{"id":995,"date":"2009-10-05T00:52:54","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T23:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/?p=995"},"modified":"2009-10-05T00:52:54","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T23:52:54","slug":"the-thing-in-steel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/2009\/10\/05\/the-thing-in-steel\/","title":{"rendered":"The Thing in Steel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/10\/THING4way.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"998\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/2009\/10\/05\/the-thing-in-steel\/thing4way\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/10\/THING4way.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1024,1005\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"THING4way\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/10\/THING4way-300x294.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/10\/THING4way.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-998\" title=\"THING4way\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/10\/THING4way.jpg\" alt=\"THING4way\" width=\"645\" height=\"634\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/10\/THING4way.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/10\/THING4way-300x294.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2009\/10\/THING4way-624x612.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This 2ft tall 400lb steel bust of the ever lovin&#8217; blue eyed <strong>Thing<\/strong> is by Wisconsin steel fabricator <a href=\"http:\/\/brokenhill.deviantart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve F\/BrokenHill<\/a>. Ben Grimm and Jack Kirby&#8217;s work have been a major influences on Steve&#8217;s art ever since 6th grade. You can follow the evolution of this <em>fantastic<\/em> piece over at the PencilJack <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penciljack.com\/forum\/showthread.php?t=88198&amp;highlight=steel\" target=\"_blank\">forum<\/a>, where you can also find some of Steve&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.penciljack.com\/forum\/showthread.php?t=84741\" target=\"_blank\">drawings<\/a>. Additionally,\u00a0be sure to take a look at Steve&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/brokenhill.deviantart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">DeviantArt<\/a> page where you&#8217;ll find more of his steelwork sculpture.<\/p>\n<p>Kirby-Vision would like to thank Andy Bennett for the link to BrokenHill&#8217;s work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This 2ft tall 400lb steel bust of the ever lovin&#8217; blue eyed Thing is by Wisconsin steel fabricator Steve F\/BrokenHill. Ben Grimm and Jack Kirby&#8217;s work have been a major influences on Steve&#8217;s art ever since 6th grade. You can follow the evolution of this fantastic piece over at the PencilJack forum, where you can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":[63,435],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brokenhill","category-the-thing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby-vision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}