nice blog, loser....get a life

you think he is a loser? you are the one who i reading it. maybe YOU are the loser, bub!

i think you are BOTH losers...dont you have anything better to do than post comments on people's blogs? i know i am doing it....but only because i have cookies in the oven and i am waiting for them to be done!

you guys are ALL losers...im going to go hang out with hot girls now

Ummm... Are you guys for real? Is this one of my friends or brothers pretending to be some angry anonymous poster? I guess I AM a loser. I will try harder to make this worth your time to read. Oh, can I have some cookies? Please?
--me for real

I vote for traffic circles.

That's interesting about how we all tend to draw things the same way, but isn't it a pretty obvious observation? What conclusions do you draw from it? That that is how signs and signifiers develop? My niece, at around 5 years old, taught me how to draw a rose. It involved a diminishing spiral (I think that's how to say it) for the tips of the petals.

I love these comments. I'm going to start a blog too. Because somebody needs to tell me how much I suck. The world has been slacking off. (Hint hint: you COULD just add some negative remarks about me here...)
--kk

You know what an obvious observation is?
Dat,
YOU SUCK!!!!!!

Hey there. Y'all need to chill out.
kk, I guess it's obvious, but I guess I think it's important. Like, when you teach people how to draw, it's like you are teching them how to SEE things. When you firsst try to draw a cup with charcoal or something, and you realize that it doesn't even have any real outlines, and that there are no cicles or strait lines really, and that the shadows and reflections cause all these lines in the environment that reflect the form, really an infinite reflection all around it, however deep you choose to look, or you hand gets tired or the paper gets rough or you have to pee. So, it just goes to show, people are on auto-pilot most of the time. It takes effort to understan the world a little closer to the truth. Some scinetists say that because no computation system can run a simulation of itself that is as complicated as itself, that the human mind can never understand itself. That means that we are like a little nugget of imperfect, sub-potential understanding in a universe of confusion and misdirection. How can we ever hope to get a level head? Perhaps if we run the simulation slow enough, with utmost effort, perhaps we can get a little closer to seeing what things are. Like when people redscovered perspective, they suddenly were able to understand a world as a geometric reality. I think that must have been a revelation for the artists, an amazing new way of understanding what the world was. Now, imagine that there is a new way of drawing waiting to be discovered that could change your way of seeing the world just as much as perspective did... That people say there isn't just kind of means that there is. We are in too much of a shitty place for history to be at all at all over. I wonder what that way of drawing could be? Could it stop us from burning any witches? What do I have to do to figure it out? Now, I have not figured it out yet, so I'm not claiming any kind of upsmanship, but I guess that perspective must have seemed obvious when it was discovered. Like, oh yeah, parallel lines appear to converge as they go off into the distance. I'm not sure what it is about the obvious fact that people all naturally draw teacups the same that intrigues me, but I think it might be that there is something automated in the way we perceive the world, that the simulation is very rough, and that it can be improved by some kind of calibration system. Like a plug-in for a editing program. Once the information is present, the simulation flows more smoothly.
--c'est moi, le blogge extraudde

You're always trying to start a revolution.
So, observing vs. executing… I can see that something has been drawn in a certain style, perspective, etc, but I can't replicate it myself. Why is there such a disconnect between seeing/understanding and actually doing/recreating?
Do you think you can see and understand a drawing, etc., more fully, richly after you try to replicate it yourself?
--kk