{"id":1201,"date":"2011-03-01T19:37:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T00:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rreynoso.com\/blog\/?p=1201"},"modified":"2011-03-01T19:38:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T00:38:18","slug":"espn-rises-video-game-issue-with-alvin-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/sweet-nothings\/espn-rises-video-game-issue-with-alvin-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"ESPN Rise&#8217;s Video Game Issue with Alvin Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During the holiday season over at my shop in <a href=\"http:\/\/rise.espn.go.com\/\">ESPN Rise<\/a> we decided to do something a little bit different with our National Video Game Issue: get an illustrator. Usually we use awesome photography by the industry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best, but this time we wanted to tap the talent of Street Fighter video game acclaim <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alvinleeart.com\/2011\/02\/espn-rise-magazine-on-the-stands-now\/\">Alvin Lee<\/a> (and the color genius of <a href=\"http:\/\/monk-art.deviantart.com\/\">Fabian Schlaga<\/a> to go buck wild with their illustrative awesomeness.<\/p>\n<p>As our article over at the ESPN Rise website says: <a href=\"http:\/\/rise.espn.go.com\/all-sports\/articles\/games\/2011\/01\/25-MAG-p25-cover-story.aspx\">the idea was simple<\/a>. We took four of the best players and video-gameized them in a battle against the Robots. Or the Aliens. Whatever. The point was to make these guys look freaking awesomer. You can check out Alvin Lee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/album.php?id=881510706&amp;aid=611268\">Facebook<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicsalliance.com\/2011\/03\/01\/udon-alvin-lee-espn-redesigns\/\">Comic Alliance<\/a> for some biggie sized images you can read the <a href=\"http:\/\/rise.espn.go.com\/all-sports\/articles\/games\/2011\/01\/25-MAG-p25-cover-story.aspx\">ESPN Rise articles<\/a> about these great players (<a href=\"http:\/\/rise.espn.go.com\/all-sports\/articles\/games\/2011\/01\/25-MAG-p26-cover-story.aspx\">Nick Vena<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/rise.espn.go.com\/all-sports\/articles\/games\/2011\/01\/25-MAG-p27-cover-story.aspx\">Jadeveon Clowney<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/rise.espn.go.com\/all-sports\/articles\/games\/2011\/01\/25-MAG-p28-cover-story.aspx\">Daniel Norris<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/rise.espn.go.com\/all-sports\/articles\/games\/2011\/01\/25-MAG-p29-cover-story.aspx\">Michael Gilchrist<\/a>) \u00c2\u00a0 . Images after the jump.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_1_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_2_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_3_placeholder\nngg_shortcode_4_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the holiday season over at my shop in ESPN Rise we decided to do something a little bit different with our National Video Game Issue: get an illustrator. Usually we use awesome photography by the industry\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s best, but this time we wanted to tap the talent of Street Fighter video game acclaim Alvin Lee [&hellip;]<\/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":[3,1],"tags":[409,410,411],"class_list":["post-1201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-sweet-nothings","tag-alvin-lee","tag-artwork","tag-espnrise"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1201"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1207,"href":"https:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1201\/revisions\/1207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rreynoso.com\/reysapoint\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}