{"id":9,"date":"2009-09-11T08:06:32","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T14:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2010-09-08T21:12:55","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T03:12:55","slug":"fatale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/2009\/09\/fatale\/","title":{"rendered":"Salome: Fatale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/takayoshi-sato_salome.jpg\" alt=\"Salome, by Takayoshi Sato\" title=\"Salome, by Takayoshi Sato\" width=\"500\" height=\"808\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/takayoshi-sato_salome.jpg 500w, https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/takayoshi-sato_salome-185x300.jpg 185w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Salome<\/em>, as interpreted by artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.satoworks.com\/\">Takayoshi Sato<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/tale-of-tales.com\/Fatale\/\">Fatale<\/a>, &#8220;an interactive vignette in realtime 3D based on the story of Salome, particularly the play by Oscar Wilde.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Beautiful work, very much to my taste. <\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offworld.com\/2009\/09\/one-shot-silent-hill-artist-ta.html\">Offworld<\/a>; see also <a href=\"http:\/\/offworld.com\/2009\/06\/femme-fatale-graveyard-path-cr.html\">Femme Fatale: Graveyard, Path creators taking on Wilde&#8217;s Salom\u00e9<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s got art &#8212; it&#8217;s got sex &#8212; it&#8217;s got death &#8212; what more do you want in a game??<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/148px-Gustav_Klimt_038.jpg\" alt=\"Salome, by Gustav Klimt\" title=\"Salome, by Gustav Klimt\" width=\"148\" height=\"597\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"5\" class=\"alignnright size-full wp-image-13\" srcset=\"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/148px-Gustav_Klimt_038.jpg 148w, https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/148px-Gustav_Klimt_038-74x300.jpg 74w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 148px) 100vw, 148px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Also to my taste, the work of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gustav_Klimt\">Gustav Klimt<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Right: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Gustav_Klimt_038.jpg\">Salome<\/a> (with the head of John the Baptist)<\/em> by Klimt.<\/p>\n<p><em>Salome<\/em> has been widely interpreted, in various media &#8212; painting, sculpture, drama, literature, dance, film, and now interactive computer games &#8212; for &#8230; how long now?  Two millenia, three? <\/p>\n<p>Such is the power of Eternal She!<\/p>\n<p>The eternal things change forms, but the underlying substance remains the same.  <\/p>\n<p>Or perhaps the reverse is true &#8230;?<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Update May 15, 2010:<\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/handyvandal.com\/2010\/05\/human-revolution\/\">Deus Ex meets Icarus<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salome, as interpreted by artist Takayoshi Sato for Fatale, &#8220;an interactive vignette in realtime 3D based on the story of Salome, particularly the play by Oscar Wilde.&#8221; Beautiful work, very much to my taste. Via Offworld; see also Femme Fatale: Graveyard, Path creators taking on Wilde&#8217;s Salom\u00e9. It&#8217;s got art &#8212; it&#8217;s got sex &#8212; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1365,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions\/1365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/handyvandal.com\/wphv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}