{"id":1355,"date":"2010-06-10T19:57:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-10T23:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/?p=1355"},"modified":"2010-06-10T19:57:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-10T23:57:55","slug":"floydian-filmmaker-seeks-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/2010\/06\/floydian-filmmaker-seeks-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"Floydian filmmaker seeks funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new feature-length documentary film about long-time <strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong> sleeve designer <strong>Storm Thorgerson<\/strong> is nearly complete, and the filmmaker is looking for funding.<\/p>\n<p>New York filmmaker <strong>Roddy Bogawa<\/strong> is the man behind &#8220;Taken by Storm,&#8221; a 90-minute film looking at the prolific career of Thorgerson, who helped create nearly every Floyd album cover, as well as countless iconic covers from some of the world&#8217;s biggest bands.<\/p>\n<p>Floyd&#8217;s <strong>David Gilmour <\/strong>and <strong>Nick Mason<\/strong> are two of many musicians who appear in the film, along with photographers, illustrators and assistants who&#8217;ve helped execute the  work from the days of Thorgerson&#8217;s early studio <strong>Hipgnosis<\/strong> to his new company, <strong>StormStudios<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Thorgerson has granted Bogawa access to his personal archives so the film promises a bevy of never-before-seen workparts.<\/p>\n<p>Bogawa has established a page at Kickstarter to raise money to complete his project. Pledge amounts as low as $25 can get you some swag in return. If you have larger amounts to spend, some of the rewards are quite impressive. (Ever fancied yourself an Associate Producer? With $3,500, consider it done.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/880116884\/taken-by-storm-a-film-about-storm-thorgerson-and-h?pos=1\">Visit &#8220;Taken by Storm&#8221; at Kickstarter<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takenbystormfilm.info\">visit the film&#8217;s official site<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new feature-length documentary film about long-time Pink Floyd sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson is nearly complete, and the filmmaker is looking for funding. New York filmmaker Roddy Bogawa is the man behind &#8220;Taken by Storm,&#8221; a 90-minute film looking at the prolific career of Thorgerson, who helped create nearly every Floyd album cover, as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,5,13,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-merchandise","category-personnel","category-storm-thorgerson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1355"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1360,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1355\/revisions\/1360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.floydianslip.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}