{"id":3361,"date":"2009-07-12T18:39:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T07:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=3361"},"modified":"2009-07-13T08:13:51","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T21:13:51","slug":"recycling-images-the-control-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/07\/12\/recycling-images-the-control-master\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycling Images: The Control Master"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is something unique and beautiful. It&#8217;s a short animated film that uses images inspired by mid-20th century advertising art and magazine illustration &#8212; a wealth of iconic American pop modernism &#8212; all created by and available from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veer.com\/products\/gallery.aspx?gallery=1813\" target=\"_blank\">CSA Images<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The short is called <em><strong>The Control Master<\/strong><\/em> (directed by Run Wrake) and it wordlessly creates a two-dimensional world in which a mad scientist steals a super<em>femme<\/em>&#8216;s size-manipulation device and uses it on himself to create havoc through Halftone City, USA. The film contains giant madman on a rampage, airforce attacks, form transmogrification, rayguns, spaceships, lunar colonies, superheroes and tragedy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Halftone City, USA. A peaceful metropolis of family values and space-age dreams. Mild-mannered blonde Dorothy Gayne secretly protects its citizens from harm. But dangerous new technologies abound. What happens when a powerful device falls into the hands of scientist-turned-villain Doctor Moire? Who will rescue Halftone City from this oversized creep? (<a href=\"http:\/\/ideas.veer.com\/features\/controlmaster\" target=\"_blank\">Official website<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/control-master01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3366\" title=\"control-master01\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/control-master01.jpg\" alt=\"control-master01\" width=\"460\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/control-master01.jpg 1283w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/control-master01-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/control-master01-1024x573.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/control-master02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3367\" title=\"control-master02\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/control-master02.jpg\" alt=\"control-master02\" width=\"460\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/control-master02.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/control-master02-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/control-master02-1024x572.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/control-master03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3368\" title=\"control-master03\" src=\"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/control-master03.jpg\" alt=\"control-master03\" width=\"460\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/control-master03.jpg 1279w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/control-master03-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/control-master03-1024x574.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch <em>The Control Master <\/em>embedded below:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"320\" height=\"260\" data=\"http:\/\/www.roberthood.net\/flv\/mediaplayer.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"file=http:\/\/www.roberthood.net\/movies\/controlmaster_480p_mp4.flv\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.roberthood.net\/flv\/mediaplayer.swf\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>If you want to download the film and watch it full-size (which I recommend as it looks great!), click <a href=\"http:\/\/images.veer.com\/img\/download\/controlmaster_720p_mp4.flv\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Watching it <a href=\"http:\/\/ideas.veer.com\/features\/controlmaster\" target=\"_blank\">on-site<\/a> will in any case give you a bigger image. In either case you&#8217;ll need Flash 9. If your connection is slow, the Veer website has a smaller version <a href=\"http:\/\/images.veer.com\/img\/download\/controlmaster_480p_mp4.flv\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/ideas.veer.com\/features\/controlmaster\" target=\"_blank\">Veer<\/a>. Thanks for finding it, Avery!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is something unique and beautiful. It&#8217;s a short animated film that uses images inspired by mid-20th century advertising art and magazine illustration &#8212; a wealth of iconic American pop modernism &#8212; all created by and available from CSA Images. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/07\/12\/recycling-images-the-control-master\/\">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":[38,4,44,91,30],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361"}],"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=3361"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3376,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3361\/revisions\/3376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}