{"id":27545,"date":"2011-05-17T10:48:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T17:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/?p=27545"},"modified":"2011-05-17T07:31:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-17T14:31:24","slug":"graphic-design-and-standup-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/27545","title":{"rendered":"Graphic design and standup comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/B\/Martin_StandingUp.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Well, I see it this way. I&#8217;ve been using my time <a href=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/13355\">listening to the greats<\/a> and nights spent in comedy clubs as part of my teaching &#8216;act&#8217; for years now. And after reading Steve Martin&#8217;s <em><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/j7yU25\">Born Standing Up<\/a><\/em> and all the <em>insane prep<\/em> he did to do what he did (never realized how <em>neurotically obsessive<\/em> he was), it all seems to resonate.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Bierut &#8211; who had one of the best lines in the <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/mIdhgu\" target=\"_blank\">Helvetica film<\/a> &#8211; takes <a href=\"http:\/\/observersroom.designobserver.com\/oblog\/post\/seven-things-designers-can-learn-from-stand-up-comics\/27038\/\" target=\"_blank\">a look at the parallels between hard work as a designer and a comedian.<\/a> Great read for anyone working in a creative field.<\/p>\n\r\n\t<div style=\"float: left; \">\r\n\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-text=\"Graphic design and standup comedy\" data-url=\"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/archives\/27545\"  data-via=\"mehallo\">Tweet<\/a>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n\t<script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I see it this way. I&#8217;ve been using my time listening to the greats and nights spent in comedy clubs as part of my teaching &#8216;act&#8217; for years now. And after reading Steve Martin&#8217;s Born Standing Up and all the insane prep he did to do what he did (never realized how neurotically obsessive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,50,53],"tags":[121,58],"class_list":["post-27545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finds","category-design","category-thoughts","tag-design","tag-graphic-design"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27545"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27552,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27545\/revisions\/27552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mehallo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}