{"id":9517,"date":"2016-03-19T17:58:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T16:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-1en-248"},"modified":"2016-03-19T17:58:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T16:58:37","slug":"diamond-in-the-rough-films-reviews-traceroute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2016\/03\/19\/diamond-in-the-rough-films-reviews-traceroute\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamond In The Rough Films reviews &#8220;Traceroute&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Schwab over at Diamond In The Rough Films reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.monochrom.at\/traceroute\">Traceroute<\/a>. He liked it and gave us 3.5\/4 stars!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I had blocked out my inner-nerd and all it took was an Austrian to melt down the hard water stains on my psyche and embrace it again.<\/p>\n<p>The Austrian is one\u00a0Johannes Grenzfurthner (going to Ctrl+C\u00a0that last name right now) and he has made a simply wonderful documentary in\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">TRACEROUTE &#8211;\u00a0<\/span>a lovely ode to nerdom and all things geeky. \u00a0Flying into San Francisco and travelling East to New York City by van,\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: normal;\">Grenzfurthner stops at many points along the way (such as Area 51 and Stan Winston Studios) while giving us a little history, chatting with the local folks and opening up about his own personal nerd journey.<\/p>\n<p> This\u00a0doc works in some very unconventional ways, not the least of which is our plucky protagonist. Grenzfurthner is an absolute charmer as our host and his narration is note-perfect (the accent is so cool in that Werner Herzog kind of way). It&#8217;s really rare in a documentary about a not-that-famous person where you become almost instantly won-over and invested in their personal journey.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ditrfilms.com\/#!traceroute\/hvlta\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Schwab over at Diamond In The Rough Films reviewed Traceroute. He liked it and gave us 3.5\/4 stars! I had blocked out my inner-nerd and all it took was an Austrian to melt down the hard water stains on my psyche and embrace it again. The Austrian is one\u00a0Johannes Grenzfurthner (going to Ctrl+C\u00a0that last &#8230; <a title=\"Diamond In The Rough Films reviews &#8220;Traceroute&#8221;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2016\/03\/19\/diamond-in-the-rough-films-reviews-traceroute\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koromo_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-9517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-blog","tag-mono","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/9517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/9517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}