and maybe i'm just jealous cuz i have had to work full-time since i was 19? i could never afford to "do art" all day. and i'm a well-respected fictional character! i would love an art holiday. i do what i can with the time that i have. but that is my problem and not soul-giving artist's problem.
― scott seward, Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:19 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that thousandth failure might actually be a clue...time to rethink the art thing.
hahaaa
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
You are buying hundreds of hours of experimentation and thousands of failures.
I do not want to buy the experimentation or failures. I just want to buy this particular piece of art.
You are buying days, weeks, months, years of frustration and moments of pure joy.
I'm certainly not getting days, weeks, and months from this purchase, and if I were able to buy additional time I wouldn't want to buy time that includes frustration. Just the high octane serenity time.
You are buying nights of worry about paying the rent, having enough money to eat, having enough money to feecd the children, the birds, the dog.
Do not want.
You aren't just buying a thing, you are buying a piece of heart,
Gross.
― Mordy, Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:20 (eleven years ago) link
"you are buying that artist more time to do something they are truly passionate about" -- i.e., drink beer and smoke cigarettes!
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:21 (eleven years ago) link
http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/4/43647/1069518-fishing_heartpiece_large_super.jpg
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
you are buying... private moment in someones life, wondering is this even legal
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:23 (eleven years ago) link
so, let me ask: Non-indie musicians don't do any of this kind of work-prep?
― Mark G, Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:23 (eleven years ago) link
it's funny that you read that and then you buy like this weird blob-painting kinda thing or quirky sculpture. gimme the 9th symphony if it comes with all that sturm and drang.
― ryan, Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
Or is it "Independant Musicians need you to buy it even if it's not that good actually"
― Mark G, Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
oh man i wish someone would post this in my timeline, except itd prob be my aunt whos always putting up similar things re the sanctity of book and it wouldnt really be worth clowning her
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:25 (eleven years ago) link
KEEP FACEBOOK WEIRD
buy my meme
― Mordy, Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:26 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it's incredibly obnoxious and entitled but even I feel slightly guilty for saying that b/c it makes me some kind of soulless free marketeer
my friend is always posting shit like that about his excessively skilled but not all that listenable jazz-funk-experimental trio, and sometimes I just want to be like "Look, do you really think you'd be making a great living doing this in the days BEFORE mp3s?"
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:27 (eleven years ago) link
as much as i'd love it if someone paid me my current salary to sit at home for a year and write fiction, i understand that the way the world works is that first you create the art on your own time and at your own expense, and then if you're lucky and people like it, maybe you'll get funded for the next project. if people don't like the current project, you don't get paid.
― Mordy, Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:30 (eleven years ago) link
i would never say this stuff on my facebook. too many innocent souls. i knew there was a reason i was still on ilx.
― scott seward, Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
"independent" and "local" are the last refuges of hacks, basically
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:31 (eleven years ago) link
also when i read this i picture people selling their novels on the street. or laying a blanket down at the arts fair and putting their novels on it.
having said that, i would probably totally buy a novel off of someone on the street.
― scott seward, Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
yah was gonna say
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
a friend of mine in nyc is friends with a guy who sells his novels on the street. he used to be in advertising. or still is.
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:33 (eleven years ago) link
stop messing around and put it on the blanket already
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:34 (eleven years ago) link
the thing i might dislike most about this poster is the bolding
― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
cool whiney jpg man... put yr wares on the blanket
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
oh he has a table
But aren't self-published ebooks the new novels on a blanket in the street?
― Queue de Cheval (White Chocolate Cheesecake), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:35 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/RebekahTheArtist
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
it doesnt have to be a literal blanket or an actual novel but anyones whos posting these silly jpgs should stop fucking around and put their novel on the blanket
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
im starting an etsy competitor called the blanket, the hook is theres an actual blanket near a farmers market w/all the stuff on it
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:41 (eleven years ago) link
near a farmers market
A+
― cwkiii, Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:43 (eleven years ago) link
When you buy from MegaCorp, you're purchasing more than just life insurance. You're buying hundreds of hours of endless board meetings and administrative errors. You are buying days of multiple signature sign-offs, mind numbingly tedious health and safety audits. You are buying days, weeks, months of redundancy fears, family problems and very little joy. You aren't just buying a thing, you are buying a piece of people's livelihoods. More importantly, you are buying our workers more time to do something that they may not be passionate about, but are thankful for; something that makes all the fear and the doubt just about worth getting out of bed for every single mindnumbing day.
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
legit lol at Rebekah selling prints of that jpg
― if you are a false nine don't entry (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
basically if you post any kind of jpeg with words on it on facebook i hate u
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:46 (eleven years ago) link
#1 on my FB feed this week:
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m695jg98c01r1z1beo1_500.jpg
― Odd Spice (Eazy), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
can we just turn this into a thread of those dumb things
― funny-skrillex-bee_132455836669.gif (s1ocki), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
If I didn't have other stuff to do and ILX to distract me, I would make a Tumblr page with a million fake Kurt Vonnegut quotes, like "Know what? Bitches get stuff done. - Kurt Vonnegut."
http://theinterrobang.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/tumblr_lw7hsmVh9U1r2qaswo1_500.jpg
― Odd Spice (Eazy), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
Even the "good" ones, the ones on the side of the angels, are still kind of STOP WITH THE JPGS ALREADY, EVERYONE'S WACKY AUNT. Like the one about how the poor in America view themselves as temporarily inconvenienced millionaires.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
my personal least favorite is the Ira Glass "you're creative and have good taste sorry you can't do exactly what you want with your life" quote
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
The ones that are thinly-disguised guerilla marketing campaigns for far-right parties are the ones that go from objectionable to downright FUCK YOU. Especially when you get 28 people liking and going "LOL, so true" etc...
― Scary Move 4 (dog latin), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
was the first one "ask not what your country " etc?
― Mark G, Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
my first thought was, whoever wrote that must be making some terrible art
then I googled rebekah joy plett and found out she should've wrote "you are buying hundreds of hours spent copying the work of mark ryden"
― diamanda ram dass (Edward III), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
"real men head boop with kittens" number one on my facebook today.
― scott seward, Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:57 (eleven years ago) link
LOL some people are so fucking deluded about the amount of narcissism and inflated sense of self worth that drives people to be "artists"
― calum-y maybe (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 12 July 2012 14:58 (eleven years ago) link
I don't have that many Facebook friends to begin with and 2/3 of them are hidden but occasionally one of those wacky e-postcards with the "vintage" clip art slip through the cracks and I get a little IA.
Hate when I add someone and I find out almost immediately that they are WACKY AUNT and I lose a little respect for them. :)
― cwkiii, Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
― calum-y maybe (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, July 12, 2012 10:58 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It's a strange business. They're all like that, it's just that a tiny minority of them are actually good enough to justify it. The whole system depends on this kind of narcissism. You can't really devote your life to making art if you don't have it.
― Will Chave (Hurting 2), Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
I know! You need to study and earn that narcissm, they don't understAND!!
― Mark G, Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
this is the one that drives me bananashttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/-scBgMUAS7fw/TzIsXjx6KQI/AAAAAAAAAbQ/FwPLL8i2-Y0/s1600/ira-glass-quote.jpg
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:01 (eleven years ago) link
ambitions! work! creativity! YOUR TASTE IS KILLER!
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
iow:
"Settle"
― Mark G, Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
i actually like that ira glass bit. maybe bc i'm one of those ppl who is always disappointed in their own creative work.
― Mordy, Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/2HWxB.jpg
via my aforementioned aunt, didnt realize until just now how ubiquitous this shit had become
― lag∞n, Thursday, 12 July 2012 15:02 (eleven years ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/yXvwgLH/Screenshot-20230711-212837.jpg
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 12 July 2023 01:34 (eleven months ago) link
When motivational slogans are created by lazy people
― calstars, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 02:32 (eleven months ago) link
that reminds me of this poster i’ve seen in a few corner shops.. i think it’s for a brand of vape.
WILDIS NEVERTAME
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 12 July 2023 08:22 (eleven months ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/p0f2ZGL/FB-IMG-1690152278033.jpg
― linoleum gallagher (Neanderthal), Sunday, 23 July 2023 22:45 (ten months ago) link
Yes, Neanderthal, exactly. Do you know the source? (Would love to spread that message but with credit attached.)
― Some people call me Maurice Chevalier (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 24 July 2023 02:36 (ten months ago) link
Neanderthal plagiarized it.
― Gerard Grisey Funk (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 24 July 2023 02:37 (ten months ago) link
Ha, that is the joek
― Some people call me Maurice Chevalier (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 24 July 2023 02:42 (ten months ago) link
Oops
― Gerard Grisey Funk (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 24 July 2023 02:55 (ten months ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/VQ5KXFJ/FB-IMG-1695924581600.jpg
― I love you, dad (Neanderthal), Thursday, 28 September 2023 18:10 (eight months ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2c/Extreme-III_Sides_to_Every_Story.jpg/220px-Extreme-III_Sides_to_Every_Story.jpg
3 sides fingers to every story
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 28 September 2023 18:52 (eight months ago) link
why do i hate that thing so much where people post stuff like: "Mozart would have been 412 today...."
i mean saying happy birthday to a long-dead person who isn't related to you always seemed kinda lame anyway - who cares? - but telling people how old that person would have been if...they...were alive?
i don't get it.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 15:37 (eight months ago) link
a huge part of the problem with all memes, posts, shares and internet humor now is that they're all bogged down with baroquely cutesy wording to try and freshen up a banal observation, minor factoid, or low-wattage punchline. typically by just plugging it into whatever was last summer's trending sassy verbal construction. everything is just encrusted with verbiage.
― not the one who's tryin' to dub your anime (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 15:59 (eight months ago) link
I still hear these memes in Mary Hart's voice.
"Celebrating a birthday today, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart at 412 years young!"
― pplains, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 16:40 (eight months ago) link
"Making a birthday 'twist' before blowing out the candles, Chubby Checkers turns 47!"
https://i.imgur.com/E8OWo9x.jpg
― pplains, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 16:41 (eight months ago) link
Dogs laying on their sides during this segment, howling at the baseboard.
― pplains, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 16:42 (eight months ago) link
none of the "I found x in Halloween candy" memes are funny, stop it
― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve), Friday, 13 October 2023 22:03 (eight months ago) link
what if they found love in their halloween candy tho
― oatly carmichael (m bison), Friday, 13 October 2023 23:28 (eight months ago) link
So, you're into Primus and Tool now coz Billy has played with them and Alice In Chains because he covers their song.That's nice.😉Yeah, I'm old. But I've seen all your favorite bands live and in their prime.😃
https://scontent-bos5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/391602524_10161283552216093_97669433835605696_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_s640x640&_nc_cat=105&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=6BlnMOlDBFUAX-mZraI&_nc_ht=scontent-bos5-1.xx&oh=00_AfCzTvOojdNjZ8WQUBS-TN3D1mQVfAUZXEwDkONMV6wjZg&oe=6534B669
― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 October 2023 04:33 (eight months ago) link
Youtube is constantly trying to get me to watch Primus videos and I'm mildly offended by it, I shower at least once a day.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 18 October 2023 05:14 (eight months ago) link
I'm really sick of seeing fake Spirit Halloween costumes representing various stereotypes. It stopped being amusing several years ago.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 25 October 2023 04:09 (seven months ago) link
Saw a meme related to a book called Your Brain On Art, these are the top blurbs
https://i.imgur.com/R7mwGR3.png
― papal hotwife (milo z), Thursday, 26 October 2023 01:09 (seven months ago) link
"everything that annoys you is teaching you patience""everything that angers you is teaching you compassion"..."every artist thing you hate so much on facebook is teaching you to get off facebook"
― ꙮ (map), Thursday, 26 October 2023 03:02 (seven months ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/SxRNtZD/FB-IMG-1700754948493.jpg
― a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 November 2023 15:57 (six months ago) link
corner the market on being human
― rob, Thursday, 23 November 2023 15:59 (six months ago) link
Spend all your time at movies and on planes
― groovypanda, Friday, 24 November 2023 07:16 (six months ago) link
Wonder how ppl sharing that feel about immigration lol
― The narrative of arthur gordon pimp of nantucket (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 24 November 2023 08:02 (six months ago) link
take-home message, make sure you’re managed by profiteering assholes
― assert (matttkkkk), Friday, 24 November 2023 09:29 (six months ago) link
A Pint of lager can be €2 in Bratislava. €5 in Liverpool.€8 in London and €20 inNorway. Same Lager. Only thing thatchanged its value was theplace..So that's where we'regoing for Deano's stag, Slovakia
― The narrative of arthur gordon pimp of nantucket (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 24 November 2023 09:38 (six months ago) link
Lol
― m0stly clean (Slowsquatch), Friday, 24 November 2023 14:27 (six months ago) link
@highlight
― groovypanda, Thursday, 18 January 2024 06:11 (five months ago) link
the price of anything is the amount of lifetime you spend wondering if the quote is fake or not
― ꙮ (map), Friday, 26 January 2024 00:51 (four months ago) link
We do not talk enough about how the creator of bobs burgers has successfully switched the animated family dinamic from confrontational and toxic, to wholesome and loving. They successfully proved an animated show focused on a family doesn't have to exhibit some sort of abuse between eachother, in order to be entertaining or funny. The belchers represent the healthier and more idealistic depiction of a modern american family. They consistently touch on relatable and realistic problems from childhood life lessons to complicated adult conflicts all while not failing to maintain a consistent comedic relief. Bobs burgers is such a comforting show to watch if you grew up with any sort of childhood trauma or parental issues. It's also a great show to watch anyways because it's genuinely just such a fun, entertaining show. We need to praise bobs burgers more!
Not only is this not why I love Bob's Burgers, this feels like something one of my Deacons would have said I'm high school
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Sunday, 28 January 2024 22:35 (four months ago) link
Unconvinced that Bob's Burgers exists outside of 10-second clips and memes tbh.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 28 January 2024 23:24 (four months ago) link
Jesus is everything a thinkpiece now
Mommas of Daughters,Remember… they called her a distraction. Even when he took the field in a team sport.Even when she sat on the sidelines.Even when the cameras panned to her.Even when she is successful in her own right as a solo artist.Even when the franchise made money off of her.Even when the male dominated industry used her presence to bring itself out of years of declining popularity.She was the distraction. Remember?When society decided it was totally acceptable to call women distractions, remind them that what society is really trying to say is that they are still afraid of women with power. Mommas of Daughters, teach them to enter the room, the arena, any space with heads held high and a peace of mind that their distraction won’t warrant any type of reaction from her.✍️: Backwards N High Heels
Remember… they called her a distraction.
Even when he took the field in a team sport.Even when she sat on the sidelines.Even when the cameras panned to her.Even when she is successful in her own right as a solo artist.Even when the franchise made money off of her.Even when the male dominated industry used her presence to bring itself out of years of declining popularity.
She was the distraction. Remember?
When society decided it was totally acceptable to call women distractions, remind them that what society is really trying to say is that they are still afraid of women with power.
Mommas of Daughters, teach them to enter the room, the arena, any space with heads held high and a peace of mind that their distraction won’t warrant any type of reaction from her.
✍️: Backwards N High Heels
Like I like Taylor, think there was definitely misogyny present amongst male fans who complained about her presence or would call Kelce things like "cuck". I think their relationship is cute. I enjoyed watching her celebrate at games. People who are bothered by it can grow up.
But JFC, the NFL's income has increased every year except 2020, and this year's TV ratings during the regular season were the second highest in recorded history. So suggesting she singlehandedly saved football is hilarious.
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Monday, 29 January 2024 16:45 (four months ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/MBzV8xQ/Screenshot-20240211-132236.jpg
― never trust a big book and a simile (Neanderthal), Sunday, 11 February 2024 18:24 (four months ago) link
https://i.ibb.co/vQC4HrH/Screenshot-20240418-183032.jpg
― ain't nothin but a brie thing, baby (Neanderthal), Thursday, 18 April 2024 22:31 (two months ago) link