{"id":132,"date":"2008-04-23T19:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-24T03:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=132"},"modified":"2008-04-23T19:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T03:30:00","slug":"audio-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=132","title":{"rendered":"Audio Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Blindsight<\/i> is coming out as an audiobook from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recordedbooks.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=rb.show_prod&amp;book_id=78840&amp;prod_id=DF003\">Recorded Books<\/a>; check out the cover art by Leonard Likas (\u00a9 Recorded Books, LLC):<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/BlindsightAB.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/rifters.com\/real\/uploaded_images\/BlindsightAB.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Notice anything unusual for a Watts-type book?  Notice anything unusual for a story set a half light-year from the nearest star, set in the dark and shadowy borderlands of interstellar space?<\/p>\n<p>Notice the rich, radiant colors? WTF?<\/p>\n<p>Well, Leonard took his lead from the synesthesiac&#8217;s eye.  There&#8217;s a brief scene near the end of <i>Blindsight<\/i> where we get a hint of what Sarasti or Michelle might see if they looked outside, and it&#8217;s <i>beautiful<\/i>.  So&#8217;s this artwork:  an inventive departure from the usual dark, glum Wattsiness, and a nice addition to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/real\/gallery.htm\">Gallery.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blindsight is coming out as an audiobook from Recorded Books; check out the cover art by Leonard Likas (\u00a9 Recorded Books, LLC): Notice anything unusual for a Watts-type book? Notice anything unusual for a story set a half light-year from the nearest star, set in the dark and shadowy borderlands of interstellar space? Notice the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ink-on-art","category-writing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}