{"id":298,"date":"2012-01-24T09:27:35","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T09:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bit-of-alright.com\/?p=298"},"modified":"2012-01-28T02:15:41","modified_gmt":"2012-01-28T02:15:41","slug":"performance-patrick-ashe-several-amazing-things-about-tetris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/?p=298","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Ashe: Several Amazing Things About Tetris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bit-of-alright.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tetris.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"444\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tetris.jpeg 530w, https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/tetris-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a&nbsp;lot of&nbsp;art out there that I&nbsp;just can&#8217;t connect to, but Patrick sits comfortably between performance art, spoken word and&nbsp;videogames, with a&nbsp;result that&#8217;s human, amazing and&nbsp;hilarious. I&nbsp;saw it at&nbsp;GameCity last year, and&nbsp;it&#8217;s better than most of&nbsp;the&nbsp;things I&nbsp;saw at&nbsp;the&nbsp;Edinburgh Fringe the&nbsp;year before that. Don&#8217;t miss your chance to&nbsp;see it at&nbsp;Bit of&nbsp;Alright.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a&nbsp;description from Patrick:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Several Amazing Things About Tetris (1984) is a&nbsp;short performance piece about the&nbsp;video game Tetris, obsession and&nbsp;some amazing things. The&nbsp;piece is a&nbsp;one man show in&nbsp;which I&nbsp;attempt to&nbsp;tell the&nbsp;audience about my&nbsp;favourite video game of&nbsp;all time, Tetris. The&nbsp;show however only lasts as&nbsp;long 1 person can play a&nbsp;game of&nbsp;Tetris for, so as&nbsp;soon as&nbsp;that person gets a&nbsp;game over, the&nbsp;show ends at&nbsp;whatever point I&nbsp;reached in&nbsp;my&nbsp;performance.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Patrick&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/thepatashe.wordpress.com\/\">WordPress blog is here<\/a>, and&nbsp;his twitter account <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/patrickashe\">is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a&nbsp;lot of&nbsp;art out there that I&nbsp;just can&#8217;t connect to, but Patrick sits comfortably between performance art, spoken word and&nbsp;videogames, with a&nbsp;result that&#8217;s human, amazing and&nbsp;hilarious. I&nbsp;saw it at&nbsp;GameCity last year, and&nbsp;it&#8217;s better than most of&nbsp;the&nbsp;things I&nbsp;saw at&nbsp;the&nbsp;Edinburgh Fringe the&nbsp;year before that. Don&#8217;t miss your chance to&nbsp;see it at&nbsp;Bit of&nbsp;Alright. Here&#8217;s a&nbsp;description from Patrick: &#8220;Several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-speakers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":387,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/feral-vector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}