{"id":2708,"date":"2006-08-13T10:19:30","date_gmt":"2006-08-13T14:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/13\/paul-carter-1970-2006\/"},"modified":"2007-03-10T17:22:21","modified_gmt":"2007-03-10T22:22:21","slug":"paul-carter-1970-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/13\/paul-carter-1970-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Carter, 1970-2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Carter died in a car crash yesterday near Edinburgh. We were inseparable as kids.<\/p>\n<p>He was an inspired artist, even when I knew him. I&#8217;ll never forget him asking of his ZX Spectrum: <em>How do I get more colours from this?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/scruss.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/stewart_russell-paul_carter.jpg\" alt=\"Stewart and Paul, 1983\" id=\"image2709\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>This is me and Paul (<\/em>right<em>) in the summer of 1983. Paul was wearing his Beatles t-shirt, as usual; I think he&#8217;d just painted his bedroom wall with scenes from <\/em>Yellow Submarine<em>. We were just about to set out on a sponsored cycle. We belted round the track at Crookfur Park until everyone else had gone home, leaving one poor hapless lap-counting volunteer waiting in the dusk.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some of Paul&#8217;s artwork on the web:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottisharts.org.uk\/1\/artsinscotland\/visualarts\/features\/archive\/artistpaulcarter.aspx\">Scottish Arts Council Archive: Paul Carter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.re-title.com\/artists\/Paul-Carter.asp\">re-title.com: Paul Carter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.axisweb.org\/ofSARF.aspx?SELECTIONID=15\">Axis Open Frequency: Paul Carter<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/paulcarter.ourbrilliantwedding.com\/\">http:\/\/paulcarter.ourbrilliantwedding.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.embassygallery.co.uk\/www.embassygallery.co.uk\/paul%20carter\/paul_carter_page.htm\">12XU Solo Show and Suburban Guerilla book launch, Embassy Gallery<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Update, 21 Aug<\/strong>: Paul&#8217;s funeral is this Friday in Joppa at St Philip&#8217;s Church,  Joppa Road at 10.30 am. There is a wake in the church hall after until 1pm. Thanks to Chris Hill and John Beagles for finding this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Carter died in a car crash yesterday near Edinburgh. We were inseparable as kids. He was an inspired artist, even when I knew him. I&#8217;ll never forget him asking of his ZX Spectrum: How do I get more colours from this? This is me and Paul (right) in the summer of 1983. Paul was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[94,96,95,92,93],"class_list":["post-2708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-artist","tag-friend","tag-memorial","tag-paul_carter","tag-zx_spectrum"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-HG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}