{"id":3386,"date":"2014-12-27T16:39:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-27T15:39:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/t-machine.org\/?p=3386"},"modified":"2014-12-28T18:52:09","modified_gmt":"2014-12-28T17:52:09","slug":"a-whiteboard-xmas-card-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/2014\/12\/27\/a-whiteboard-xmas-card-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"A Whiteboard Xmas Card for everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"

What can you draw with a whiteboard, if you’re not an artist? Let’s see..<\/p>\n

Many of my friends live on different continents. It was too late to post cards, and I was staring blindly at my whiteboard when I had an idea: A picture for everyone, photographed, emailed … Then wiped clean. A transitory, ephemeral, virtual gift made out of something physical and real.<\/p>\n

(there’s a background to this, see below the images)<\/p>\n

PS: apologies for variable quality – I was doing these as fast as possible, trying to get them out same day (Xmas Day).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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If you didn’t get one, well … Maybe you should keep in touch more, my friend!<\/p>\n

But seriously: I’m not finished yet. Watch your inbox.<\/p>\n

Background<\/h2>\n

This Christmas, I did my first serious drawing\/painting in 15 years, as a gift for someone. I was surprised (actually: stunned) how well it came out. Unfortunately, it wasn’t appreciated.<\/p>\n

I wanted to make something positive out of it, anything. I’d poured too much time into that, and too much care, to write it off and move on.<\/p>\n

Here’s the results. I took the theme of my original hand-made card: an image specific to the recipient, something that they (and their close friends) would recognize and understand immediately.<\/p>\n

There’s a few that tie obviously to well-known people in Web, Education, Games industries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What can you draw with a whiteboard, if you’re not an artist? Let’s see.. Many of my friends live on different continents. It was too late to post cards, and I was staring blindly at my whiteboard when I had an idea: A picture for everyone, photographed, emailed … Then wiped clean. A transitory, ephemeral, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3386"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3435,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3386\/revisions\/3435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/new.t-machine.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}