{"id":1374,"date":"2012-01-06T18:18:06","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T23:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2012-01-06T18:18:06","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T23:18:06","slug":"game-changer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/game-changer\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Changer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As everyone who knows me knows, I have become intensely interested in the US Presidents in the last couple of years. Primarily, I am interested in these people as men. You know, people who have favorite foods, and love their pets. I am thinking about these dudes quite a bit.<\/p>\n

A different interest that I have is making thing with my hands. It was only a matter of time before these two things married (or at least got on a path of intermittent passionate trysts). So describes the above painting.<\/p>\n

How did I do it? I found a picture of one of the Kennedy-Nixon debates. Then I played around with it in Photoshop Elements until I wound up with an image that I liked. I printed that out and then transferred the main lines onto a canvas (with the help of some carbon paper) and painted it in. I decided that the canvas itself would be a television set. So, I looked around for images of TVs from the appropriate era to figure out where various knobs, buttons, or dials should go.<\/p>\n

For those who don’t know, the Nixon-Kennedy debates were the first televised presidential candidate debates. They were\u00a0 significant to the outcome of this particular election, and really “changed the game” so-to-speak in presidential campaigning. Interestingly, at the end of the first televised debate, television audiences thought that Kennedy had won. Radio audiences, however, thought that Nixon had won. Here, I cannot resist adding that these debates helped Kennedy build up his image as a fresh, youthful, vigorous leader, when, in fact,\u00a0 he was very ill. Kennedy had suffered poor health his entire life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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