• mdalin@infosec.pub
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    18 hours ago

    Maybe I’m just drunk and missing something, but… Why is this in Funny?

    Is it just that whoever wrote the text at the top is a little bit cringe? Is it that the art itself is, I dunno, derivative? Is it something to do with the actual stop sign? I’m lost…

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      10 hours ago

      You’d be surprised how boring some human minds are. I recently heard someone say “I don’t care for art unless it means something”. As if totally ignorant to the fact that it’s nearly impossible to create a thing without it meaning something to the artist. I think this dude meant “if it doesn’t mean something to me personally, and probably due to a religious overtone, it’s worthless”. Pretty sad and boring self-centered experience if you ask me.

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      21 hours ago

      I suspect that they mean specifically paintings, rather than all art.

      Still quite a bit weird, but not as bizarre as your interpretation would suggest 🤷🏻

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      19 hours ago

      I’m not a visual art fan. When I read manga I pay way more attention to the text than the art. Visual art is innocuous to me, it’s just there. Like, if you knew someone in college who had a bunch of movie posters in their room, after you’ve been in their room a few times you don’t even notice any more? It’s like that from the start with all static visual art (paintings/statues/pictures etc) for me.

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    23 hours ago

    Wow, that’s a new idea! Wish I’d thought of it!

    (Yes, that’s sarcasm, and juvenile crap like this is why I think most art is garbage).

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      10 hours ago

      most art is garbage

      It would not be possible to scream louder “I have shitty tastes and am not relatable at all!!”

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      A well-made axe is art. A beautifully designed house is art. A surgeon replacing your wife’s liver is art. An wide reciever stretching past the line, his fingertips trapping the ball while dragging a foot inbounds for a win in overtime - still art.

      It’s all art, my friend. We take a skill and get better. We get so good that people stop and look. I used to be a painter. The blue collar, white ceilings with a roller kind of painter. I was not an artist. My boss, he could cut a freehand line so straight and level you’d think he’d used tape on the wall. Nope, just good at his job. An artist.

      But spray paint on a rock wall?! That’s fucking DIFFICULT. Extreme challenge. My boss couldn’t paint that on his very best day. There would be overrun, splatter. The wispy little hair on Yoda’s head would look like Charlie Brown or Homer Simpson.

      Ok, I think they’re all gone now. Just between you and I, this is absolute garbage, 100% agree with you - but probably for different reasons.

      Yoda is a soldier. He’s not just a grunt, either. He symbolizes conflict and war. He is the hero of a movie franchise called Star Wars. It’s literally a blockbuster movie about war. Glorifying war. So I feel that the artist made a horrible artistic choice in using Star Wars as a play on Stop Wars.

      The concepts bump, making it an uncomfortable moment. Like a child who proudly presents you a picture of a violent scene drawn messily in crayon. You want to match their energy, but you’re lk wondering if the little idiot is just messing with you.

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        Yoda is a soldier. He’s not just a grunt, either. He symbolizes conflict and war. He is the hero of a movie franchise called Star Wars. It’s literally a blockbuster movie about war. Glorifying war. So I feel that the artist made a horrible artistic choice in using Star Wars as a play on Stop Wars.

        Like all the anti-war movies whose main characters are soldiers? That’s a shallow point of view if I’ve ever read one.

        Yoda saw the fall of the democratic nation he wanted to protect, the rise of a fascist empire, and lost everybody he ever knew and cherished along the way, only to end up as a bitter hermit in a swamp. Soldiers are victims too, even if they don’t die in a war.

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        20 hours ago

        This one is worse. Are we shaming people for giving honest feedback? is that how we foster discussion? Is it not enough that he got negative feedback? Must you grind your heel in his face because his taste in art is not the same as yours?

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          Lmao the idea you want us to accept is "if we cannot seriously engage with rage baiting trolls who express the opinion that ‘all art is shitty’ then we have lost our very souls!! Oh, the humanity!!’