{"id":998,"date":"2008-02-28T09:01:47","date_gmt":"2008-02-28T03:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2008\/02\/28\/russian-gmail-art\/"},"modified":"2008-02-28T09:01:47","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T03:31:47","slug":"russian-gmail-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2008\/02\/28\/russian-gmail-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Gmail art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve seen people recreate the M from the Gmail logo out of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=C0b2lox5j1Y\">dominoes<\/a> and even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=BFQdGkFZcE4\">sand<\/a>, but until <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aCNSWwAJNZE\">our colleagues in Google&#8217;s Moscow office created this video<\/a>, we&#8217;re pretty sure no one had ever made a giant Gmail interface with:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; 162 meters of gray tape<br \/>&#8211; 45 lego pieces  <br \/>&#8211; 32 sticks of plasticine<br \/>&#8211; 18 brushes<br \/>&#8211; 18 square meters of batten<br \/>&#8211; 12 cans of spray paint<br \/>&#8211; 10 liters of white paint<br \/>&#8211; 4 reams of paper<br \/>&#8211; 2 kilograms of millet porridge<br \/>&#8211; 1 printer<br \/>&#8211; 1 hair dryer<br \/>&#8211; 1 mop<br \/>&#8211; 1 saw<\/p>\n<p><object height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aCNSWwAJNZE&amp;rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/aCNSWwAJNZE&amp;rel=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" height=\"355\" width=\"425\"><\/embed><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>And the actual M at the end of the video? That&#8217;s 3 sweaters, 3 balls, 3 pillows, 2 dumbbells, 2 pair of gloves, a set of child&#8217;s plates, a hockey stick, a scarf, a paper folder, hats and slippers. All in red of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve seen people recreate the M from the Gmail logo out of dominoes and even sand, but until our colleagues in Google&#8217;s Moscow office created this video, we&#8217;re pretty sure no one had ever made a giant Gmail interface with: &#8211; 162 meters of gray tape&#8211; 45 lego pieces &#8211; 32 sticks of plasticine&#8211; 18 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[167],"class_list":["post-998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-google","tag-google","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}