{"id":1114,"date":"2015-03-30T20:41:23","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T03:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2015-03-30T20:41:23","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T03:41:23","slug":"something-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/something-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Something New"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VAJXkZ0WB_o\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s something different: I have a new job! Today was my first day at Google Spotlight Stories. I&#8217;ll be working with some amazing filmmakers and technologists who are busy inventing a new kind of narrative visual storytelling uniquely suited to handheld mobile devices. If that sounds crazy, that&#8217;s because it is. It&#8217;s my kind of crazy. It&#8217;s exactly the kind of wild, inventive, &#8220;let&#8217;s try this and see what happens&#8221; attitude that got me interested in computer graphics in the first place, all those years ago. I couldn&#8217;t be more excited.<\/p>\n<p>The video above really does a great job of capturing the delight of experiencing one of these stories for the first time. It&#8217;s almost impossible not to grin like a ninny. There&#8217;s not much more I can say about it right now, but there&#8217;s been some <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/10\/29\/google-motorola-spotlight-stories\/\" target=\"_blank\">terrific<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/backchannel\/google-taps-hollywood-a-list-for-360-interactive-short-b36e7fb35b5f\" target=\"_blank\">press<\/a> about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ew.com\/article\/2015\/03\/23\/glen-keane-duet?hootPostID=4c1fe96ba4738ac9f5ed293c56675817\" target=\"_blank\">projects<\/a> they&#8217;ve created so far. I&#8217;ll share more when I can!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something different: I have a new job! Today was my first day at Google Spotlight Stories. I&#8217;ll be working with some amazing filmmakers and technologists who are busy inventing a new kind of narrative visual storytelling uniquely suited to handheld mobile devices. If that sounds crazy, that&#8217;s because it is. It&#8217;s my kind of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/something-new\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Something New<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9,123,83,17,22],"tags":[137,138],"class_list":["post-1114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animation","category-fun","category-graphics","category-interactive","category-personal","category-self-reference","tag-google","tag-spotlight-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1114"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1120,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1114\/revisions\/1120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}