{"id":193,"date":"2006-02-13T23:33:41","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T23:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchbooks.com\/invis\/wordpress\/?p=193"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:22:59","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:22:59","slug":"illo-for-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2006\/02\/illo-for-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Illo for The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"audio_hallucination-500.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/archives\/audio_hallucination-500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"390\" \/><br \/>\nI have an illustration in Tuesday&#8217;s Science section of <i>The New York Times<\/i> (2\/13\/06). The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/02\/14\/health\/14case.html?pagewanted=all\" target=\"new\">story<\/a> was written by a Parkinson&#8217;s patient, who suffers from &#8220;audio illusions&#8221; as a side effect of his medication (or perhaps just because of the Parkinson&#8217;s). A woman laughing too loud in a restaurant is transformed into a neighing horse, and a man with a booming voice becomes a circus ringleader with a megaphone.<br \/>\nThis was strange, fascinating story to draw. I chose not to feature the primary &#8216;illusion&#8217; of the story, Marilyn Monroe singing &#8220;Happy Birthday Mr. President&#8221;, though it probably would have gone with the headline more. The author experiences illusions that his brain creates after hearing real sounds, which I felt was best represented by the more surreal laughing horse-lady and ringleader in the restaurant. I&#8217;m most satisfied with the composition, as I really wanted the shape of the room to appear as &#8216;sound waves&#8217; focusing in on his ear&#8230;<br \/>\nAlso, my palette for this was fully inspired by the electric gouache paintings of the master <a href=\"http:\/\/louromano.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"new\">Lou Romano<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have an illustration in Tuesday&#8217;s Science section of The New York Times (2\/13\/06). The story was written by a Parkinson&#8217;s patient, who suffers from &#8220;audio illusions&#8221; as a side effect of his medication (or perhaps just because of the Parkinson&#8217;s). A woman laughing too loud in a restaurant is transformed into a neighing horse, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1762,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}