{"id":8171,"date":"2011-06-07T00:02:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T05:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=8171"},"modified":"2026-10-13T12:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T11:05:07","slug":"joshua-fishburn-layers-machinima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=8171","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Fishburn &#8211; Layers. Machinima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/movies\/05_2011\/layers.mp4\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/wp-content\/images\/joshua_fishburn_layers.jpg\" alt=\"joshua_fishburn_layers\"\/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/dvblog.org\/movies\/05_2011\/layers.mp4\" target=\"_blank\">Layers (2007, 23 MB, 5:23 min)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Layers is a mashup narrative machinima created with footage from Metal<br \/>\nGear Solid 3: Snake Eater (PS2), Military footage from an Apache Helicopter<br \/>\nin Iraq (Public Domain\/Department of Defense), and Shadow of the Colossus<br \/>\n(PS2). Recorded almost entirely through a sniper scope from the game, it<br \/>\nextends the conversation about the relationship between increasingly<br \/>\nsophisticated military technology and the drive towards visual realism in<br \/>\nvideogames. What happens to the relationship between killer and victim<br \/>\nwhen they are separated by real and virtual distances? Adding the layer<br \/>\nof virtuality through the videogame complicates this relationship even further.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.joshfishburn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Fishburn<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Layers (2007, 23 MB, 5:23 min) &#8220;Layers is a mashup narrative machinima created with footage from Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater (PS2), Military footage from an Apache Helicopter in Iraq (Public Domain\/Department of Defense), and Shadow of the Colossus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/?p=8171\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,1,36,84,59,64,22,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-activism","category-arts","category-commerce","category-gaming","category-newmediaart","category-participatory","category-politics","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8171","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=8171"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12024,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8171\/revisions\/12024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dvblog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}