{"id":176,"date":"2008-05-27T21:27:01","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T02:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2008\/05\/27\/being-jackson-pollock\/"},"modified":"2008-05-27T21:27:01","modified_gmt":"2008-05-28T02:27:01","slug":"being-jackson-pollock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2008\/05\/27\/being-jackson-pollock\/","title":{"rendered":"Being Jackson Pollock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Putting together <a href=\"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/2008\/05\/26\/there-are-no-small-engines-just-small-minds\/\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday&#8217;s ruminations<\/a> on essence, existence and lawn mowery, specifically the section about the alleged lack of any obvious strategy underlying my approach to the task, I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksonpollock.org\/\" title=\"Try it.  You know you want to.\" target=\"_blank\">this Jackson Pollock emulator<\/a>, a site that allows you to try your hand at applying virtual paint to e-canvas in the fashion that Pollock pioneered in meatspace.   The emulator is what I used to create the &#8220;Jackson Pollock painting&#8221; inserted in the body of the post. Instructions on how to use it are <a href=\"http:\/\/jayisgames.com\/archives\/2006\/09\/the_jackson_pollock_emulator.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, but I hadn&#8217;t read them when I used it yesterday.\u00a0 Try it, and save your masterpiece using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirekw.com\/winfreeware\/mwsnap.html\" title=\"Thanks, Mirek!  Great software, and the price is right.\" target=\"_blank\">MWSnap<\/a>, a free (and extremely useful) utility that allows you to take a screen capture from any window on your screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Putting together yesterday&#8217;s ruminations on essence, existence and lawn mowery, specifically the section about the alleged lack of any obvious strategy underlying my approach to the task, I came across this Jackson Pollock emulator, a site that allows you to try your hand at applying virtual paint to e-canvas in the fashion that Pollock pioneered [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[294,296,292,291,293,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/heroesinrehab.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}