{"id":308,"date":"2008-03-14T11:13:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-14T01:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/storylabs.us\/lamp\/2008\/03\/14\/a-machinima-great-passes\/"},"modified":"2008-03-14T17:14:53","modified_gmt":"2008-03-14T07:14:53","slug":"a-machinima-great-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storylabs.us\/lamp\/a-machinima-great-passes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Machinima great passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/storylabs.us\/lamp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/peterras_bw.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Rasmussen\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/>Sad news this week for all those who knew him and his work, well known Australian writer\/director Peter Rasmussen has passed away. He was a friend of many on the LAMP team who knew him as a pioneer in the field of machinima. Peter wrote the Australian feature films &#8220;In the Winter Dark&#8221; and &#8220;Mad Bomber in Love&#8221; &amp; wrote and directed &#8220;The Picture Woman&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years he gained an international reputation as a leading machinima film maker and his films &#8220;Killer Robot&#8221; and &#8220;Stolen Life&#8221; (co produced with Jackie Turnure) won multiple awards. Peter will be remembered as a fearless pioneer of new forms and will be sadly missed. Tributes to Peter can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/machinimafordummies.com\/articles\/2008\/03\/12\/rip-peter-rasmussen\" title=\"Machinima for dummies\">Machinimafordummies<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ihatesheep.co.uk\/articles\/2008\/03\/12\/peter-rassmussen\" title=\"I Hate Sheep\">ihatesheep<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/eyeswiredopen.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/peter-rasmussen.html\" title=\"Eyes Wired Open\">eyeswiredopen<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/sydney.siggraph.org.au\/vc-blog\/2008\/march-08\" title=\"Sydney SIGGRAPH\">Sydney SIGGRAPH<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sad news this week for all those who knew him and his work, well known Australian writer\/director Peter Rasmussen has passed away. He was a friend of many on the LAMP team who knew him as a pioneer in the field of machinima. Peter wrote the Australian feature films &#8220;In the Winter Dark&#8221; and &#8220;Mad [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,64,65],"tags":[288,1771,72,826,1772,1501],"class_list":["post-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-machinima","category-news","category-personal","tag-jackie-turnure","tag-killer-robot","tag-lamp","tag-peter-rasmussen","tag-stolen-life","tag-writer-director"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storylabs.us\/lamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storylabs.us\/lamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storylabs.us\/lamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storylabs.us\/lamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storylabs.us\/lamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storylabs.us\/lamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storylabs.us\/lamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storylabs.us\/lamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storylabs.us\/lamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}