{"id":666,"date":"2007-04-11T17:41:53","date_gmt":"2007-04-11T21:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=666"},"modified":"2007-04-11T17:43:12","modified_gmt":"2007-04-11T21:43:12","slug":"baseball-2005-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=666","title":{"rendered":"Baseball: 2005 in Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I was moving all of my portfolios of old artwork into some awesome new shelves I&#8217;ve just had built in my studio and I decided to go through them (the portfolios) and ditch as much stuff as possible before I stored them again.  Mainly what I got rid of were tons and tons of the originals for several years worth of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.trainedchimp.com\">freelance work<\/a>.  This stuff was just taking up space, and I&#8217;ve got it all on my computer anyway&#8211;so, other than a few pieces that turned out especially well, the bulk of this stuff left this morning for parts unknown via the Winston-Salem recycling pick-up.<\/p>\n<p>One thing I stumbled across that I had almost forgotten about were the originals for this two page story about baseball that I&#8217;d been hired to do by GQ Magazine in 2005.  The strip was intended to appear in the magazine&#8217;s 2005 year-end roundup issue, but got first pushed to a possible spring issue (to coincide with the start of spring training), then was ultimately killed before it got to the ink and color stage, and never appeared in print.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure what I make of it at this point, other that a lot of it seems somewhat forced to me.  My natural &#8220;mode&#8221; is not really the introspective\/expository tone that the editor wanted, and I had a hard time getting what he was after.  My original pitch (pun intended) was a Ken Burns documentary parody that went over like the proverbial lead balloon.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"baseball_1.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2007\/04\/baseball_1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"baseball_1.jpg\" id=\"image664\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2007\/04\/baseball_1.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"baseball_2.jpg\" class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2007\/04\/baseball_2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"baseball_2.jpg\" id=\"image665\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2007\/04\/baseball_2.thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"baseball_2.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2007\/04\/baseball_2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"imagelink\" title=\"baseball_2.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2007\/04\/baseball_2.jpg\"> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I was moving all of my portfolios of old artwork into some awesome new shelves I&#8217;ve just had built in my studio and I decided to go through them (the portfolios) and ditch as much stuff as possible before I stored them again. Mainly what I got rid of were tons and tons &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=666\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[3],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-aK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666"}],"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=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}