{"id":1079,"date":"2013-10-20T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2013-10-19T23:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=1079"},"modified":"2026-09-29T12:45:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T11:45:26","slug":"white-glove-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=1079","title":{"rendered":"White Glove Tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/movies\/06_2008\/whiteglove.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/\/glove.jpg\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/movies\/06_2008\/whiteglove.mp4\" target=\"_blank\">White Glove Tracking (2007, 45.5MB, 7:34)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At a televised special in March 1983, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaeljackson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Jackson<\/a><br \/>\ndebuted what would later become known as his<br \/>\nsignature <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Moonwalk_%28dance%29\" target=\"_blank\">Moonwalk<\/a>.  He wore a shiny jacket,<br \/>\ncuffed pants, and a sparkling little white glove<br \/>\nwhile gyrating around the stage.  It&#8217;s nearly<br \/>\nimpossible to deny the brilliance of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Billie_Jean\" target=\"_blank\">Billy Jean<\/a>,<br \/>\nand there it was &#8211; in some kind of larger than<br \/>\nlife, glittery manifestation of the zeitgeist.<br \/>\nAll very exciting, no?<br \/>\nBut tracking Jacko&#8217;s glove &#8211; this collection of videos<br \/>\nknown under the umbrella <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whiteglovetracking.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">White Glove Tracking<\/a> &#8211;<br \/>\nis an unparalleled feat, as are the resulting<br \/>\nremixes.  10,060 frames were tracked, the<br \/>\ndata was collectively gathered, and all of the<br \/>\nsource code was made available online.<br \/>\nCoding ensued.  Here are the highlights so far.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White Glove Tracking (2007, 45.5MB, 7:34) At a televised special in March 1983, Michael Jackson debuted what would later become known as his signature Moonwalk. He wore a shiny jacket, cuffed pants, and a sparkling little white glove while gyrating &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=1079\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,13,37,31,35,20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary-odd","category-ephemera","category-historical","category-music-video","category-remix","category-tech","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1079"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11600,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1079\/revisions\/11600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}