{"id":216,"date":"2024-04-12T02:23:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T02:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/?p=216"},"modified":"2024-04-12T02:27:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T02:27:40","slug":"watch-collateral-and-the-death-of-neon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/12\/watch-collateral-and-the-death-of-neon\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8220;Collateral and the Death of Neon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2020 I wrote the article &#8220;Life and Death of Hong Kong Illegal Fa\u00e7ades&#8221; about the vanishing of Hong Kong iconic neon signs. Maybe because it was my fist academic paper, I put an spacial care on it with the valuable help of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/sonjiekennington\/\">Sonjie Kennington PhD, ATT, CELTA<\/a>. The article was quoted by some very compelling authors, most remarkably by Emily Verla Bovino in <em>Architectural Review<\/em>, and then i had to shift my focus to other tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Collateral &amp; the Death of Neon\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y51VUsotZe4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>However, today I just watched the documentary movie &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y51VUsotZe4\">Collateral and the Death of Neon<\/a>&#8221; by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WatchingtheAerial\">Jacob Floyd<\/a>, about how Cinema, street lighting and lens technology co-evolved together in Los Angeles. Collateral (2004) pioneered the use of advanced camera lens that allowed to catch the light nuances with depth-of-field sufficient to portray the seedy atmosphere of LA&#8217;s entrails. It was very nice to see my article quoted regarding the unique, intimal spatial qualities of neon tubes, as HK&#8217;s light artist Teddy Lo stated, in comparison with the parametric platitude of LED lighting. All under the visuals of Wong Kar-Wai, Blade Runner and Ghost in the Shell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Either you are returning from eastern break, or preparing for Songkran, have a nice week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2020 I wrote the article &#8220;Life and Death of Hong Kong Illegal Fa\u00e7ades&#8221; about the vanishing of Hong Kong iconic neon signs. Maybe because it was my fist academic paper, I put an spacial care on it with the valuable help of Sonjie Kennington PhD, ATT, CELTA. The article was quoted by some very &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/12\/watch-collateral-and-the-death-of-neon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Watch &#8220;Collateral and the Death of Neon&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,13,12],"class_list":["post-216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-hong-kong","tag-jacob-floyd","tag-neon","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218,"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions\/218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacogarciamoro.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}