{"id":30219,"date":"2012-04-21T20:15:04","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T20:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/retro-80s-graphics-are-sentimental-fluff-for\/"},"modified":"2012-04-21T20:15:04","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T20:15:04","slug":"retro-80s-graphics-are-sentimental-fluff-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/retro-80s-graphics-are-sentimental-fluff-for\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>retro \u201980s graphics are sentimental fluff for modern adults who grew up in front of 1980s game-console machines. Eight-bit graphics are pretty easy to carve out of styrofoam. There\u2019s a low barrier-to-entry in making sculpture from 8-bit, so that you can \u201crupture the interface between the digital and the physical.\u201d However 8-bit sculptures are a cute, backward-looking rupture.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/beyond_the_beyond\/2012\/04\/an-essay-on-the-new-aesthetic\/\">An Essay on the New Aesthetic | Beyond The Beyond | Wired.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which is also what I find so tiresome about much of indie game aesthetics today.<\/p>\n<p> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/tumblr.leapfrog.nl\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">karsalfrink<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>retro \u201980s graphics are sentimental fluff for modern adults who grew up in front of 1980s game-console machines. Eight-bit graphics are pretty easy to carve out of styrofoam. There\u2019s a low barrier-to-entry in making sculpture from 8-bit, so that you can \u201crupture the interface between the digital and the physical.\u201d However 8-bit sculptures are a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-30219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-7Rp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}