{"id":1171,"date":"2006-01-02T00:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-02T04:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2021-03-07T18:01:09","modified_gmt":"2021-03-07T22:01:09","slug":"rafael-kayanan-and-lord-of-the-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=1171","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Kayanan and Lord of the Rings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stallonezone.com\/z010106kayanan_lotr_small.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stallonezone.com\/z010106kayanan_lotr_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I first met <b><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Rafael Kayanan<\/span><\/b> somewhere around <b>thirty years<\/b> ago. He was a young aspiring artist. But even then he had the talent and you just knew that this kid was going to make it.<\/div>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">And boy, did he make it!<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\"><b>Raf<\/b>&#8216;s had quite an interesting career so far. He&#8217;s worked for most <b>major comic publishers<\/b>, served as a<b> fight trainer<\/b> on <b>George Clooney<\/b>&#8216;s <b>&#8220;Confessions of a Dangerous Mind;&#8221;<\/b> did the <b>storyboards<\/b>, served as a<b> trainer<\/b>, <b>technical advisor<\/b> and <b>fight choreographer<\/b> on <b>&#8220;The Hunted&#8221; <\/b>starring <b>Tommy Lee Jones<\/b> and<b> Benicio del Toro<\/b>; worked on developmental art for the upcoming <b>&#8220;Princess of Mars&#8221;<\/b> movie&#8230; and so much more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">I recently touched base with <b>Raf<\/b> and found out he&#8217;d just completed art on <b>250<\/b> <b>Lord of the Rings<\/b> collector cards which will be out in <b>February<\/b>. He sent me a scan and permission to share it &#8212; so click <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stallonezone.com\/z010106kayanan_lotr_samp.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">HERE<\/span><\/a><\/b> to see the larger version.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bodytext\" style=\"font-family: arial; text-align: justify;\">I don&#8217;t know about you, but I think that someday this kid may go places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first met Rafael Kayanan somewhere around thirty years ago. He was a young aspiring artist. But even then he<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[58,56,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-comics","category-movies","comments-off"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25438,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/25438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}