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Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahg post.
Dec. 11th, 2008 07:02 pmNote: Since there are actually people who watch me here and I never post anything, and since my main blog now contains personal stuff, I'm going to start cross-posting. This is the first such entry.
No news on the apartment front. No news is good news, though.
In case anybody's curious, the number of spam comments reported on my twitter is not an exaggeration. It's actually over eleven thousand... there were that many in TOMU's moderation queue alone... but it's the internet. "When in Rome," after all.
While trying to get online purchases for Microsoft Office and Norton and a few other things that came as a free trial with the computer and are expiring to go through -- hey, the money's there and if I do it now I can still deduct it on my 2008 taxes -- I ended up spending way too much time and energy arguing with a person on Livejournal who have, ah, interesting views about a few things. :P Okay, he's completely batshit, as they say dans la belle internet, but you folks know me. I'll keep arguing long past the point of any utility to it.
Batshit though he may be, he wants to be a cartoonist, and his current project is quirky and interesting enough to find favor with me. The art is rough... he has a nice mix of realism and goofy surrealism, but he tries way too hard to put way too much detail into way too small a face, with often jarring results... but I like the set-up so far, and a combination of the strip's name and the most recent strip is making me think that I'll like where it's going.
I've left him some constructive criticism on the strips, which he has chosen to label as "bizarre and uninformed," though he's threatened to give a fuller response later. Whatever. I'm a firm believer in the idea that even criticism is open to criticism. Besides, I'm pretty sure that's what it says on my business card, anyway: "Bizarre And Uninformed".
He seems to have a lot of other artist friends reading, but not a lot of other people, which may be hurting his ability to get useful feedback. It's like I've said about writer's workshops and circles: you mainly learn to impress other writers. I'm not saying he needs to listen to me. As I say about my own work to people who don't like it: there are six billion people in the world. Somebody will enjoy it. But he's mentioned a bit of envy towards webcomics that have larger audiences, and if he wants to get one he needs to pay attention to the needs of the "uninformed" folks who make up such audiences.
Anyway, in light of the contentious nature of the non-artistic conversation, he's asked for a moratorium on my comments. :P When he decides he's done with that, I'll ask him if he wants links.
No news on the apartment front. No news is good news, though.
In case anybody's curious, the number of spam comments reported on my twitter is not an exaggeration. It's actually over eleven thousand... there were that many in TOMU's moderation queue alone... but it's the internet. "When in Rome," after all.
While trying to get online purchases for Microsoft Office and Norton and a few other things that came as a free trial with the computer and are expiring to go through -- hey, the money's there and if I do it now I can still deduct it on my 2008 taxes -- I ended up spending way too much time and energy arguing with a person on Livejournal who have, ah, interesting views about a few things. :P Okay, he's completely batshit, as they say dans la belle internet, but you folks know me. I'll keep arguing long past the point of any utility to it.
Batshit though he may be, he wants to be a cartoonist, and his current project is quirky and interesting enough to find favor with me. The art is rough... he has a nice mix of realism and goofy surrealism, but he tries way too hard to put way too much detail into way too small a face, with often jarring results... but I like the set-up so far, and a combination of the strip's name and the most recent strip is making me think that I'll like where it's going.
I've left him some constructive criticism on the strips, which he has chosen to label as "bizarre and uninformed," though he's threatened to give a fuller response later. Whatever. I'm a firm believer in the idea that even criticism is open to criticism. Besides, I'm pretty sure that's what it says on my business card, anyway: "Bizarre And Uninformed".
He seems to have a lot of other artist friends reading, but not a lot of other people, which may be hurting his ability to get useful feedback. It's like I've said about writer's workshops and circles: you mainly learn to impress other writers. I'm not saying he needs to listen to me. As I say about my own work to people who don't like it: there are six billion people in the world. Somebody will enjoy it. But he's mentioned a bit of envy towards webcomics that have larger audiences, and if he wants to get one he needs to pay attention to the needs of the "uninformed" folks who make up such audiences.
Anyway, in light of the contentious nature of the non-artistic conversation, he's asked for a moratorium on my comments. :P When he decides he's done with that, I'll ask him if he wants links.
