{"id":227,"date":"2001-06-06T20:32:59","date_gmt":"2001-06-07T00:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=227"},"modified":"2009-10-23T20:40:41","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T00:40:41","slug":"monkeywrench-grrl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=227","title":{"rendered":"Monkeywrench Grrl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What&#8217;s especially ironic about this piece<\/strong> was that it was a piece with a World War II patriotic retro-kitsch motif based on the loud, kitschy, big-time phony WWII-era posters on the bus shelters and subway billboards being used to advertise a recent Disney special-effex blockbuster, the infamous Ben Affleck masterwork <em>Pearl Harbor<\/em> that came out early that summer&#8230; a good three months before the real, live, non-ironic, mindless patriotic kitsch seizure following 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-228\" title=\"wecandoit550w\" src=\"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/wecandoit550w.jpg\" alt=\"wecandoit550w\" width=\"550\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/wecandoit550w.jpg 550w, https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/wecandoit550w-86x150.jpg 86w, https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/wecandoit550w-289x500.jpg 289w, https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/wecandoit550w-347x600.jpg 347w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the purely non-issue-oriented side, a design and technical epic Win. The layout, pose and color came out a perfect match &#8212; I was able to find a high-res scan of the original WWII piece to point-sample my colors from &#8212; and it was also the first time I made serious use of top-highlight and middletone shadow hatching effects, drawn on a sheet of tracing paper with a dark graphite stick, scanned as a separate layer and dropped over the main drawing in Illustrator. I&#8217;d been kicking the idea around for a while, playing with it just a bit, but decided to try it whole hog after seeing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wallyg\/1389660699\/\" target=\"_blank\">Van Gogh&#8217;s <em>La Meridienne<\/em><\/a> at the Mus\u00e8e d&#8217;Orsay a few months before.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"We Can Do It!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/fall2001imfwb\/wecandoit.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>High-res jpg image,<\/strong><\/a> 1.8mb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s especially ironic about this piece was that it was a piece with a World War II patriotic retro-kitsch motif based on the loud, kitschy, big-time phony WWII-era posters on the bus shelters and subway billboards being used to advertise a recent Disney special-effex blockbuster, the infamous Ben Affleck masterwork Pearl Harbor that came out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,44,5],"tags":[48,47,1460,51,52],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-globalization","category-liberty","tag-anarchism","tag-anarchists","tag-globalization","tag-imf","tag-world-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}