{"id":630,"date":"2008-05-09T08:12:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T12:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=630"},"modified":"2008-05-02T19:38:30","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T23:38:30","slug":"artistic-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=630","title":{"rendered":"Artistic License"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/artisticlicense.gif' alt='Artistic License' \/><\/p>\n<p>Artist and culture jammer TradeMark G. often invokes the concept of Artistic License when asked, for instance, &#8220;Why on earth did you paint that toaster purple and install it on the ceiling?&#8221; or &#8220;Why do you drive a hearse that looks like a zebra?&#8221;  He recently decided to back up his artistic cred with an actual license, so now he&#8217;s all official.  He&#8217;s selling similar licenses so you, too, can back up your claim of being a misunderstood artist with legitimate-looking documentation.<\/p>\n<p>If you live outside the U.S. and need a license for your own country&#8211;or if you just don&#8217;t want to spend the 20 bucks&#8211;I expect you could do something similar with photo editing software and a laminating machine (available at copy shops like Kinko&#8217;s).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/evolution-control.com\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;view=article&#038;id=117:artistic-license&#038;catid=44:blog&#038;Itemid=79\">Link<\/a> <I>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artist and culture jammer TradeMark G. often invokes the concept of Artistic License when asked, for instance, &#8220;Why on earth did you paint that toaster purple and install it on the ceiling?&#8221; or &#8220;Why do you drive a hearse that looks like a zebra?&#8221; He recently decided to back up his artistic cred with an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-peculiar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}