{"id":4574,"date":"2026-09-17T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/?p=4574"},"modified":"2026-09-16T15:20:59","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T19:20:59","slug":"sketch-of-the-week-watermelon-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/2026\/09\/sketch-of-the-week-watermelon-man\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rage of the Watermelon (Sketch of the Week for Week 37 of 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“Fruit Faces” was my follow up to Pear Week<\/a>. Again, there is a lot to be said for “volunteer,” garden, and farmer’s market fruit as reference models; they have much more character than what’s on display at a civilized grocery store.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

‘course, now I desperately want to hear a mash-up of Julie London’s version of “Watermelon Man<\/a>” and basically anything from Rage Against the Machine<\/a>. Is there an AI 🤖✨ that can poop that out for me real quick? Or perhaps do one of you fancy folks have a musical inclination toward such perversion? If so, please send your artistic jipes and musical tomfoollery to dave@davideriknelson.com<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“Fruit Faces” was my follow up to Pear Week. Again, there is a lot to be said for “volunteer,” garden, and farmer’s market fruit as reference models; they have much more character than what’s on display at a civilized grocery store. ‘course, now I desperately want to hear a mash-up of Julie London’s version of … Continue reading “The Rage of the Watermelon (Sketch of the Week for Week 37 of 2026)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_share_on_mastodon":"1"},"categories":[1021,1022],"tags":[113,1026,904,572,168,1025,1024,1223],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/a2mi.social\/@dave0\/117287020855638517","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4574"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4577,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4574\/revisions\/4577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davideriknelson.com\/sbsb\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}