{"id":307,"date":"2007-04-20T15:49:10","date_gmt":"2007-04-20T10:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2007\/04\/20\/this-close-to-being-semi-mainstream\/"},"modified":"2007-04-20T15:49:10","modified_gmt":"2007-04-20T10:19:10","slug":"this-close-to-being-semi-mainstream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2007\/04\/20\/this-close-to-being-semi-mainstream\/","title":{"rendered":"This Close to Being Semi-Mainstream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/indiauncut.com\/iublog\/article\/music-video-20-voice-by-pentagram\/\">Pentagram asked fans to make a music video for their single <span style=\"font-style: italic\">Voice<\/span><\/a>. They finally went with a montage of 26 different videos. One of the videos that they liked but didn&#8217;t use was Varun Agarwal&#8217;s anti-reservations video. Why is this important? Check out the video. Specifically, check out the frame 2 minutes and 32 seconds into the video.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aCgIdKt43Dk\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Woah. <em>I<\/em> took that slightly blurry picture of Lady Hardinge Medical College students back in April, when I went and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2006\/04\/17\/photoblogging-a-protest-march\/\">photographed one of the first reservations protest marches<\/a>. Check it out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/aadisht\/127525518\/\" title=\"Photo Sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/46\/127525518_a2d704b110.jpg?w=450\" alt=\"LHMC shows up\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Damn. I was <span style=\"font-style: italic\">this<\/span> close to being in a Pentagram video. Well, not exactly being in a Pentagram video, but having my intellectual property in one. Oh well. Such is life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pentagram asked fans to make a music video for their single Voice. They finally went with a montage of 26 different videos. One of the videos that they liked but didn&#8217;t use was Varun Agarwal&#8217;s anti-reservations video. Why is this important? Check out the video. Specifically, check out the frame 2 minutes and 32 seconds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-4X","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}