{"id":711,"date":"2023-03-02T23:59:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/?p=711"},"modified":"2023-03-09T10:21:46","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T15:21:46","slug":"godland-thursday-march-2nd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/02\/godland-thursday-march-2nd\/","title":{"rendered":"Godland. Watch the birdie."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/lucas.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-726\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The advent of the smartphone has put an extremely capable camera in many of our pockets. This has enabled an great amount of creativity to blossom, while at the same time proliferating an abundance of mundane imagery. &#8220;Everybody&#8217;s a photographer these days!&#8221; as they say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Well&#8230; turning the clock back to the late nineteenth century, photography wasn&#8217;t easy at all, and creative expression was often not part of the craft. Lucas, the Danish priest dispatched to Iceland to build a church is obsessed with photography, but (often comically) wouldn&#8217;t know a good picture if it slapped him in his stoically dopey face. For example, the playful younger sister tried so hard to help him take a good picture, but&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/pony1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-720\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">First pose offered<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/pony2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-721\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Second pose offered<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/pony3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-722\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Third pose offered<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Pony4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-723\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">And then she gave up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And the horse gave up too, and walked away before he could get a picture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a gorgeous film, and we enjoyed a good turnout tonight. NewScreen continues to shine!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt19623228\/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"44\" height=\"20\" src=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/imdb.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The advent of the smartphone has put an extremely capable camera in many of our pockets. This has enabled an great amount of creativity to blossom, while at the same time proliferating an abundance of mundane imagery. &#8220;Everybody&#8217;s a photographer these days!&#8221; as they say. Well&#8230; turning the clock back to the late nineteenth century, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/2023\/03\/02\/godland-thursday-march-2nd\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Godland. Watch the birdie.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movies","category-newscreen-stuff","category-trailers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":729,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions\/729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newscreen.richardlohr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}