{"id":12028,"date":"2009-12-01T15:40:06","date_gmt":"2009-12-01T23:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12028"},"modified":"2009-12-01T15:40:14","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T23:40:14","slug":"james-camerons-surfing-avatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12028","title":{"rendered":"James Cameron&#8217;s Surfing Avatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DIR_cameron.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DIR_cameron.jpg','popup','width=250,height=167,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/DIR_cameron-tm.jpg\" height=\"133\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Dir Cameron\" \/><\/a><strong><em>Titanic<\/em><\/strong> director <strong>James Cameron<\/strong> has a new film coming out that could be one of the biggest flops ever. It&#8217;s called <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avatarmovie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Avatar<\/a><\/em><\/strong> and when he talks about his sci-fi hybrid he gets all surfy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s an analogy I like to use: The surfer doesn&#8217;t make the wave, the surfer surfs the wave, and he has to know when the wave&#8217;s coming \u2014 and a good surfer senses the wave from far out and knows that it&#8217;s that wave, not this wave. You let other forces, other filmmakers, market forces, generate the wave of energy \u2014 in this case, I&#8217;m talking about the energy in CG development.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In Hollywood the surf is apparently up.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.variety.com\/article\/VR1118012017.html?categoryId=3826&amp;cs=1\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Titanic director James Cameron has a new film coming out that could be one of the biggest flops ever. It&#8217;s called Avatar and when he talks about his sci-fi hybrid he gets all surfy. There&#8217;s an analogy I like to use: The surfer doesn&#8217;t make the wave, the surfer surfs the wave, and he has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,9,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12028"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12028"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12029,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12028\/revisions\/12029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}