{"id":228,"date":"2011-07-07T00:08:12","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T05:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=228"},"modified":"2026-10-07T15:56:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T14:56:00","slug":"monument-if-it-bleeds-it-leads-caleb-larsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=228","title":{"rendered":"Monument (If it Bleeds It Leads) &#8211; Caleb Larsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/04_2007\/Monument.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><img src='http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/Monument.jpg' alt='Monument'\/><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvblog.org\/movies\/04_2007\/Monument.mp4\" target=\"_blank\">Monument (2006, 3MB, 1:53 min)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Monument, a computer program continuously scans the headlines<br \/>\nof 4,500 English-language news sources around the world, looking<br \/>\nfor people who have been reported killed. Each time it finds an article,<br \/>\nan algorithm determines the number of deaths, and instructs a ceiling-mounted<br \/>\nmechanism built from Legos to drop one yellow BB per person.<\/em><br \/>\nby <a href=\"https:\/\/greggarmstrong.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/28\/caleb-larsen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Caleb Larsen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monument (2006, 3MB, 1:53 min) Monument, a computer program continuously scans the headlines of 4,500 English-language news sources around the world, looking for people who have been reported killed. Each time it finds an article, an algorithm determines the number &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=228\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17,33,26,71,14,51,94,59,29,22,103,18,20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-community","category-conceptual","category-documentary-arts","category-exhibition","category-experimental","category-installation","category-network","category-newmediaart","category-performance","category-politics","category-processsystems","category-satire","category-tech","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11975,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/11975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}