{"id":7080,"date":"2014-02-28T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=7080"},"modified":"2014-09-06T14:47:20","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T20:47:20","slug":"iow-artsy-still-is-stylish-thrill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=7080","title":{"rendered":"IOW: Artsy STILL is stylish thrill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It\u2019s no error, dearest readers, for indeed we have a second \u201c<strong>Image of the Week<\/strong>\u201d to share with you between last Saturday and the next!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Our lovely friend <strong>Megan Johns<\/strong>, with her mysterious breath of a voice and offbeat orchestration in her song craft, has just released the fourth music video to be coupled with a track from <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a title=\"Megan Johns :: Bandcamp\" href=\"http:\/\/meganjohns.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">her 2012 self-release, <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hey, Lonely<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span>. Staged in the performance space behind the all-ages indie shop <strong>Error Records<\/strong> on south <strong>Neil Street<\/strong> in <strong>Champaign<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a title=\"Megan Johns\u2019 video for the song \u201cStill\u201d released :: Smile Politely\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smilepolitely.com\/splog\/megan_johns_video_for_the_song_still_released\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">according to <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Smile Politely<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span>, this exercise in low-budget chiaroscuro was produced by <strong>Sam Ambler<\/strong> and <strong>Matt HarsH<\/strong>, who also <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a title=\"Belatedly hitting a BURNT beat :: C-U Blogfidential\" href=\"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=970\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">did the honors for Johns\u2019 \u201c<strong>The Beat Was Burnt<\/strong>\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/span> some time ago, and shot by area photographer <strong>Mark Spomer<\/strong>. Appearing with Johns to perform &#8220;<strong>Still<\/strong>&#8221; is <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a title=\"Moonwish @ Facebook\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/moonwishmusic\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">backing band <strong>Moonwish<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/span> featuring <strong>James Treichler<\/strong> on drums, <strong>Dave Cohen<\/strong> on bass, and <strong>Sara Sasaki<\/strong> on violin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">At this rate of tenaciousness, Johns might end up with a complete video companion to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Hey, Lonely<\/span> by the time she releases a new music album! Half the cuts have now been adapted for this <strong>YouTube<\/strong> world including <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a title=\"IOW: Musical Menagerie Treat! :: C-U Blogfidential\" href=\"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/?p=5637\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201c<strong>Sunday Drive<\/strong>,\u201d a hazy afternoon dream<\/span><\/a><\/span> harnessed by <strong>Garrick Nelson<\/strong>, <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><a title=\"&quot;Hey, Lonely&quot; by Megan Johns @ YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/AmrUTugnP2s\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u201c<strong>Hey, Lonely<\/strong>,\u201d an intimate DSLR solo portrait<\/span><\/a><\/span> painted by Treichler, and \u201cThe Beat Was Burnt,\u201d a monochrome murder ballad set aboard a train.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">~ Jason Pankoke<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><object width=\"450\" height=\"253\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/USNr1pJRXR4?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"450\" height=\"253\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/USNr1pJRXR4?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the \u201cImages of the Week\u201d Dept.: Melodic with shades of melancholy, &#8220;Still&#8221; is the most recent song by Megan Johns and Moonwish to receive the music video treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,29,20],"tags":[1196,202,226,1195,201,1194],"class_list":["post-7080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images-du-cu","category-music-video","category-videos-du-c-u","tag-hey-lonely","tag-matt-harsh","tag-megan-johns","tag-moonwish","tag-sam-ambler","tag-still"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.micro-film-magazine.com\/cublog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}