{"id":282,"date":"2008-12-18T11:11:11","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T19:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/?p=282"},"modified":"2024-02-11T11:06:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T19:06:21","slug":"pontificating-on-pizza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/press-releases\/2008\/pontificating-on-pizza","title":{"rendered":"Pontificating on Pizza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Mountain View, CA) &#8211; Last month, privacy buffs, futurists, and Internet meme-followers were finally given a behind-the-scenes view of the creation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/news\/privacy-technology\/aclus-pizza-video-10-years-later\">ACLU&#8217;s Pizza Surveillance video<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The Sceptical Futuryst, a blog sketching out the ideas and impacts possible in future scenarios, ran an interview with video director Micah Laaker entitled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/futuryst.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/surveillance-supreme.html\">Surveillance Supreme<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The interview centers around the backstory of the animation, which continues to win awards and praise 4 years after its creation. It has made its way around of various film festivals (particularly <a href=\"https:\/\/resfest.com\/program.php?program=EVERYTHING+UNDER+THE+SUN%3A+FILMMAKING+WITH+A+PURPOSE&#038;selected=PIZZA+SURVEILLANCE+FEATURE\">resfest|10<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediathatmattersfest.org\/5\/\">Media That Matters 5<\/a>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/weblog.infoworld.com\/udell\/2005\/02\/01.html\">online memes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The video can be viewed below, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JMCjnZyU1Lg\">YouTube<\/a>, or on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/news\/privacy-technology\/aclus-pizza-video-10-years-later\">ACLU site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"400\" height=\"330\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JMCjnZyU1Lg\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JMCjnZyU1Lg\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"400\" height=\"330\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Laaker has created a number of interactive media for the ACLU aside from the Pizza video, including their <a href=\"javascript:void%20window.open('https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/interactive\/100greatest\/interface.html','AddrBook',%20'width=575,height=475,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menuBar=no,scrollBars=no,resizable=no,left=0,top=0')\">100 Greatest Hits<\/a>, <a href=\"javascript:void%20window.open('https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/interactive\/0303a\/','AddrBook',%20'width=580,height=460,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menuBar=no,scrollBars=no,resizable=no')\">Major Supreme Court Decisions on Women&#8217;s Rights<\/a>, and the <a href=\"javascript:void%20window.open('https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/\/multimedia\/OPPflash.html','','scrollBars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no,directories=no,width=440,height=420')\">Katrina Aftermath at Orleans Parish Prison<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Mountain View, CA) &#8211; Last month, privacy buffs, futurists, and Internet meme-followers were finally given a behind-the-scenes view of the creation of the ACLU&#8217;s Pizza Surveillance video. The Sceptical Futuryst, a blog sketching out the ideas and impacts possible in future scenarios, ran an interview with video director Micah Laaker entitled &#8220;Surveillance Supreme.&#8221; The interview [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[142,30,143,144,378],"class_list":["post-282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-aclu","tag-interview","tag-pizza","tag-privacy","tag-surveillance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laaker.com\/micah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}