{"id":20959,"date":"2016-08-10T05:37:30","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T09:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=20959"},"modified":"2016-08-10T05:37:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-10T09:37:30","slug":"sam-eric-theater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/08\/10\/sam-eric-theater\/","title":{"rendered":"Sam Eric Theater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Sam Eric Theater\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/28596140220\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c5.staticflickr.com\/9\/8730\/28596140220_945926c875_z.jpg?resize=640%2C422&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Sam Eric Theater\" width=\"640\" height=\"422\" \/><\/a>This isn&#8217;t really part of <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/category\/the-photo-elective\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Photo Elective<\/em><\/a> series in that it wasn&#8217;t part of that elective course that all illustration majors at <em>The Philadelphia College of Art<\/em> were required to take, but I did use the same <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Single-lens_reflex_camera\" target=\"_blank\">SLR camera<\/a> and it was part of a school assignment. Rather than rely on the paltry image selection in the school&#8217;s library, it was easier to load film into a camera and take reference photos oneself. That&#8217;s what I did here although I don&#8217;t recall the illustration assignment at all, but I am glad I took the shot because the theater\u00a0 has long since closed.<\/p>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This isn&#8217;t really part of The Photo Elective series in that it wasn&#8217;t part of that elective course that all illustration majors at The Philadelphia College of Art were required to take, but I did use the same SLR camera &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/08\/10\/sam-eric-theater\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[104,3340],"tags":[355,158,5,354,3669,137,1372,480,336],"class_list":["post-20959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philadelphia","category-the-photo-elective","tag-35mm","tag-analog","tag-joe-williams","tag-pennsylvania","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-college-of-art","tag-scan","tag-usa","tag-vintage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5s3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38486,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2022\/08\/13\/caturday-29\/","url_meta":{"origin":20959,"position":0},"title":"Caturday","author":"Joe","date":"August 13, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a combination Caturday \/ Photo Elective post. Illustration majors at the school formerly known as The Philadelphia Collage of Art were required to take a photography elective where students would shoot 35mm film; process the film and make prints from the negatives. 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