tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3055705617165411909.post2907659397814779960..comments2024-01-05T02:37:59.932-06:00Comments on XKCD-SUCKS presents: Died In A Blogging Accident: Comics 1 and 7: The Style - a RetrospectiveGamer_2k4http://www.blogger.com/profile/17079715817544544279noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3055705617165411909.post-89809478094096589282014-03-13T06:29:36.316-05:002014-03-13T06:29:36.316-05:00ALTF, ya toothy cunt, welcome home!ALTF, ya toothy cunt, welcome home!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3055705617165411909.post-89838240860636638002014-03-11T11:29:23.807-05:002014-03-11T11:29:23.807-05:00Post sommat new ya lazy Brit-fuck!Post sommat new ya lazy Brit-fuck!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3055705617165411909.post-33056700457786324162014-03-06T04:23:23.839-06:002014-03-06T04:23:23.839-06:00I live to serve. It's just a shame I can't...I live to serve. It's just a shame I can't make all my comment sections like thisJon Levihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02982566251460262711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3055705617165411909.post-59349012960485753982014-03-05T14:17:42.902-06:002014-03-05T14:17:42.902-06:00I can not relate to 1 at all. I know exactly where...I can not relate to 1 at all. I know exactly where I'm going. All the way down until I hit the bottom. My destiny is to die as a bloated 53 year old virgin seated unsteadily against a wall, drunkenly flinging bitter slurs at passing women that arouse my thwarted desires. I end up bleeding out after one of them reacts by stamping her stiletto heel into my eye socket. The judge rules it reasonable self defence against a shockingly sexist assault.<br /><br />Congratulations on producing a comments section approaching the xkcd forum in levels of philistinism, by the way. Maybe next time you can write about how there's no objective difference between expensive wine and vinegar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3055705617165411909.post-5225718005899011162014-03-04T16:48:00.514-06:002014-03-04T16:48:00.514-06:00commenting to make you happy.
I like minimalist ...commenting to make you happy. <br /><br />I like minimalist art, but XKCD isn't enjoyable for the reasons I like that kind of art, because the meaning of XKCD is just as prescriptive as a picture of trees. you can stare at an xkcd forever and you still won't understand unless you know that obscure reference. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3055705617165411909.post-66266877322612063982014-03-03T19:59:04.489-06:002014-03-03T19:59:04.489-06:00The thing about art is that there is no way to obj...The thing about art is that there is no way to objectively measure its quality. So it happens that 'good' art is just art that a lot of people have paid attention to. This is why a silly music video by an unknown artist can get hundreds of millions of views on Youtube, while an equally silly video by another unknown artist only gets hundreds. This is also why Youtubers are so desperate for you to like, share and subscribe. It gives the perception that their videos are good, and that's all that matters. This is also how advertising works.<br /><br />So I'd argue that when you drew attention to that painting, even though it was supposed to be negative attention, you made 'better', simply by exposing it to more people's eyeballs. <br /><br />Art succeeds on a combination of luck, promotion and skill. Yes skill is important, but it's not the only thing that matters.Jon Levihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02982566251460262711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3055705617165411909.post-16169450764794917392014-03-03T19:45:05.755-06:002014-03-03T19:45:05.755-06:00Minimalism has a great purpose. It shows the world...Minimalism has a great purpose. It shows the world that the upper echelons of the visual arts market are a complete joke.Jon Levihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02982566251460262711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3055705617165411909.post-53210025537926328572014-03-03T19:42:21.148-06:002014-03-03T19:42:21.148-06:00Agreed, though in terms of pretension, neither com...Agreed, though in terms of pretension, neither comes close to the art movement that called itself Minimalism, which was a little after Mondrian's time. I looked it up on Wikipedia, and the lead image is an entire canvas painted blue, for fuck's sake.<br /><br />So at least Xkcd doesn't categorise itself as part of a pretentiously titled movement. But bear in mind that a lot of these movements were named by art scholars after the fact. So who knows what history will remember Xkcd as?Jon Levihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02982566251460262711noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3055705617165411909.post-86284412252878036112014-03-03T15:04:22.885-06:002014-03-03T15:04:22.885-06:00Great review!
I personally dislike minimalist (rea...Great review!<br />I personally dislike minimalist (read "lazy") art. When I was in college, there was a painting on the wall of one of the hallways, and it was just a bunch of shapes, smears, and scratches (at least to me). One day I took a photo of it and uploaded it to my Facebook and captioned it with "You call this art? It should be called 'Oops, I left my painting supplies out when I was babysitting'". Then my friends commented and said it was beautiful, and came up with all these "meanings" of what the different shapes represent.<br /><br />I think that the root cause of Xkcd being overrated is that our culture is one that enables laziness in art, be it through finding supposed "meaning" in randomly selected shapes/smears, or finding "beauty" in hastily drawn comics.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08576835362387185876noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3055705617165411909.post-14994460888631032902014-03-03T14:56:37.051-06:002014-03-03T14:56:37.051-06:00Regarding minimalistic art, I think it can work if...Regarding minimalistic art, I think it can work if it doesn't get too repetitive and has strong suits in the writing, like punk rock with simple chord progressions and short songs but good lyrics. <br />Regarding "I'd hit it.", I think that puts #631 in a new perspective. Maybe it was done in a fit of rage one night, "Are you not entertained?"-style.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3055705617165411909.post-68790431080703092282014-03-03T09:46:24.175-06:002014-03-03T09:46:24.175-06:00According to my wife (who just finished her fine a...According to my wife (who just finished her fine arts degree) a great deal of contemporary art is shit. Literally. Sculptures and writings and paintings of excrement. <br /><br />I do like performance art, like Rhythm 0 by Marina Abramovic. <br /><br />5/5 for the reviewcptnoremachttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04265383595176504467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3055705617165411909.post-384916441194006322014-03-03T02:41:25.760-06:002014-03-03T02:41:25.760-06:00I don't write all the comments, so unless you ...I don't write all the comments, so unless you write the others, Jon, there's more than one of us here.<br />Comic 1336<br /><br />I'm no artist. Minimalism strikes me as the sort of pretentious stuff "modern artists" do. Randall is pretentious, but he's a different kind of pretentious. Not sure if its better or worse though. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com