{"id":24942,"date":"2016-03-24T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=24942"},"modified":"2016-03-22T18:53:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T01:53:49","slug":"ben-skinner-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/24\/ben-skinner-2\/","title":{"rendered":"ben skinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/benskinner.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-24945\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/benskinner.jpg\" alt=\"benskinner\" width=\"584\" height=\"3375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/benskinner.jpg 584w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/benskinner-52x300.jpg 52w, https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/benskinner-177x1024.jpg 177w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My friend\/idol\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/benskinner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Skinner\u00a0<\/a>is at it again. This is a new series he&#8217;s working on. Paint? No. Holographic transfer foil. Yeah, that&#8217;s how Ben rolls. But he doesn&#8217;t stop there, oh no, a holographic foil plant would not be complete without the illusion of a\u00a0chainlink fence created\u00a0with engraved Plexiglass. <em>Sigh.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I did a little poking around on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/benskinnerart\/\" target=\"_blank\">his Instagram feed<\/a> to get those &#8220;in progress&#8221; closeups, but let&#8217;s be honest, photographs just don&#8217;t do these pieces justice&#8230;\u00a0here&#8217;s a little video that I also found during my <del>snooping<\/del> researching that really gives you a sense of this work <em>(pre-engraved plexiglass fence):<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 658px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-version=\"6\">\n<div style=\"padding: 8px;\">\n<div style=\"background: #F8F8F8; line-height: 0; margin-top: 40px; padding: 50.0% 0; text-align: center; width: 100%;\"><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px; margin-bottom: 0; margin-top: 8px; overflow: hidden; padding: 8px 0 7px; text-align: center; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;\"><a style=\"color: #c9c8cd; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: 17px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BAqi0FaxdZq\/\" target=\"_blank\">A video posted by Ben Skinner (@benskinnerart)<\/a> on <time style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 17px;\" datetime=\"2016-01-18T03:08:33+00:00\">Jan 17, 2016 at 7:08pm PST<\/time><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\" async=\"\" defer=\"defer\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend\/idol\u00a0Ben Skinner\u00a0is at it again. This is a new series he&#8217;s working on. Paint? No. Holographic transfer foil. Yeah, that&#8217;s how Ben rolls. But he doesn&#8217;t stop there, oh no, a holographic foil plant would not be complete without the illusion of a\u00a0chainlink fence created\u00a0with engraved Plexiglass. Sigh.\u00a0 I did a little poking around [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24942"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24958,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24942\/revisions\/24958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}