{"id":80665,"date":"2020-05-11T18:42:46","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T16:42:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.www.maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/?p=80665"},"modified":"2020-05-11T18:53:19","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T16:53:19","slug":"illustrator-of-the-month-todd-cole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/2020\/05\/default\/illustrator-of-the-month-todd-cole\/","title":{"rendered":"Illustrator of the month: Todd Cole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Do you remember the first picture you\u2019ve ever taken? What was it? Would you mind sharing it with us ?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I do not remember the very first picture I made, but I do remember the first time I made images excited me, and that I felt were of certain quality. \u00a0These photographs were the first images that felt like true personal expression, and gave me confidence that I may have something to say with photography. \u00a0I grew up in Houston Texas and have always loved the myths of the American cowboy. \u00a0After moving to LA, I decided to return to Houston to photograph the annual rodeo that took place in the iconic Houston Astrodome. \u00a0I fabricated a press pass and rented a 16mm Bolex camera and bluffed my way on to the area floor. \u00a0I photographed the cowboys bronc busting, the cowgirls racing around barrels on their horses, \u00a0and the bull riders. \u00a0It was an incredible experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember the first picture you\u2019ve ever taken? What was it? Would you mind sharing it with us ? I do not remember the&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80665"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80665"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80683,"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80665\/revisions\/80683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maisonkitsune.com\/mk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}