{"id":4571,"date":"2016-01-15T15:16:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T15:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2016spring1\/?p=4571"},"modified":"2016-01-15T15:44:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T15:44:18","slug":"community-engagement-helping-bust-illegal-whale-hunting-irene-alvarado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2016spring1\/community-engagement-helping-bust-illegal-whale-hunting-irene-alvarado\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Racing Extinction&#8221; by Louie Psihoyos and Travis Threlkel (2015)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team of artists and environmentalists, led by\u00a0Louie Psihoyos and Travis Threlkel helped bust a L.A. restaurant called Hump for serving whale meat. They used a\u00a015,000-lumen video projector mounted on a retractable steel frame that can extend and pivot in any direction\u00a0to show the image of a whale in front of the restaurant for a number of days. Soon enough, restaurant patrons\u00a0stopped eating at Hump and complaining to the city. Soon enough,\u00a0the business had to shut down.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/mf-racingext-whalecar-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top: 72px;\"><iframe title=\"Video: Animals on the Empire State Building\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/video\/players\/offsite\/index.html?videoId=100000003832703\" style=\"border: 0; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute;\" allowfullscreen scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">window.addEventListener(\"message\",function(e){\n                window.parent.postMessage(e.data,\"*\");\n            },false);<\/script><\/p>\n<p>This is the same team involved in projecting images of endangered animals on the empire state building.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2015\/07\/31\/movies\/DOCUMENTARY-EMPIRE-STATE-slide-53TT\/DOCUMENTARY-EMPIRE-STATE-slide-53TT-jumbo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"593\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For a video go to:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/31\/movies\/illuminating-the-plight-of-endangered-species-at-the-empire-state-building.html?_r=0\">http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/07\/31\/movies\/illuminating-the-plight-of-endangered-species-at-the-empire-state-building.html?_r=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other links:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/11\/racing-extinction-louis-psihoyos\/\">http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/11\/racing-extinction-louis-psihoyos\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of artists and environmentalists, led by\u00a0Louie Psihoyos and Travis Threlkel helped bust a L.A. restaurant called Hump for serving whale meat. They used a\u00a015,000-lumen video projector mounted on a retractable steel frame that can extend and pivot in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":4590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[211],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2016spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2016spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2016spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2016spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2016spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4571"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2016spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4604,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2016spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4571\/revisions\/4604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2016spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2016spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2016spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teach.alimomeni.net\/2016spring1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}