{"id":2054,"date":"2007-10-22T21:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-23T04:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2007-10-22T21:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-23T04:58:00","slug":"some-plugs-and-an-o-g-original-goodguy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/?p=2054","title":{"rendered":"Some plugs and an O.G. (Original Goodguy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">This is long overdue, but I ought to mention that a couple of my friends have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/index.php\">Etsy<\/a> shops with <i>quality<\/i> products in stock&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ren119.blogspot.com\/\">Ren<\/a> is part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop.php?user_id=5058391\">Paper Lotus Design Group<\/a>, and she has cool and quirky greeting cards, stationary, apparel, and tote bags available:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop.php?user_id=5058391\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124401506720639394\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_0BhBNaWF4g0\/Rx2IBSaPaaI\/AAAAAAAAAEg\/0gLO4WlzIsI\/s200\/ren.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.apekabuki.blogspot.com\/\">Annie, founder and proprietor of Ape Kabuki<\/a>, has beautiful block prints (hand-carved and pressed) for sale at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop.php?user_id=5177611\">her shop<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop.php?user_id=5177611\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124401622684756402\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_0BhBNaWF4g0\/Rx2IICaPabI\/AAAAAAAAAEo\/-Vutt0tAryM\/s200\/apek.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Last but not least, October may almost be over, but that doesn&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t still enjoy <a href=\"http:\/\/nathanhamill.blogspot.com\/2007_10_01_archive.html\">Cat-tober<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathanhamill.com\/\">Nathan Hamill gallery\/blog\/store<\/a> (click on <a href=\"http:\/\/nathanhamill.blogspot.com\/\">NEH gallery<\/a>). After you&#8217;re done checking out his bleakly terrifying (yet strangely fascinating) kitty-cats, be sure to check out the greeting cards for sale at <a href=\"http:\/\/nehshoppe.blogspot.com\/\">his non-Etsy store<\/a>. CAT-TOBER!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nathanhamill.blogspot.com\/2007_10_01_archive.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124404053636245954\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_0BhBNaWF4g0\/Rx2KViaPacI\/AAAAAAAAAEw\/qd08HR967KM\/s200\/nehcat.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Visit my friends, support independent artists, and do all your Christmas shopping early! We now return you to your regularly scheduled dorkiness&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>My brain has been made of an inert slime lately, so when I needed a sketch subject, <a href=\"http:\/\/bbcinnercircle.blogspot.com\/\">Josh<\/a> suggested Superman:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/supermanweb.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbot.com\/bootlegsketch\/supermanweb.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">click above for larger view<\/span><\/div>\n<p>I sketched this up really quickly (probably less than 15 minutes), but then ended up agonizing over it in Photoshop for 2 hours, tweaking the lines, and noodling with the colors. Superman seems basic, but if the slightest thing is off, it screws up everything. I&#8217;m not completely happy with this one, but I don&#8217;t hate it either. The proportions of the face and somewhat youthful appearance are influenced by the late great <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mike_Wieringo\">Mike Wieringo<\/a>&#8216;s version of the big blue boyscout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is long overdue, but I ought to mention that a couple of my friends have Etsy shops with quality products in stock&#8230; Ren is part of the Paper Lotus Design Group, and she has cool and quirky greeting cards, stationary, apparel, and tote bags available: Annie, founder and proprietor of Ape Kabuki, has beautiful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shameless-plugs","category-superheroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jasonbot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}