{"id":159,"date":"2005-10-15T21:36:03","date_gmt":"2005-10-15T21:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/?p=159"},"modified":"2015-08-13T12:50:01","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T01:50:01","slug":"the-salmon-thirty-salmon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/2005\/10\/15\/the-salmon-thirty-salmon\/","title":{"rendered":"The Salmon-Thirty-Salmon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of painting a king salmon on the fuselage of an Alaskan Airlines 373 has been roundly criticized, but the <del>image<\/del> is pretty cool. The designer was <del>Mark Boyle<\/del>, a Seattle-based wildlife artist who is also a recognized leader in the livery design of commercial aircraft. Alaskan Airlines has some pictures that show <del>the painting in progressive stages<\/del>, which took a crew of 30 painters 24 days.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Salmon\" src=\"http:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/blog\/salmon.jpg\" alt=\"Salmon\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The image above was taken by Ted S. Warren for Associated Press, and shows airbrush artist Chris Coakley at work on the painting.<\/p>\n<p>I was just then reminded of this wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/ftimages\/2003\/11\/28\/1069825963447.html\">image of Aragorn<\/a>. It takes a second to work it out. It appeared on the side of a NZ Boeing as part of celebrations around the release of the last of the Lord of the Rings trilogy of movies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Updated 2015<\/strong>: broken links. Also, there is a second version as of 2012, called the <a href=\"http:\/\/stuckattheairport.com\/2012\/10\/05\/worlds-largest-salmon-lands-in-anchorage\/\">Salmon-Thirty-Salmon II<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Hsd8-EESesI?list=PLgt56E62MhBswVly9aCZu8mlQ61zuMs37\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cost of painting a king salmon on the fuselage of an Alaskan Airlines 373 has been roundly criticized, but the image is pretty cool. The designer was Mark Boyle, a Seattle-based wildlife artist who is also a recognized leader in the livery design of commercial aircraft. Alaskan Airlines has some pictures that show the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[102,20,9],"tags":[382,383,1384,379,1371,380,381],"class_list":["post-159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-make","category-visual-art","tag-382","tag-aragorn","tag-art","tag-king-salmon","tag-make","tag-painting","tag-plane"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paZhI-2z","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3449,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/3449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritsdancing.com\/sdblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}