{"id":2655,"date":"2010-12-31T10:25:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T14:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2655"},"modified":"2010-12-31T10:25:58","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T14:25:58","slug":"christmas-card-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2655","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Card 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the year coming to a close and Christmas fading into the past, I guess it&#8217;s safe to post our Christmas card from this year.\u00a0 We actually managed to mail out the physical cards the week before Christmas this year, so anyone that&#8217;s been mailed a card has had it in their mitts for a while.<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago (maybe seven) I started doing custom Christmas cards and now I guess I&#8217;m committed to doing one every year.\u00a0 I used to silk-screen them, but with the demise of the Gocco (and me being to lazy to do a &#8220;real&#8221; silk-screen) I wound up doing color copied cards last year.\u00a0 This proved to be a bit of a crisitunity though, since I realized that I now no longer\u00a0 have to confine myself to drawn images.<\/p>\n<p>This year I decided to do a parody of the classic album cover of The Beatles record <em>Meet the Beatles<\/em>.\u00a0 Despite not having to hand silk-screen anything, the card was a real challenge for me since I know next to nothing about photography and I had to learn how to work some of the non-point and shoot features of my camera.\u00a0 Anyway, here&#8217;s the final result:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/12\/towle_fraser_xmas_final.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2656\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=2656\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/12\/towle_fraser_xmas_final.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,966\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"towle_fraser_xmas_final\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/12\/towle_fraser_xmas_final.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2656\" title=\"towle_fraser_xmas_final\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/12\/towle_fraser_xmas_final-300x289.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/12\/towle_fraser_xmas_final-300x289.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/12\/towle_fraser_xmas_final.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>&#8230;and the original cover:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/12\/MeetTheBeatles2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2657\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=2657\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/12\/MeetTheBeatles2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,900\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"MeetTheBeatles2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/12\/MeetTheBeatles2.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2657\" title=\"MeetTheBeatles2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/12\/MeetTheBeatles2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/12\/MeetTheBeatles2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/12\/MeetTheBeatles2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/12\/MeetTheBeatles2.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the year coming to a close and Christmas fading into the past, I guess it&#8217;s safe to post our Christmas card from this year.\u00a0 We actually managed to mail out the physical cards the week before Christmas this year, so anyone that&#8217;s been mailed a card has had it in their mitts for a &hellip; 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