Thanks for your comment. My least favourite part is how everything compresses and melts in the center of the painting where the perspective point is. My favourite part is the vibrancy of that large green plant and the sense of atmosphere it gives, as well as the sense of space the glass ceiling creates.

My theory became that the writer is a desperate housewife.

There was one point near the beginning of the book where I just had to put it down from laughter because she said her orgasm was like "the spins cycles of the laundry machine". That is not sexy nor does it make sense.

I'm ESL and I definitely write better.

Yeah, but it's the middle of winter and it was -14C outside. Once the sun went over the building horizon, it started getting pretty cold.

Smell? I don't think the flowers were actively giving scent. Didn't smell like gasoline or sewage though, so that's nice.

Yes I am! Thanks.

I've always had this problem sitting through art history courses talking about contemporary art: if you want to see it as the new art that it is, stop defining it by old art and old practices. He's say our outdated understanding of art is what prevents us from seeing digital art as art, then continues to do so himself by writing about it in those terms!

This statement... jesus, so much bias! "So far, though, the contents of mainstream ‘culture’ – the art, design, music and film that are the usual stock in trade of the Barbican Centre in London, the Lincoln Center in New York, or the Sydney Opera House – are remarkably unaffected by the digital revolution taking place in our daily lives."

First off, mainstream culture still counts as culture and stop being pretentious by putting in quotes like it doesn't because it's not necessarily what is called "high culture". Second - are you kidding, Tom? Have you been in a coma for the past 2 or 3 decades and not witnessed the significant change in music, art, film? We have electronic music when not so long we didn't even have the capacity to record multi-tracks, and films have gone from using film to relying heavily on CG. 3D is a completely new field and it is regarded as art, and so is digital painting and photo manipulation. He still seems to be suck at the point of history where photography was questioned as an art form, and A LOT has changed since then. Maybe his definition of digital art is too closed.

Digital art is "data" and "algorithms" - yeah no shit... CG is algorithms, electronic music is algorithms, even digital painting is what it is because the program's algorithms give it a distinct look. To say that digital art is there to be artistically innovative... well... that's always been one of the roles of any art form. To be culturally relevant and represent the time period it's made in? Yeah that's not new or exclusive to digital art. Textbook.

The traditional qualifiers for art are galleries, art shows, and experts placing value on a work...With how quickly everything is changing, I think the world is moving beyond this and this is what art is having difficulty with. A system that worked doesn't work anymore. Digital art is definitely appreciated and regarded as art, but not under the textbook terms.

What`s the burner community?

I'm entirely freelance and haven't worked for any company yet.

Quick google of Montreal led me to this gem: candied bacon jerky, beef jerky.

Hate to inject myself, but Society6 is having free shipping for Cyber Monday and I sell art products and prints through them. Not to mention, tonnes of other artists! Here's friend 1 & friend 2 as well.

Homemade Montreal Pies

I'm gonna keep updating as I find things.

Some of these made me miss Redwall.

I'm an artist and I wouldn't mind contributing a piece of concept art if this actually gets off the ground. The thing is, I haven't done unpaid work since ever and it's very hard for me to say "yeah sure :)" because 1) I've had my work stolen before 2) I've worked on tonnes of projects that have been a complete waste of time (ie. never finished, ended up the selfish person's closet instead of actually enjoyed by people) 3) I'm not in a good place financially. So I don't know where I sit even though my initial reaction was excited. Here's my current CA portfolio...

What I get out of this is that, even though there are different styles of thinking, ultimately it comes down to seeking out patterns and coming to rules we follow consciously or unconsciously.

When I think of this, I think of all the people who live in distant, disconnected countries. The globalization and civilization of most of our planet has greatly altered our interpretation of life. I mean, as an example, I think people depend far less on spirituality. It is less something we turn to in order to explain life. The things we base our decisions are far different from what they even were a couple hundred years ago now.

I would carve a pumpkin if I could make something with the contents. I don't feel good buying a pumpkin just for decoration with my finances/small apartment. I want to make pumpkin soup, bread, pie - but I don't own any blenders to make a purée. :(

The first link - I love that one. It's really mesmerizing, every time I go by it - where is the second one at?

Wow, those are nice woodblock prints. Yes, framing is crazy expensive - but it's worth it. A properly framed artwork lasts much longer because the changes in humidity and interior air pollution isn't affecting the artwork. I have a lot of unframed older artwork, and it makes me sad to see it aging because I couldn't afford to/didn't know how to protect it. It also makes me sad it's laying inside of a portfolio case, stuck in my closet... Now, I at least put all my artwork into a plastic sleeve or wrap it, and then store it in a portfolio in a dark, dry space.

I wish I could meet more people with your level of appreciation for art.

That's kind of the point. I've tried selling art in a public space before and you have people approach it, and give their idea of what the price should be. They don't know anything about it or how it was made (most of the time..), but they have a sense a what they want to pay anyway.

I also see this strange thing happen where if the same originals and prints are shown together, people will treat them as one. They're more likely to buy a print, because the original looks so expensive in comparison and they forget that it's the original.

The answer you gave it pretty good though.

I suppose. But, I'm also interested in people who have never bought art before and what they think they could pay for it.

Used to be r/cringe and r/cringepics, but both have lost their level of quality they had when they first came to existence... I practice some serious shadenfreude.

I make sure my chocolate stash is always stacked and go through chocolate quickly.

I listen to old pop & rap, from when I was a kid. Nothing wrong with Gangsta's Paradise.

It's one of those things you just have to experience to know what it's like, but I guess what I'm saying is that you might not even be aware of what's happening at that point. You'd make the transition without knowing, just like you don't remember being born. Even if there's an afterlife, or past life, or heaven, would you be aware of where you came from? I don't think so. I feel like you'd lose that footprint of being a human. It just makes me lose concern for it.

I had a near death experience when I was a kid while drowning. I know I wasn't just passing-out because it felt very different. Obviously, it was due to suffocating because I filled myself with water while trying to get air. My limbs went numb and stopped moving, I stopped feeling alarmed and I remember thinking "I could really use a nap. It's so warm and comfortable here," which at that point I think I forget where I was. I heard once there's a hormone your body makes when you're dying to officially start shutting things down - well, it definitely felt like that and that was what stood out from the experience. Very different feeling. Everything felt extremely comfortable, I stopped hearing, thinking, ect. and my vision was just white - I suppose maybe that is the "light at the end of the tunnel" effect?

I kind of choose to not worry about where we end up - because we just don't know. I got that close, and I didn't find out. That experience really disturbed me, especially as someone with depression. Imagine having suicidal thoughts paired with that memory - it just makes it that much harder. "Where do we go in the afterlife?" is kind of paired with "Why are we here in the first place?"

I can't subscribe to any kind of thinking that implies we, as an animal on this planet, know how everything works. That is how I feel about religion and that it is exactly egocentric - like, we as a species are superior to anything on our planet and in our universe. Just thinking about how.. for example, we don't even see all the wavelengths of the colour spectrum, don't hear past a certain +/- amount of dBs, don't fly, can't breathe underwater, and a lot of other things I can list for an hour that some other animals are capable of - how can we be so certain in our understanding of life and everything if there are hard limits to what we experience?

Well, I'm probably exaggerating, since you can go to a cheapy store and get crap yarn and cheap needles and probably do this for $20. But if you were to do this properly with nice yarn: $30 yarn, anywhere from $3-20 for the needles, $5 for the pattern + lots of time because it's a fine stitch. Considering most Halloween costumes are between $20-60 (here anyway), it would add up if it was part of one. It'd be fun to wear this and be a mad scientist type of thing though :)

I don't have links at my immediate disposal, but it can get worse. ;) I thought this was funny/cool. If one had a lot of time and money, they could make this for Halloween.

So far I'm digging cov electro-swing. Totally didn't know I like this kind of music.

I wonder if Louie ever tried an appearance change. He's always dissing his own body in jokes, while he could definitely pull of the dark hair/beard & top hat.