{"id":425,"date":"2008-02-14T14:37:19","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T22:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=425"},"modified":"2008-02-28T09:00:50","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T17:00:50","slug":"ian-johnson-owes-it-all-to-skateboarding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"Ian Johnson Owes It All To Skateboarding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/ns-visualart14064-mk.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/ns-visualart14064-mk.jpg','popup','width=580,height=399,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/ns-visualart14064-mk-tm.jpg\" height=\"292\" width=\"425\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ns Visualart14064 Mk\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/02\/14\/NSRGV0HBJ.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a><\/em><\/strong> profiled <strong>Ian Johnson<\/strong> today mentioning that art school dropout has work being &#8220;featured right now at San Francisco&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitewallssf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">White Walls Gallery<\/a><\/strong>, another show is coming up in Tokyo in May and a book on his art is due in August.&#8221; And Ian says he owes it all to skateboarding.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Skateboarding is entirely responsible for where I am right now with my art career,&#8221; says Johnson, who is known for his detailed portraits of authors and jazz music icons from the &#8217;40s, &#8217;50s and &#8217;60s. &#8220;I&#8217;ve always been into art but never really considered it as a career until Western Edition launched.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Click the link for the rest of the story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2008\/02\/14\/NSRGV0HBJ.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The San Francisco Chronicle profiled Ian Johnson today mentioning that art school dropout has work being &#8220;featured right now at San Francisco&#8217;s White Walls Gallery, another show is coming up in Tokyo in May and a book on his art is due in August.&#8221; And Ian says he owes it all to skateboarding. &#8220;Skateboarding is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}