{"id":21125,"date":"2016-09-28T10:35:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T14:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=21125"},"modified":"2019-11-26T10:02:57","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T15:02:57","slug":"unintentional-spin-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2016\/09\/28\/unintentional-spin-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Unintentional Spin-Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Waste Ink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/29358335733\/in\/datetaken\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/c6.staticflickr.com\/9\/8645\/29358335733_c5ff406d90_z.jpg?resize=640%2C426&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Waste Ink\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>Remember <em>Spin-Art<\/em> concessions at carnivals or at the Jersey Shore? It&#8217;s the first thing I thought of when I looked into a 55 gallon drum of waste ink at a local printer. <a href=\"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/10\/19\/15-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Psychedelic, man!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember Spin-Art concessions at carnivals or at the Jersey Shore? It&#8217;s the first thing I thought of when I looked into a 55 gallon drum of waste ink at a local printer. Psychedelic, man!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[120],"tags":[1343,3964,3962,32,906,3963,2942],"class_list":["post-21125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curious-clutter","tag-color","tag-drum","tag-groovy","tag-hippie","tag-ink","tag-spin-art","tag-waste"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-5uJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42659,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2024\/03\/12\/tuesday-digital-doodle-gritty-city\/","url_meta":{"origin":21125,"position":0},"title":"Tuesday Digital Doodle \u2022 Gritty City","author":"Joe","date":"March 12, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in the '80s, there were a number of guys in art school playing with grayscale textures created by flicking a toothbrush loaded with ink onto a piece of bristol or illustration board. 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