{"id":619,"date":"2011-05-20T18:21:48","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T18:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/?p=619"},"modified":"2011-05-20T18:21:48","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T18:21:48","slug":"korben-dallas-does-heath-ledger-joker-graffiti-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/05\/20\/korben-dallas-does-heath-ledger-joker-graffiti-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Korben Dallas does Heath Ledger Joker graffiti commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Joker-Commission-May-2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-620\" title=\"Joker-Commission-May-2011\" src=\"http:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Joker-Commission-May-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Joker-Commission-May-2011.jpg 540w, https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Joker-Commission-May-2011-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Why so serious?<\/em> Heath Ledger's legendary portrayal of Batman\u00a0character, the Joker has quickly become an icon of pop culture since Director, Christopher Nolan brought it to the silver screen in 2008. I was asked to paint a mural of the Joker by a local kid who had seen my graffiti and liked my style. I was honoured to be asked of such a task. I had spaceships on my wall when I was a kid, who am I to deny today's generation the same privilege?<\/p>\n<p>I am particularly proud of this painting. I used 8 different shades of paint including a rich red that I mixed myself. \u00a0It was also a great pleasure to paint on a flat wall, covered with newly hung wallpaper and a fresh coast of emulsion. It was the smoothest surface I have ever used, no mortar or brick texture to upset the path of the paint.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why so serious? Heath Ledger&#8217;s legendary portrayal of Batman\u00a0character, the Joker has quickly become an icon of pop culture since Director, Christopher Nolan brought it to the silver screen in 2008. I was asked to paint a mural of the Joker by a local kid who had seen my graffiti and liked my style. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":622,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinjoiner.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}