{"id":3433,"date":"2011-08-09T22:14:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T02:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3433"},"modified":"2011-08-09T15:31:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T19:31:01","slug":"portrait-night-89-steve-albini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3433","title":{"rendered":"Portrait Night 8\/9 (Steve Albini)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing my series of #PortraitNight drawings of musicians from <em>Our Band Could be Your Life<\/em> is tonight&#8217;s subject: Big Black front-man and all-around indie rock gadfly Steve Albini. This isn&#8217;t the greatest likeness, but it was one of my favorites so far to do. Unlike previous subjects like Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye, there&#8217;s a wonderful visual disconnect between Albini&#8217;s personality and his appearance and I really enjoyed trying to capture that. It totally kills me that the guy who lead bands like Big Black and Rapeman <em>looks<\/em> like he should be at home in his basement building a Heathkit\/Zenith computer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/08\/steve_albini.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3434\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=3434\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/08\/steve_albini.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,1387\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"steve_albini\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/08\/steve_albini-216x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/08\/steve_albini-738x1024.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3434\" title=\"steve_albini\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/08\/steve_albini-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/08\/steve_albini-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/08\/steve_albini-738x1024.jpg 738w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/08\/steve_albini.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/08\/bbfx2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3435\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?attachment_id=3435\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/08\/bbfx2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"450,393\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"bbfx2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/08\/bbfx2-300x262.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/08\/bbfx2.jpg\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3435\" title=\"bbfx2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/08\/bbfx2-300x262.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/08\/bbfx2-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2011\/08\/bbfx2.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>If you\u2019d like to suggest a #PortraitNight subject, you can do so either via the comments section here, or via my<a title=\"Ben Towle - Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#%21\/ben_towle\" target=\"_blank\"> Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing my series of #PortraitNight drawings of musicians from Our Band Could be Your Life is tonight&#8217;s subject: Big Black front-man and all-around indie rock gadfly Steve Albini. This isn&#8217;t the greatest likeness, but it was one of my favorites so far to do. Unlike previous subjects like Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye, there&#8217;s a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=3433\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,31],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-Tn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3437,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions\/3437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}