{"id":336,"date":"2006-06-18T04:13:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-18T10:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=336"},"modified":"2006-06-18T04:13:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-18T10:13:00","slug":"2006-06-18-imomus-nick-currie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/2006-06-18-imomus-nick-currie\/","title":{"rendered":"2006-06-18 iMomus (Nick Currie)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/169466623\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/static.flickr.com\/46\/169466623_2dbed8f561_m.jpg?w=605\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/169466623\/\">2006-06-18 iMomus (Nick Currie)<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/royblumenthal\/\">royblumenthal<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n<p>This is the full-colour version of iMomus (Nick Currie), the dude who writes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/users\/imomus\/\">Click opera<\/a>, an art-fiend&#8217;s must-read.<\/p>\n<p>According to his blog, he wears ear-muffs to give himself quiet-time.<\/p>\n<p>I recently ran a performance-poetry workshop for schoolkids at St John&#8217;s College (I&#8217;m also a performance poet, amongst other things), and asked Nick for permission to play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yvYByg9HN64\">a video of one of his songs<\/a> to the group. He said, &#8216;Yeah.&#8217; The song makes use of nonsense words to convey emotion. Went down well with the kids.<\/p>\n<p>This drawing was made using Alias Sketchbook Pro 2.0 on a Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet pc with me listening to U2&#8217;s ALL THAT YOU CAN&#8217;T LEAVE BEHIND loud, on a Sunday morning, disregarding my neighbours just a tad<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Roy Blumenthal is a writer, director, artist, and <a href=\"http:\/\/snipurl.com\/visualfacilitator\">visual facilitator<\/a>. Hire him to make pictures of your meetings or workshops.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2006-06-18 iMomus (Nick Currie) Originally uploaded by royblumenthal. This is the full-colour version of iMomus (Nick Currie), the dude who writes Click opera, an art-fiend&#8217;s must-read. According to his blog, he wears ear-muffs to give himself quiet-time. I recently ran &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/2006-06-18-imomus-nick-currie\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2006-06-18 iMomus (Nick Currie)<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p521FP-5q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}