{"id":1298,"date":"2003-08-28T16:52:02","date_gmt":"2003-08-28T20:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2003\/08\/28\/rock-animation-unexpected-hit\/"},"modified":"2003-08-28T16:52:02","modified_gmt":"2003-08-28T20:52:02","slug":"rock-animation-unexpected-hit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/28\/rock-animation-unexpected-hit\/","title":{"rendered":"Rock Animation Unexpected Hit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a817'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td width=\"200\">\n<div align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/\ntune3.jpg\" width=\"184\" height=\"210\"> <\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"10\">\n<p>\n      <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"313\">\n<p>Brothers Matt and Mike Chapman tried to make it big in<br \/>\n        indie rock, and failed. So the brothers turned to Flash animation and<br \/>\n        created a Web site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.homestarrunner.com\">www.homestarrunner.com<\/a>, that is a 180-degree turn<br \/>\n        from the world of indie rock <\/p>\n<p>Its influences are not the Velvet Underground, Big Star and the Stooges<br \/>\n        but &quot;Peanuts&quot; cartoons, Japanese anime and Atari video games.<br \/>\n        But Matt, 26, and Mike, 29, have<br \/>\n        unexpectedly found themselves embraced by the musicians they admire.<br \/>\n        The site, started in January 2000, is visited by some 300,000 people<br \/>\n      every week.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2003\/08\/28\/arts\/music\/28POPL.html?ex=1377403200&amp;en=f7d422e653648f25&amp;ei=5007&amp;partner=USERLAND\">from<br \/>\n            the New York Times<\/a><\/strong>\n      <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brothers Matt and Mike Chapman tried to make it big in indie rock, and failed. So the brothers turned to Flash animation and created a Web site, www.homestarrunner.com, that is a 180-degree turn from the world of indie rock Its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2003\/08\/28\/rock-animation-unexpected-hit\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}