{"id":694199,"date":"2026-05-26T05:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T05:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/694199\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T05:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T05:35:10","slug":"artist-recreates-prince-performing-purple-rain-using-stencils-on-250-rainy-car-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/694199\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist Recreates Prince Performing &#8216;Purple Rain&#8217; Using Stencils on 250 Rainy Car Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/?s=Seattle\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">Seattle<\/a> street artist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/rudy_willingham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Rudy Willingham<\/a>, who<a href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/?s=Rudy+Willingham\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\"> contextualizes images around town<\/a>, placed 250 stencils on 250 rainy car windows and used the photographs to recreate the late great <a href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/?s=Prince+music\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">Prince<\/a> performing <a href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/?s=Prince+Purple+Rain\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"external noopener nofollow\">\u201cPurple Rain\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are all real photos made by placing stencils on 250 rainy car windows.<\/p>\n<p>The Original \u2018Purple Rain\u2019 Music Video<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chipbeale\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener external nofollow\" data-wpel-link=\"external\">Chip Beale<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated Posts\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/laughingsquid.com\/author\/hrlori\/\" class=\"ct-media-container\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/923bd9d239ba63c142031fb02e35b5bfdda3056e2d19e164873135adfdb7aa08.jpeg\" width=\"60\" height=\"60\" alt=\"Lori Dorn\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 1\/1;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tLori Dorn\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seattle street artist\u00a0Rudy Willingham, who contextualizes images around town, placed 250 stencils on 250 rainy car windows and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":694200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[76,354,355,49,48,356,75],"class_list":["post-694199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/694200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}