{"id":430,"date":"2007-05-14T06:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-14T12:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=430"},"modified":"2007-05-14T06:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-14T12:24:00","slug":"2007-05-13-kyles-batperson-tattoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/2007-05-13-kyles-batperson-tattoo\/","title":{"rendered":"2007-05-13 Kyle&#8217;s Batperson tattoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\">.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/497795159\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/192\/497795159_f884e09968.jpg?w=605\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/497795159\/\">2007-05-13 Kyle&#8217;s Batperson tattoo<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/royblumenthal\/\">royblumenthal<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\tMy girlfriend&#8217;s sister is dating <a href=\"http:\/\/profile.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;friendid=135857053\">Kyle Lindsay<\/a>, a founding member of the former LINDSAY McGUIRE BAND. He&#8217;s now formed a new band called <a href=\"http:\/\/profile.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&#038;friendid=183686087\">ELUSION<\/a>, and he&#8217;s well on his way to rock stardom. (You can <a href=\"http:\/\/profile.myspace.com\/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&#038;friendid=183686087\">listen to some of his tracks<\/a> on Elusion&#8217;s MySpace page.)<\/p>\n<p>J and I were visiting her mom for mother&#8217;s day, and I whipped out my tablet pc. Kyle dug it. And he asked me if I might consider doing a tattoo design for him.<\/p>\n<p>He sketched out a very rough version of it on my tablet, and together, we messed around with it to make it a neat, evocative artwork.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a pic of BATPERSON (that&#8217;s the non-sexist way of naming BATMAN) blowing the bats out of his brain with a revolver.<\/p>\n<p>This is just a preliminary scamp, and it&#8217;s more for the atmosphere than anything else. The actual tattoo will have to be pretty different. More detailed, for one. More recognisable too. And much simpler. I think I&#8217;m gonna have fun with it.<\/p>\n<p><i>This painting was made by Kyle Lindsay and me on my Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet pc running ArtRage 2.2 in J&#8217;s mom&#8217;s living room, with about 120 decibels of family noise in the background.<\/i><\/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>2007-05-13 Kyle&#8217;s Batperson tattoo, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. My girlfriend&#8217;s sister is dating Kyle Lindsay, a founding member of the former LINDSAY McGUIRE BAND. He&#8217;s now formed a new band called ELUSION, and he&#8217;s well on his way to rock &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/2007-05-13-kyles-batperson-tattoo\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2007-05-13 Kyle&#8217;s Batperson tattoo<\/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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430","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-6W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","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=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}