{"id":33002,"date":"2014-08-12T13:03:27","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T03:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=33002"},"modified":"2014-08-12T13:03:27","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T03:33:27","slug":"vale-joe-viskocil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2014\/08\/12\/vale-joe-viskocil\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale &#8211; Joe Viskocil"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_33004\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33004\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33004\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/joe-viskocil-354459.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Viskocil - 1952-2014\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/joe-viskocil-354459.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/joe-viskocil-354459-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-33004\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Viskocil &#8211; 1952-2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Academy Award winning Hollywood\u00a0special effects artist, Joe Viskocil, has passed away.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Viskocil won the Academy Award for\u00a0Special Effects for 1996&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2009\/01\/10\/movie-review-independence-day\/\"><em>Independence Day<\/em><\/a>. Among his many, many credits, include work on films as diverse as <em>Ghostbusters, The Blob<\/em> (1988), <em>The Abyss, Toys<\/em> (with Robin Williams), <em>Johnny Mnemonic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2009\/12\/03\/movie-review-star-trek-nemesis\/\">Star Trek: Nemesis<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2012\/09\/20\/worst-film-week-movie-review-battlefield-earth\/\">Battlefield Earth<\/a>, Panic Room, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2009\/01\/17\/movie-review-arlington-road\/\">Arlington Road<\/a><\/em>, and more recently on Duncan Jones&#8217; <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2012\/02\/27\/movie-review-source-code\/\">Source Code<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Viskocil passed away on August 11th, aged 62.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academy Award winning Hollywood\u00a0special effects artist, Joe Viskocil, has passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":33004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/joe-viskocil-354459.jpg",300,450,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/joe-viskocil-354459-300x280.jpg",300,280,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/joe-viskocil-354459-300x365.jpg",300,365,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/joe-viskocil-354459.jpg",300,450,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/joe-viskocil-354459.jpg",300,450,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/joe-viskocil-354459.jpg",300,450,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/joe-viskocil-354459.jpg",300,450,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/joe-viskocil-354459.jpg",300,450,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/joe-viskocil-354459.jpg",227,340,false],"profile_24":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/joe-viskocil-354459-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/joe-viskocil-354459-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/joe-viskocil-354459-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/joe-viskocil-354459-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/joe-viskocil-354459-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/joe-viskocil-354459.jpg",121,182,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/category\/film-general\/obituary\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}