{"id":829,"date":"2011-08-19T14:00:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T18:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/?p=829"},"modified":"2011-08-19T07:31:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T11:31:14","slug":"friday-eye-candy-the-guitars-of-the-sunset-strip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2011\/08\/19\/friday-eye-candy-the-guitars-of-the-sunset-strip\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Eye Candy: The Guitars of the Sunset Strip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday, have some pretty things to look at! These guitars are part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gibson.com\/Sunset-Strip\/\">Guitar Town Sunset Strip<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gibson.com\/en-us\/Lifestyle\/ArtistsAndEvents\/Stories\/sunset-strip-0817\/\">public art installation<\/a> sponsored by the Gibson Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Gibson guitars. According to the Gibson website the exhibit was supposed to last six months and then the guitars would be sold at auction and the proceeds given to charity; that was in August 2010, and, uh, a lot of them are still there. In any case, here are the ones I managed to capture:<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_9852 by rufusowliebat, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rufusowliebat\/6047712821\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6194\/6047712821_581c507f8d_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9852\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_9873 by rufusowliebat, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rufusowliebat\/6047718677\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6063\/6047718677_ba3279039c_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9873\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_9875 by rufusowliebat, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rufusowliebat\/6048271608\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6087\/6048271608_c4b5fe9046_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9875\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_9857 by rufusowliebat, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rufusowliebat\/6047716125\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6198\/6047716125_363f4d0728_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9857\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_9864 by rufusowliebat, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rufusowliebat\/6048270420\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6202\/6048270420_73489b00c2_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9864\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_9866 by rufusowliebat, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rufusowliebat\/6047716673\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6065\/6047716673_2ba9803bc0_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9866\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_0582 by rufusowliebat, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rufusowliebat\/6048266898\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6210\/6048266898_d95f8a72df_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0582\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"IMG_0583 by rufusowliebat, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rufusowliebat\/6047713437\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm7.static.flickr.com\/6069\/6047713437_16894f4a70_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_0583\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday, have some pretty things to look at! These guitars are part of Guitar Town Sunset Strip, a public art installation sponsored by the Gibson Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Gibson guitars. According to the Gibson website the exhibit was supposed to last six months and then the guitars &#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2011\/08\/19\/friday-eye-candy-the-guitars-of-the-sunset-strip\/\"> Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[428],"tags":[679,680,678,681],"class_list":["post-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rock-n-roll-photog-2","tag-friday-eye-candy","tag-guitar-town","tag-public-art","tag-sunset-strip"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Friday Eye Candy: The Guitars of the Sunset Strip -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nowthissound.com\/ntsib\/2011\/08\/19\/friday-eye-candy-the-guitars-of-the-sunset-strip\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Friday Eye Candy: The Guitars of the Sunset Strip -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It&#8217;s Friday, have some pretty things to look at! 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