{"id":9648,"date":"2022-11-04T23:13:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T03:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/?p=9648"},"modified":"2023-01-26T23:00:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-27T04:00:08","slug":"robot-tells-the-story-of-the-rich-young-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2022\/11\/robot-tells-the-story-of-the-rich-young-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot tells the story of the Rich Young Man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A decade ago, a small software company called XtraNormal allowed you to make free animated videos online. You&#8217;d choose a character, input some text, pick a few gestures, and the software would do the rest, posting the final video on Youtube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought this was a great idea. I started out with a video of a robot telling the story from the Gospel of Thomas, ch. 97, the parable of the empty jar. Then I did a video of a robot telling the story of the rich young man from the Gospel of Mark, ch. 10. By the time I thought about it again, XtraNormal had stopped giving away their services, and had converted everything to Windows-only software. I wouldn&#8217;t have minded buying their software, but I&#8217;d be damned if I&#8217;d buy a Windows machine just to run their software. So I only made those two videos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I never posted the second video on my blog, so here it is, ten years late:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Robot tells the story of the Rich Young Man\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/767503647?h=0f4fc10884&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>(Note that I moved this video, and <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/767503264\">the first video<\/a>, from Youtube to Vimeo. During the move, I improved the audio a little, and tightened up the editing a bit.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A decade ago, a small software company called XtraNormal allowed you to make free animated videos online. You&#8217;d choose a character, input some text, pick a few gestures, and the software would do the rest, posting the final video on Youtube. I thought this was a great idea. I started out with a video of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/2022\/11\/robot-tells-the-story-of-the-rich-young-man\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Robot tells the story of the Rich Young Man&#8221;<\/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":[84],"tags":[19,859],"class_list":["post-9648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-media","tag-jesus-of-nazareth","tag-socialism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9649,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9648\/revisions\/9649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/yauu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}