{"id":227,"date":"2006-06-29T08:38:06","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T08:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2006\/06\/in-dust-we-trust.html"},"modified":"2006-06-29T08:38:06","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T08:38:06","slug":"in_dust_we_trust","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2006\/06\/29\/in_dust_we_trust\/","title":{"rendered":"In Dust we Trust"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you just know you&#8217;re among your people.  A few years ago, when I was new to Adobe San Jose, someone parked &amp; more or less abandoned a car in the West Tower parking garage.  After a few months the car&#8217;s windows had grown almost totally opaque, coated by the unending flow of construction-related dust.  And so, in classic Photoshop style, someone had drawn in the dust a little tabbed palette with a slider marked, &#8220;Opacity: 80%.&#8221;  <i>Yeeeah, thass&#8217; my <u>geeks<\/u>&#8230;<\/i><br \/>\nI thought of this when seeing the work of &#8220;dust artist&#8221; Scott Wade.  Scott makes his filthy Mini into a canvas for reproducing everything from da Vinci to dogs playing poker; check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/content\/news\/photos\/062706dustart\/index.html\">a gallery of his work<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/scott_wades_minicoop_window_art_3973.asp\">Via<\/a>]  Maybe now I can convince my wife that I&#8217;ve been prepping my once-blue Jetta to be an artistic medium, not just letting it go to seed&#8230;<br \/>\n[For more on impermanent works, see previous entries on artists working in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/04\/let_no_man_scare_you.html\">packing tape<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2006\/02\/trompe_loeil.html\">chalk<\/a>.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you just know you&#8217;re among your people. A few years ago, when I was new to Adobe San Jose, someone parked &amp; more or less abandoned a car in the West Tower parking garage. After a few months the car&#8217;s windows had grown almost totally opaque, coated by the unending flow of construction-related dust. [&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\/227"}],"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=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}