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I’ve waited 2 years for this post to hit my dash again. Totes worth it
It get better this guy, he wanted to work for the police but they didnt want him because he was to “unfit” now he spends his freetime trolling and running from the police. he is by now a pretty famous comedian and just to show you
thats him dressed up as sonic and blocking real trafic photograph machines and stuff
thats him spraying a guy who smokes in a zone where its forbiden with a fire extungisher
this is probably my favourite comic of all time jsyk
can someone explain this to me?
Sure thing! For convenience I’ll refer to the guy with his arms in his pockets as SG (shorter guy) and the one on the computer as TG (taller guy).
In the first panel, SG sees TG playing on the computer and is disappointed. SG puts a lot of value in the idea of “making things,” specifically “art,” and thinks TG is just wasting their time
So he asks them if they wouldn’t rather be “making something” instead of just playing games and listening to music, implying that TG isn’t doing anything worthwhile or creative with their time
But TG replies that “interpreting is generative,” meaning that even if they spend their time just doing fun stuff, the mere act of enjoying something is creating an experience and an interpretation. Talking about something, dancing to music or sharing a piece of art with your friends IS “making something,” and each of those can be worthwhile and artistic.
SG leaves, complaining he “can’t be an auteur of [interpretation].” Auteur is a movie term that refers to a filmmaker with artistic control and vision enough to be considered essentially the singular creator of the resulting work of art. Turns out, SG doesn’t just want to “make things,” he wants to make things he and others see as “important.” He wants to make art not for the sake of art, but for the sake of being recognized and praised for his art.
This comic really speaks to elitism within the artistic community, the idea that art needs to meet certain standards to be considered art. SG’s viewpoint is really traditionalist, that art need to be “approved” and validated in order to be considered “really art;” while TG recognizes that art can be as little as just talking about what you love.
TLDR: Art is for everyone, not just some sort of social “artistic elite.”
ooh i love the explanation
Rebloging for that in depth and not even a little snarky explanation. 10/10
lifehack: when you see a Take One candy bowl in a restaurant, wait until noones looking and shovel candy into your pockets. god may judge you but his sins outnumber your own
“God may judge you but his sins outnumber your own.” We really need to start collecting and sourcing these Potent Quotables.
I have always been suspicious that there is a story hiding in the names of London stations. Or at least, when passing through Turnham Green or Hatton Cross I am very suspicious; at Heathrow Terminal 5 I am less so. At one point I got suspicious enough that I got the complete list of London stations off Wikipedia[1] and started playing around with them. Eventually, the list combined with a regrettable fondness for doggerel to result in this: Seven Kings for Seven Sisters.
This is part one of (surprise, surprise) seven. Part two is here, part three here, part four here, part five here, part six here and part seven here.
[1] There are quite a lot of them. They are all included somewhere. Insert usual caveat about errors and omissions here.
On the road with no wifi, so here is a thing from the old blog for today’s post.
I recorded this quite certain we wouldn’t win the Hugo Award for the Good Omens tv series. I was wrong. Last night, we won the Hugo. This one is for Terry.
Hi! My name is sword, and i’m a black nb lesbian and today’s my birthday! My following has slowed down a bit because I’ve focused on OC art, and I would love it if you could promo me!
My art has gotten fairly popular uncredited, and you may have seen these emojis around a lot of popular posts:
I’m the creator of these emojis! So please, if you’ve used these emojis in your servers/camera rolls/posts, and you’d like to support me and my art, please consider following me and/or dropping a tip at paypal.me/mothknights
Parent cannot put chips back together again after they have been bitten in half. Letter t looks like a letter f but is not the same. Tipped juice up and juice came out. Too tired to go to bed. Cat not squeezable. There is green food on the plate. T-shirt has a label in it. Asked for item and got it. Dinosaurs too stompy. Dinosaurs too roary. Cannot play with knives. Parent singing. Parent not singing. Offered rice cake to dog, dog ate it. Climbed too high. Buried toy in sand and cannot find it. Asked to tidy up self-made mess. Parent did not memorise exact sequence of games played yesterday and so cannot replicate it. Wet feet from jumping in puddle. Hair needs brushing. Cannot eat bee. Banana peel does not do back up. Thought they were chocolate chips, actually they were raisins. Other child does not know rules of just made-up game. Bedtime.
