{"id":441,"date":"2006-10-02T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-02T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=441"},"modified":"2006-10-02T09:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-02T09:22:00","slug":"arakimentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"Arakimentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/araki_1-752947.jpg\"><img style=\"cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/www.matthewlangley.com\/blog\/uploaded_images\/araki_1-744818.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I know a lot of folks love Nobuyoshi Araki and I&#8217;m with them about 35% of the time. This weekend I watched &#8220;Arakimentary&#8221; and frankly it just didn&#8217;t do it for me. The Documentary was interesting enough and Araki seems like a huge personality &#8211; but I feel like I need a little bit more &#8211; especially as it pertains to the images he creates. It seems like he&#8217;s not interested in the dichotomy between his pornography, commercial, and his personal work &#8211; which to me is the more interesting thing when you look at his entire body of work. Clearly your milage may vary. <\/p>\n<p>I rented a copy from netflix, you might have heard of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know a lot of folks love Nobuyoshi Araki and I&#8217;m with them about 35% of the time. This weekend I watched &#8220;Arakimentary&#8221; and frankly it just didn&#8217;t do it for me. The Documentary was interesting enough and Araki seems like a huge personality &#8211; but I feel like I need a little bit more &#8211; especially as it pertains to the images he creates. It seems like he&#8217;s not interested in the dichotomy between his pornography, commercial, and his personal work &#8211; which to me is the more interesting thing when you look at his entire body of work.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/?p=441\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Arakimentary<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/matthewlangley.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}