{"id":390,"date":"2008-03-20T14:58:10","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T21:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=390"},"modified":"2008-03-20T14:58:36","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T21:58:36","slug":"a-unique-short-music-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"A unique short music documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, we had the Academy Awards.  I still haven&#8217;t watched the whole thing yet, but one of these days, I plan on checking out the show, recorded for posterity on a little DVD-R.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I did catch was the presentation for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Academy_Award_for_Animated_Short_Film\">best animated short film<\/a>.  There was one nominated film that caught my attention, so I made a note to check it out later.  &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imetthewalrus.com\/\"><strong>I Met the Walrus<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; didn&#8217;t win the big prize, but it was a project that I could certainly relate to.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/pix-2008\/walrus-john.jpg\" alt=\"I Met the Walrus, OK?\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Back in 1969, a 14 year old kid named <strong>Jerry Levitan<\/strong> skipped school so he could sneak into a hotel room where he could meet his hero <strong>John Lennon<\/strong>, who was in Toronto with <strong>Yoko Ono<\/strong> to promote the cause of peace. He brought in a tape recorder, and was able to conduct a interview with John for about 40 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Many years later, Jerry hooked up with director <strong>Josh Raskin<\/strong>, illustrators <strong>James Braithwaite<\/strong> and  <strong>Alex Kurina<\/strong> to create a unique little animated short film that used 5 minutes of the Lennon interview to tell the story of his meeting with this musical legend.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily you can obtain a copy of this project by purchasing a $1.99 download at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/itunes\/\">iTunes<\/a>.  As a big fan of Lennon, I really enjoyed this program, and encourage others to check it out.<\/p>\n<p>You can read more about this project, and watch a quick trailer at<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imetthewalrus.com\/\">Imetthewalrus.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few weeks ago, we had the Academy Awards. I still haven&#8217;t watched the whole thing yet, but one of these days, I plan on checking out the show, recorded for posterity&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentaries","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}