{"id":661,"date":"2012-10-09T21:12:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-09T20:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/?p=661"},"modified":"2012-10-16T20:20:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T19:20:00","slug":"what-kept-you-so-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/2012\/10\/what-kept-you-so-long\/","title":{"rendered":"What kept you so long?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/limited-edition-prints\/\">Visit the on-line shop now!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am so enjoying the production side of this run of Limited Edition prints. \u00c2\u00a0I know I keep saying they are stunning but they really are. \u00c2\u00a0The lab pulled out the stops supplying the most amazing paper to print them on. \u00c2\u00a0It is so thick I was worried whether they would roll tight enough to fit in the 3&#8243;tubes. \u00c2\u00a0Thankfully they do and for the last few days it has been really busy in the office packing them out to the various locations. \u00c2\u00a0We have had 2 shipped to the USA, 1 to France, 3 to Scandinavia and the rest in the UK. \u00c2\u00a0The shipping costs to the USA and Europe are much cheaper than I was advised so the good news is shipping to the US is now <del>only \u00c2\u00a310 and Europe \u00c2\u00a38 .<\/del>\u00c2\u00a0**UPDATE ** Sorry but shipping remains at \u00c2\u00a314 for Europe and USA. \u00c2\u00a0If it is ever any cheaper after packaging I will refund the difference. \u00c2\u00a0Postage within the UK will remain free of charge but you can now request the option to have them sent recorded delivery for \u00c2\u00a36.50. \u00c2\u00a0At the moment only Slash and the mad Hatter Ville are available in the shop but there are some further prints being produced that I hope you will want to have hanging on your wall. \u00c2\u00a0As I said before these are not just photographic prints. \u00c2\u00a0I have tried to give them the feel and look of a silk-screen print but with the quality of a photographic reproduction. \u00c2\u00a0To do this takes a lot of time, but is proving to be a lot of fun in the process! \u00c2\u00a0Check back soon!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-666\" title=\"SLASH FIRST PRINT\" src=\"http:\/\/picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SLASH-FIRST-PRINT1-660x515.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SLASH-FIRST-PRINT1-660x515.jpg 660w, http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/SLASH-FIRST-PRINT1-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most of the summer was spent on tour with IRON MAIDEN across North America which was a total blast. \u00c2\u00a0The setlist of songs which will soon be coming to the UK &amp; Europe was a treat to hear every night. \u00c2\u00a0Seventh Son of a Seventh Son reminded me of the first time I saw IRON MAIDEN live and also reminded me why they are still the greatest live band on the planet. If that wasn&#8217;t keeping me busy enough I was also working on Steve Harris&#8217; new solo project &#8216;BRITISH LION&#8217;. \u00c2\u00a0Shot a load of stills in Alberta, Canada and shot a couple of videos for the band in-between the Maiden shows in Calgary and Vancouver.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-667\" title=\"mcmurtrie bl fb\" src=\"http:\/\/picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/mcmurtrie-bl-fb-660x439.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/mcmurtrie-bl-fb-660x439.jpg 660w, http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/mcmurtrie-bl-fb-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/mcmurtrie-bl-fb.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is nearly a year ago that my book &#8216;On Board Flight 666&#8217; published and I thank everyone who went out and brought it. \u00c2\u00a0I am still really pleased with how it turned out and I am in talks with the publishers about a digital version and possibly a soft back version in the USA. \u00c2\u00a0We have also discussed a follow up book but it is early days and thinking back to one year ago and the amount of work that went into OBF666 I am asking whether I am ready to go through that again? Never say never!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-668\" title=\"blog charlotte\" src=\"http:\/\/picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/blog-charlotte.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"426\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/blog-charlotte.jpg 426w, http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/blog-charlotte-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I will post up the next 2 art prints soon!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-670\" title=\"blog boom\" src=\"http:\/\/picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/blog-boom.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/blog-boom.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/blog-boom-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/limited-edition-prints\/\">V<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/limited-edition-prints\/\">isit the on-line shop now!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Visit the on-line shop now! I am so enjoying the production side of this run of Limited Edition prints. \u00c2\u00a0I know I keep saying they are stunning but they really are. \u00c2\u00a0The lab pulled out the stops supplying the most &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/2012\/10\/what-kept-you-so-long\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":688,"href":"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.picturedesk.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}