{"id":3238,"date":"2010-03-02T01:10:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T06:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/?p=3238"},"modified":"2010-08-07T21:59:26","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T02:59:26","slug":"featured-video-apricot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/featured-video-apricot\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Video: Apricot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><object width=\"360\" height=\"203\"><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8076064&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;show_title=0&amp;show_byline=0&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff&amp;fullscreen=1\" \/><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tended to use the Featured Video space for music videos and the occasional trailer lately, but highlighting quality short films and stuff like that was my initial thought when I created it. I need to work on getting back to that (by, like, watching more short films online), and this is a great place to start. I found <em>Apricot<\/em> while killing time on Vimeo this morning, and fell in love with it &#8211; really strong acting, gorgeous cinematography, and a subtle story all contributing. Director Ben Briand has several Australian commercials and short films in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benbriand.com\/splash\/index.htm\">portfolio<\/a>; hopefully we&#8217;ll see some features before too long. Because this is simply a fantastic short.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve tended to use the Featured Video space for music videos and the occasional trailer lately, but highlighting quality short films and stuff like that was my initial thought when I created it. I need to work on getting back to that (by, like, watching more short films online), and this is a great place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[1893,1894],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3206,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/featured-video-the-endless-night-a-valentine-to-film-noir\/","url_meta":{"origin":3238,"position":0},"title":"Featured Video: The Endless Night &#8211; A Valentine to Film Noir","author":"Jandy","date":"January 26, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to Bob over at Row Three for bringing this little gem of a video to my attention. 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