{"id":32,"date":"2008-01-30T14:11:02","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T19:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/01\/30\/a-virtuoso-on-the-rubiks-cube\/"},"modified":"2008-02-05T22:18:10","modified_gmt":"2008-02-06T03:18:10","slug":"a-virtuoso-on-the-rubiks-cube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/01\/30\/a-virtuoso-on-the-rubiks-cube\/","title":{"rendered":"A Virtuoso on the Rubik&#8217;s Cube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This may be slightly off-topic&#8230;or not. Inspired by Naomi&#8217;s post about her son mechanically solving a Rubik&#8217;s Cube, I thought of this famous video, of the film director Michel Gondry (<em>Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind<\/em>), &#8220;solving&#8221; a Rubik&#8217;s Cube with his feet.<\/p>\n<p>What Gondry is <em>really <\/em>doing, though, is presenting us, much like a detective novel, with a puzzle&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"331\" width=\"420\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/swf\/x16v4r\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/swf\/x16v4r\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" height=\"331\" width=\"420\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymotion.com\/video\/x16v4r_michel-gondry-solve-rubik-cube-with_fun\">Michel Gondry Solve Rubik Cube With Feet<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This may be slightly off-topic&#8230;or not. Inspired by Naomi&#8217;s post about her son mechanically solving a Rubik&#8217;s Cube, I thought of this famous video, of the film director Michel Gondry (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), &#8220;solving&#8221; a Rubik&#8217;s Cube with his feet. What Gondry is really doing, though, is presenting us, much like a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/spring2008\/610\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}