{"id":326,"date":"2014-03-16T07:07:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T15:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=326"},"modified":"2014-03-15T08:49:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T16:49:57","slug":"a-half-million-dollar-portrait-in-platinum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/16\/a-half-million-dollar-portrait-in-platinum\/","title":{"rendered":"A half-million-dollar portrait in platinum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I find the creation process far more beautiful than the results, at least in this case:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bkfZClbHm3M?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>PetaPixel <a href=\"http:\/\/petapixel.com\/2014\/03\/11\/500000-halftone-prints-made-13000-platinum-beads\/\">explains<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Starting at a cool $500K for a 23\u00d732-inch \u201cprint,\u201d these portraits are made out of tiny spheres of one of the most expensive metals on Earth: Platinum.<\/p>\n<p>You get a half-hour meeting with <a href=\"http:\/\/platinumsphereportrait.com\/\">the company<\/a>, after which they will assign a photographer to come shoot you for a couple of hours. From there, the image is digitized, hand assembled with the 13,000 platinum spheres, and you end up with a halftone portrait worth a whopping half million dollars\u2026 or so they would like you to believe.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bkfZClbHm3M\">YouTube<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I find the creation process far more beautiful than the results, at least in this case: PetaPixel explains, Starting at a cool $500K for a 23\u00d732-inch \u201cprint,\u201d these portraits are made out of tiny spheres of one of the most expensive metals on Earth: Platinum. You get a half-hour meeting with the company, after which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}