{"id":541,"date":"2008-03-16T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/?p=541"},"modified":"2008-03-16T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T16:58:00","slug":"riaad-moosa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/riaad-moosa\/","title":{"rendered":"Riaad Moosa"},"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\/2333575210\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2283\/2333575210_66f2009977.jpg?w=605\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\t<span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/royblumenthal\/2333575210\/\">Riaad Moosa<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/royblumenthal\/\">royblumenthal<\/a>.<\/span><\/div>\n<p class=\"flickr-yourcomment\">\tYup. This dude&#8217;s one seriously funny bloke. He was the entertainment at the Mugg &#038; Bean National Conference gala dinner at the Lord Charles Hotel in Somerset West. And he was brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>The speech bubble quote is a throwaway punchline for one of his gags where he pokes fun at himself for being a Muslim. (Maybe he&#8217;s poking fun at non-Muslims who see any Muslim as a threat? But you knew that, right?)<\/p>\n<p>I was realllllly reallllllllllllllllllly reluctant to paint him while he was doing his gig. I felt that I might be taking the spotlight off him.<\/p>\n<p>The laughs were flowing thick and fast, so I tried a few exploratory strokes.<\/p>\n<p>Bear in mind that the screen was off to his right, and was a HUGE screen. A good 5 metres by 4 metres. And the nose alone on this picture was bigger than his entire body on stage.<\/p>\n<p>So when I started drawing, and the laughs didn&#8217;t dry up, I figured it would be safe to draw him, and that I wouldn&#8217;t be hurting his set.<\/p>\n<p>Riaad&#8230; I sincerely hope that I didn&#8217;t dilute anything for you on the night.<\/p>\n<p>He asked me from the stage if I could email the pic to him. So I kinda took that as an affirmative.<\/p>\n<p>Book Riaad on <a href=\"mailto:riaadmoosa@gmail.com\">riaadmoosa@gmail.com<\/a> or +27 84 575 1538. His website is at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.riaadmoosa.co.za\/riaadweb.html\">http:\/\/www.riaadmoosa.co.za\/riaadweb.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>This funny painting of the funny dude, Riaad Moosa, was made on my Toshiba Tecra M4 tablet pc, using ArtRage 2.5. Funnily enough.<\/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>Riaad Moosa, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. Yup. This dude&#8217;s one seriously funny bloke. He was the entertainment at the Mugg &#038; Bean National Conference gala dinner at the Lord Charles Hotel in Somerset West. And he was brilliant. The speech &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/riaad-moosa\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Riaad Moosa<\/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-541","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-8J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","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=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royblumenthal.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}