{"id":2532,"date":"2010-10-25T22:55:39","date_gmt":"2010-10-26T08:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/?p=2532"},"modified":"2010-10-25T22:55:39","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T08:55:39","slug":"wall-to-wall-sunflowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wall-to-wall-sunflowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Wall-to-Wall sunflowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/seeds02.jpghttp:\/\/www.toxel.com\/inspiration\/2010\/10\/16\/floor-covered-with-sunflower-seeds\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2533\" title=\"seeds02\" src=\"http:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/seeds02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"562\" srcset=\"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/seeds02.jpg 450w, https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/seeds02-240x300.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I saw this Tate exhibit mentioned on a few sites a couple weeks back. Originally my gut reaction was to roll my eyes &#8220;another stupid exhibit pitched as art&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But it wasn&#8217;t until seeing the video that I kind of see the point of this. Apparently each one of these one hundred million seeds were hand crafted by 1600 artisans in a small chinese town that once designed pieces for royalty. Today many of them are out of work.<\/p>\n<p>I especially admired some of the old-school Chinese techniques they demonstrated in the video.<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"306\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PueYywpkJW8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"306\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/PueYywpkJW8?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Being Chinese myself, I must say&#8230;man when we do something, we do it big don&#8217;t we? (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.toxel.com\/inspiration\/2010\/10\/16\/floor-covered-with-sunflower-seeds\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toxel<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this Tate exhibit mentioned on a few sites a couple weeks back. Originally my gut reaction was to roll my eyes &#8220;another stupid exhibit pitched as art&#8221;. But it wasn&#8217;t until seeing the video that I kind of see the point of this. Apparently each one of these one hundred million seeds were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2532"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2535,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions\/2535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raphaellowe.com\/portal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}