{"id":344,"date":"2004-11-12T10:09:51","date_gmt":"2004-11-12T18:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/wordpress\/?p=344"},"modified":"2004-11-12T10:09:51","modified_gmt":"2004-11-12T18:09:51","slug":"painting-of-la-hampa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/12\/painting-of-la-hampa\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting of La Hampa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/lahampa.jpg\" width=400 height=266 border=0 alt=&#039;&#039;><\/p>\n<p>This is a painting I worked on for about six months.  It&#039;s another possible vision of what Bela, Paul and Alma will find when they go to La Hampa.  That name, I should explain, is Spanish for &#8220;the underworld&#8221; in the gangland sense.  But I&#039;d like it to be more like a Disney Alice in Wonderland.  Signs pointing to, like, &#8220;Last Week.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I wanted the duck to look like Valantin le Desosse in the famous Lautrec poster, not that I can draw a figure properly, and on the right, that&#039;s like a limo with a star arriving.  I had a lot of trouble making the green potato guy <i>not<\/i> look like Puffy Combs.<\/p>\n<p>To try and get a non-premeditated image, I based the design of this picture on a cellular automaton image I had, of Belousov-Zhabotinski scrolls, made with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/oldhomepage\/capow\/index.html\">my Capow software.<\/a> (I think it was an Winfree rule.)  I started with that, and the characters emerged after a lot of layers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/lahampabz.jpg\" width=400 height=250 border=0 alt=&#039;&#039;><\/p>\n<p>Like I said before, the Duck is everywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#039;s a link to all of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/oldhomepage\/links.htm\">Rudy&#039;s paintings<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a painting I worked on for about six months. It&#039;s another possible vision of what Bela, Paul and Alma will find when they go to La Hampa. That name, I should explain, is Spanish for &#8220;the underworld&#8221; in the gangland sense. But I&#039;d like it to be more like a Disney Alice in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}