{"id":9247,"date":"2012-08-30T20:38:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T01:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=9247"},"modified":"2012-08-30T22:21:46","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T03:21:46","slug":"dont-look-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=9247","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t look back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Dylan&#8217;s 1966 London tour led to a landmark 1967 D. A. Pennebaker film <a href=http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0061589\/ target=1><i>Don&#8217;t Look Back<\/i><\/a>, in my opinion one of the greatest documentaries ever made.<\/p>\n<p>The movie contains a fascinating scene in a hotel room with Dylan and Donovan.  Donovan was a wonderful pop singer\/songwriter, but (to paraphrase the late Senator Lloyd Bentsen), he was no Bob Dylan.<\/p>\n<p>In the scene, Donovan plays a cute little song he wrote, after which Dylan performs &#8220;It&#8217;s All Over Now, Baby Blue&#8221;.   The difference &#8212; between a mere entertainer and a great genius at the peak of his powers &#8212; is stark, and almost shocking.<\/p>\n<p>Today I spent several hours talking with <a href=http:\/\/vimeo.com\/36579366 target=1>Bret Victor<\/a>, during which we each shared our respective demos\/prototypes and discussed thoughts and ideas for the future.  The experience was wonderful and exhilarating.<\/p>\n<p>And I felt like Donovan. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Dylan&#8217;s 1966 London tour led to a landmark 1967 D. A. Pennebaker film Don&#8217;t Look Back, in my opinion one of the greatest documentaries ever made. The movie contains a fascinating scene in a hotel room with Dylan and Donovan. Donovan was a wonderful pop singer\/songwriter, but (to paraphrase the late Senator Lloyd Bentsen), &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=9247\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Don&#8217;t look back&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9247"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9263,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9247\/revisions\/9263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}