{"id":237,"date":"2009-02-26T12:50:50","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T18:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/?p=237"},"modified":"2009-03-03T08:46:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T14:46:59","slug":"coldplay-reaches-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/coldplay-reaches-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Coldplay Reaches Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Coldplay hit <em>Viva la Vida<\/em> is loosely translated as &#8220;Long Live Life&#8221; but lead-singer Chris Martin creates a unique connection to his audience with a series of rhythmic &#8220;reaching out&#8221; gestures. <!--more-->His open palms and descriptive moves of his hands support the lyrics while making implied &#8220;offers&#8221; to the viewer of the musical piece. Educational from a presentations skills perspective and a pretty cool song, too!\u00a0 You can watch the video here and look for the visual cues.<\/p>\n<p>Or, if you want to see the underlying skills in action<strong>,\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/the-visual-critic\/#coldplay\"><strong>The Visual Critic<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0analyzes the video and highlights some of the effective presentation techniques used by Chris Martin.<\/p>\n<div style=\"border-right: #ff6600 1px solid; border-top: #ff6600 1px solid; border-left: #ff6600 1px solid; width: 310px; border-bottom: 0px; padding: 3px;\"><object width=\"310\" height=\"259\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dvgZkm1xWPE&amp;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dvgZkm1xWPE&amp;rel=1\" \/><\/object><\/div>\n<p><object width=\"300\" height=\"180\" data=\"http:\/\/widget.lyricsmode.com\/i\/scroll2.swf?lid=663856&amp;speed=4\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/widget.lyricsmode.com\/i\/scroll2.swf?lid=663856&amp;speed=4\" \/><\/object><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsmode.com\" target=\"_blank\">Lyrics<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsmode.com\/lyrics\/c\/coldplay\/\" target=\"_blank\">Coldplay lyrics<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyricsmode.com\/lyrics\/c\/coldplay\/viva_la_vida.html\" target=\"_blank\">Viva La Vida lyrics<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Coldplay hit Viva la Vida is loosely translated as &#8220;Long Live Life&#8221; but lead-singer Chris Martin creates a unique connection to his audience with a series of rhythmic &#8220;reaching out&#8221; gestures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[14],"tags":[21,22,9,11,8],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paPH93-3P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":529,"href":"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions\/529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/medianet-ny.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}