{"id":11534,"date":"2008-09-05T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-05T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/05\/ela-in-love-at-first-byte\/"},"modified":"2008-09-05T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-05T14:01:00","slug":"ela-in-love-at-first-byte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/05\/ela-in-love-at-first-byte\/","title":{"rendered":"ELA in &#8220;Love at First Byte&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m almost at a loss to try and explain this one.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peppermelon.tv\/projects\/ela.html\" target=\"_blank\">ELA in <i>Love at First Byte<\/i><\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vimeo.com\/1456640\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Vimeo<\/i> video link<\/a>) is a mesmerizingly craptacular live-action\/animated short film.  Here&rsquo;s the pitch:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Invasion! E.L.A. is a young girl in love back in home planet Earth. But the power of her love is too big to be limited to solely one being. An extremely bizarre love triangle unravels an invasion of epic proportions, and E.L.A. is set on an adventure to save planet Earth from the evil claws of Havra the Merciless!! Will she succeed on such risky endeavor? What\u00b4s the secret weapon that will help her defend us all from utter evilness and total destruction? It\u00b4s up to us to find out, on this high-paced special-effects driven adventure ride through space, low compression rates, pixels and love.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Is it just me, or is the opening reminiscent of the <i>He-Man<\/i>\/<i>She-Ra<\/i> cartoons from the &lsquo;80s?  Check it out; it&rsquo;s so bad it&rsquo;s good&hellip; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<div class=\"byline\">[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/74516\/Love-At-First-Byte\" title=\"via MetaFilter\" target=\"_blank\">via<\/a>]<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"tags\">tags: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/video\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/80s\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">80s<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/nostalgia\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">nostalgia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/driko\/wtf\" rel=\"tag\" target=\"_blank\">wtf<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-8539335941401980128?l=www.driko.org\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&rsquo;m almost at a loss to try and explain this one. ELA in Love at First Byte (Vimeo video link) is a mesmerizingly craptacular live-action\/animated short film. Here&rsquo;s the pitch: Invasion! E.L.A. is a young girl in love back in home planet Earth. But the power of her love is too big to be limited &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2008\/09\/05\/ela-in-love-at-first-byte\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;ELA in &#8220;Love at First Byte&#8221;&#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":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-11534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}