{"id":50621,"date":"2013-11-15T00:04:29","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T20:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=50621"},"modified":"2013-11-15T16:18:08","modified_gmt":"2013-11-15T12:18:08","slug":"prick-your-own-fruit-artist-uses-needle-to-create-brilliant-portraits-on-banana-skins-and-its-so-easy-anyone-can-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=50621","title":{"rendered":"Prick your own fruit! Artist uses needle to create brilliant portraits on banana skins\u2026 and it&#8217;s so easy anyone can do it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Virgin-Group-Richard-Branson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-50619\" alt=\"Virgin Group, Richard Branson\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Virgin-Group-Richard-Branson.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Virgin-Group-Richard-Branson.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Virgin-Group-Richard-Branson-271x300.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>40-year-old Japanese artist Daisuke Skagami from Toyko, who goes by the name of EndCape, creates astonishing pictures on bananas by artfully bruising them with a single pin pushed into the peel.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a past-time known as banana tattooing, but technique-wise is similar to pointillism. This is where pictures are created using tiny dots of pure colour.<\/p>\n<p>Cape\u2019s creations take around five hours to make \u2013 sometimes longer &#8211; and include Mount Rushmore National Memorial, the Mona Lisa and Virgin boss Richard Branson.<br \/>\nHe\u2019s also created jigsaw patterns, a banana \u2018zip\u2019, and a the face of Japanese actor Sei Hiraizumi.<br \/>\nEach banana lasts up to two days, at which point the artist eats his creations, but EndCape is now looking for ways to preserve his work.<\/p>\n<p>His designs have been featured on Japanese TV and in art galleries in Toyko.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; 40-year-old Japanese artist Daisuke Skagami from Toyko, who goes by the name of EndCape,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":50619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,155,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-other-countries","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}