{"id":3111,"date":"2016-01-09T13:09:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-09T20:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/?p=3111"},"modified":"2016-01-10T20:09:34","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T03:09:34","slug":"mr-kite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/?p=3111","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Kite"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mrkite2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

click on image for larger view:<\/p>\n

Title: For the Benefit of Mr. Kite<\/strong>
\nArtist:Deryk Houston
\nMedium:acrylic on canvas
\nSize: 36″X72″<\/p>\n

Story: I am interested in how artists get inspiration and I like how
\nJohn Lennon bounced ideas off an old 1843 circus poster he found in a
\nshop which inspired him to write the song, “For the Benefit of Mr.
\nKite”. The lyrics were very much what was on the poster.<\/p>\n

In this series I have gone with that idea. If an association leaps into
\nmy brain I just go with it and include it into the work. Sort of like
\n\u201cGoing with the force\u201d:)<\/p>\n

You can also view a 3 minute video clip of my work related to the Beatles and how we can change our world one small corner at a time.\u00a0https:\/\/youtu.be\/Bm5DIIpYmAE<\/a><\/p>\n

Lyrics
\nhttp:\/\/www.lyricsfreak.com\/b\/beatles\/being+for+the+benefit+of+mr+kite_10026437.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Youtubes of the song:<\/p>\n

Beatles record the song in 1967
\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=V1-hCX27D5E<\/a><\/p>\n

Paul McCartney performs live in Brazil:
\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=AGhafdBEdU4<\/a><\/p>\n

Scene from \u201cAcross the Universe\u201d where Mr. Kite is featured
\nhttps:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=59ahx9ckqIw<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Painting inspired by the Beatles Love cirque du soleil […]<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3111"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3168,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3111\/revisions\/3168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.derykhouston.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}