{"id":12581,"date":"2007-12-09T10:18:58","date_gmt":"2007-12-09T10:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/12\/gandhi-as-potato-spam-as-art-and-more.html"},"modified":"2007-12-09T10:18:58","modified_gmt":"2007-12-09T10:18:58","slug":"gandhi_as_potato_spam_as_art_and_more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/09\/gandhi_as_potato_spam_as_art_and_more\/","title":{"rendered":"Gandhi as potato, Spam as art, and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>George Carlin points out that when considering life via license plate slogans, &quot;Somewhere between &#8216;Live Free Or Die&#8217; and &#8216;Famous Potatoes,&#8217; the truth lies&#8230; I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s closer to &#8216;Famous Potatoes.&#8217;&quot;&#160; The Pfanni company might agree, and they cheerfully offer &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibelieveinadv.com\/2007\/11\/pfanni-potatoes-mother-theresa-ghandi-robin-hood-dalai-lama\/\">Only good potatoes<\/a>.&quot; <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marconi.nu\/\">Guilherme Marconi<\/a>&#8216;s illustrations explode with color and detail. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.basement.org\/2007\/08\/guilherme_marconis_illustratio.html\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebeastisback.com\/index2.html\">Christopher Lee<\/a> makes super fun, retro-fab creations.&#160; Roll over the little hearts under the pieces in his illustration setup to see details &amp; concept sketches.<\/li>\n<li>Linzie Hunter beautifully subverts junk mail with her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/linzie\/sets\/72157602417089145\/detail\/\">Spam one-liners<\/a> illustrations.&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/11\/08\/paintings-inspired-b-1.html\">Via<\/a>] <\/li>\n<li>&quot;My line paintings are painted using one continuous line with a beginning, and an ending,&quot; says Geoff Slater of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geoffslater.com\/art\/line.htm\">line paintings<\/a>.&#160; &quot;Although it changes colour, the line never touches, or crosses itself. [<a href=\"http:\/\/dumptrumpet.moonfruit.com\/\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>MIT&#8217;s John Maeda talks about his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2007\/09\/06\/realestate\/keymagazine\/20070909_KEY_COV_SS_2.html\">process for creating an illustration<\/a> for the NYT.<\/li>\n<li>Creator &amp; creation: <a href=\"http:\/\/drawn.ca\/2007\/11\/12\/clever-animation-theres-something-in-the-water\/\"><em>There&#8217;s something in the water<\/em><\/a> reminds me of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atomfilms.com\/film\/animator_vs_animation.jsp\">Animator vs. Animation<\/a><\/em>. <\/li>\n<li>Veer offers a rad collection of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veer.com\/products\/gallery.aspx?gallery=1263\">vintage sci-fi imagery<\/a>.&#160; (I think I once had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veer.com\/products\/detail.aspx?image=MAI0001132\">this guy<\/a> as a gym teacher.) \n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Carlin points out that when considering life via license plate slogans, &quot;Somewhere between &#8216;Live Free Or Die&#8217; and &#8216;Famous Potatoes,&#8217; the truth lies&#8230; I&#8217;m guessing it&#8217;s closer to &#8216;Famous Potatoes.&#8217;&quot;&#160; The Pfanni company might agree, and they cheerfully offer &quot;Only good potatoes.&quot; Guilherme Marconi&#8216;s illustrations explode with color and detail. [Via] Christopher Lee makes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}