{"id":2636,"date":"2009-08-31T17:43:59","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T22:43:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theoreti.ca\/?p=2636"},"modified":"2009-08-31T17:43:59","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T22:43:59","slug":"rock-afire-explosion-clip-rockafiremovie-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=2636","title":{"rendered":"Rock-afire Explosion Clip – Rockafiremovie.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shannon pointed me to The Rock-afire Explosion<\/a>, an animatronic band from the 80s that was one of the entertainments at Showbiz Pizza<\/a>. Rock-afire Explosion has been resurrected by a fan and one of the original creators of Creative Engineering<\/a> who are programming tunes and uploading video to YouTube. See, for example, Madonna’s 4 Minutes<\/a>. They take bids on New Shows to Program<\/a> at a strange and not very clear site. If you bid high enough and it isn’t “dirty” they will program the animatronic band to do a song you want. (Would they do Plato’s dialogues?)<\/p>\n

I cannot begin to describe how strangely captivating this all is. Perhaps the documentary made about it (see Rockafiremovie.com)<\/a> captures the passion. Or, for a computing perspective, see the clip about Programming the Rock-afire Explosion<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Whatever happened to animatronics? Will it make a comeback now that we all carry around smartphones that can control things?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shannon pointed me to The Rock-afire Explosion, an animatronic band from the 80s that was one of the entertainments at Showbiz Pizza. Rock-afire Explosion has been resurrected by a fan and one of the original creators of Creative Engineering who are programming tunes and uploading video to YouTube. See, for example, Madonna’s 4 Minutes. They … Continue reading Rock-afire Explosion Clip – Rockafiremovie.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,15,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-computing-and-multimedia","category-playful-or-cool","category-programming","category-streaming-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2636"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2639,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636\/revisions\/2639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}