{"id":1254,"date":"2008-09-04T18:47:58","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T08:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/09\/04\/another-lost-bird\/"},"modified":"2008-09-04T18:49:03","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T08:49:03","slug":"another-lost-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/09\/04\/another-lost-bird\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Lost Bird?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the instigation of <a href=\"http:\/\/giantmonstersattack.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mysterious Pants<\/a>, the Backbrain scouted out <strong>Attack of the Giant Gull<\/strong> (US\/Canada-2002; dir. Jonathan M. Parisen), which does appear on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0291737\/\" target=\"_blank\">Internet Movie Database<\/a> as a video release, though no release date is actually given.<\/p>\n<p>After a bit of a search, I found a conceptual poster mock-up that was done for the film by Shawn L. Fratis:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/gullposter.jpg\" title=\"Attack of the Giant Gull poster\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/gullposter.jpg\" alt=\"Attack of the Giant Gull poster\" height=\"390\" width=\"443\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fratis is a digital artist who &#8220;created many models and test shots&#8221; for the film, &#8220;including fire\/explosion effects&#8221;. He also did &#8220;effects and animations of the giant seagull attacking New York&#8221;. [<a href=\"http:\/\/members.cox.net\/sfratis\/index_files\/page02.htm\" target=\"_blank\">ref<\/a>] In his resume, he lists the film as an &#8220;uncompleted project&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some test SFX shots [<a href=\"http:\/\/members.cox.net\/sfratis\/index_files\/page03.htm\" target=\"_blank\">ref<\/a>]:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/gulltest.jpg\" title=\"Attack of the Giant Gull test shots\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/gulltest.jpg\" title=\"Attack of the Giant Gull test shots\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/gulltest.jpg\" alt=\"Attack of the Giant Gull test shots\" height=\"499\" width=\"438\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This independent film is listed as being produced by Parivision Entertainment. I think it fair to say that it was a low-budget project that may or may not have been completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the instigation of Mysterious Pants, the Backbrain scouted out Attack of the Giant Gull (US\/Canada-2002; dir. Jonathan M. Parisen), which does appear on the Internet Movie Database as a video release, though no release date is actually given. After &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2008\/09\/04\/another-lost-bird\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,44,65],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}