{"id":14107,"date":"2010-03-17T14:27:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T22:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=14107"},"modified":"2010-03-17T20:40:55","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T03:40:55","slug":"the-book-of-kells-animated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/14107","title":{"rendered":"The Book of Kells, animated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/SecretOfKells.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8216;Your eye travels over Celtic crosses and through forest glades, studies architectural schematics and drinks in delicately washed landscapes &nbsp;. . .&nbsp; And it is only fitting that a movie concerned with the power and beauty of drawing &#8211; the almost sacred magic of color and line &#8211; should be so gorgeously and intricately drawn.&#8217; &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/movies.nytimes.com\/2010\/03\/05\/movies\/05secret.html\">A. O. Scott, NY Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Secret of Kells,<\/em> which premiered last year in Berlin, has been quietly gaining attention on the festival circuit, racking up <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Secret_of_Kells\">awards<\/a> &#8211; as well as an Oscar nomination for Best Animated Film. (tho &#8211; Disney&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9MSVaOfZcnU\">Up<\/a><\/em> won the statue)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/SecretOfKells3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The film is the story of Brendan, a 12-year-old who &#8211; in 9th century Ireland &#8211; discovers the beauty of art and sets out on a life&#8217;s journey to complete work on <em><a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/14095\">The Book of Kells.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/SecretOfKells2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Official website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesecretofkells.com\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a> Filmmakers&#8217; blog <a href=\"http:\/\/theblogofkells.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here.<\/a> Facebook <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SecretOfKells\" target=\"_blank\">fan page.<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>The film is still in limited release, <em>slooowwly <\/em>making the <a href=\"http:\/\/theblogofkells.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/us-release-notes-from-gkids.html\"target=\"_blank\">art theatre circuit.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"250\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lw2_HZTuQBE&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/lw2_HZTuQBE&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<em>Early promotional trailer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"250\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ptXbPEHLwDs&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/ptXbPEHLwDs&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<em>Final US trailer<\/em><\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"The Book of Kells, animated \" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/14107\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Your eye travels over Celtic crosses and through forest glades, studies architectural schematics and drinks in delicately washed landscapes &nbsp;. . .&nbsp; And it is only fitting that a movie concerned with the power and beauty of drawing &#8211; the almost sacred magic of color and line &#8211; should be so gorgeously and intricately drawn.&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,54,49,51,125],"tags":[26,126,123],"class_list":["post-14107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-design-history","category-education","category-illustration","category-music","tag-cinema","tag-education","tag-illustration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14107"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14451,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14107\/revisions\/14451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}