{"id":7333,"date":"2012-02-15T08:28:23","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T14:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=7333"},"modified":"2012-02-15T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T08:30:00","slug":"the-story-of-how-the-gitssac-laughing-man-logo-was-designed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=7333","title":{"rendered":"The Story of How the GITS:SAC Laughing Man Logo Was Designed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who have been reading my <a href=\"http:\/\/locusmag.com\/2006\/Features\/Person_GhostInTheShell.html\">Locus Online reviews<\/a> for a while know that I&#8217;m a fan of the Japanese anime series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0346314\/\"><b>Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex<\/b><\/a>. One of the many interesting features of that series is a super-hacker known as &#8220;Laughing Man&#8221; who is so proficient he&#8217;s able to hack streaming video in real time, plastering his logo over the faces of various people in the video:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/matahari.sourceforge.net\/img\/laughing_man_mini_low_opt.gif\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always admired the compelling, iconic simplicity of that logo, and how well it fit into the overall arc of the show&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B001D265RQ\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=lawpershompag-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B001D265RQ\">first season<\/a>. Which is why I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.otakunews.com\/article.php?story=201\">this piece<\/a> on just how it was designed interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who have been reading my Locus Online reviews for a while know that I&#8217;m a fan of the Japanese anime series Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. One of the many interesting features of that series is a super-hacker known as &#8220;Laughing Man&#8221; who is so proficient he&#8217;s able to hack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,5,474],"tags":[198,1327,199,201,1970,1987],"class_list":["post-7333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pics","category-science-fiction","category-tv","tag-anime","tag-design","tag-ghost-in-the-shell-stand-alone-complex","tag-postcyberpunk","tag-science-fiction","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7333"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7538,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7333\/revisions\/7538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}