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September 17, 2021 8:37 pm oh…ya know…just thought someone should say something when the comment section we all used for over a decade has been removed from the website unceremoniously…but alas I’m the lone old sentimental one here… …or wait, is this all just a Kang-ian challenge from iFanboy to enter the time-stream and randomly post comments-from-the-future into old pick of the week comment sections in a bid for comment section dominance culminating in an out-of-control trend which forces the total destruction of comment section throughout all time? Challenge Accepted! Hmm? What’s that? It’s not a Kang-ian challenge? People are all just busy, lazy or indifferent? Oh well. Fun while it lasted. Time to go pet a cat instead.
August 31, 2021 9:15 pm sniff...so long comment section. you served us well.
July 26, 2021 1:56 pm re: one of one print purchases There are five reasons to buy art, all of which may be contributing factors but typically one reason is dominate. My guess is that your reluctance to buy one of one prints is based on your reason why you buy Art combined with an antiquated notion about “the role of the artist” My guess would be that you are buying art for the category reason of “souvenir”. You had an experience upon viewing a work, meaning was transferred and you seek to recreate that meaning/experience again. You want a remnant of a creative act to obtain a connection to the object which gave you the experience. (See philosopher John Dewey’s “Art as Experience” to learn more and explained) A computer generated print is removed from the creative process just enough in your head to break the experience chain. Ask yourself if you watched Jorge Fornes draw on a computer in front of you and then bought that computer with the drawing on the screen, would that seem closer to the experience you desire? If so then you know your reluctance is based on your reason for buying art. For those playing at home the other four reasons are: investment, decor, patronage, status. If your dominate reason for buying art was “investment “ there would be no reluctance to purchasing a one of one print as it will have value. If your reason to buy Art was “decor” all you would care about is the end image and the original or the print would both look equally as pretty over your couch…etc.. for the rest… “patronage” = the artist gets the money either way; “status” = your friends will be impressed by the exclusivity and good taste of it regardless. Also you guys have views about art and the art process that have not been relevant in contemporary art since the 1950s. It’s OK as most everyone in society shares the same views. A current contemporary artist rarely has a complete creative hand in the final outcome of their artwork and use many people to help in the fabrication and installation. As an aside: Most photographers do not shoot on film, or use the chemical process to create silver gelatin prints. (side-side note: all photographers manipulate the image, even just by their framing and selection, so it is an act of creating through decisions/choices even if the final image is unmanipulated and it is more than mere “capturing”) Fine art printing is not just pressing print on your screen, unless you wish to remove any nuance and distinction from the process (and that is already making the difference of any lithography, screen printing and other hand printing techniques from technological based ones) You have this old belief based on the simplified mythology of the past that the “true” artists does everything themselves which was never really the case and is mostly not the case currently. An architect doesn’t build his own buildings, an industrial designer doesn’t forge his own products and an artist does not need to fabricate their own work. It’s a big jump to make because people who want to be right more than they want to be open can easily reductio ad absurdum that logic out to make themselves feel better and not need to change, but it is true to the contemporary art of today. and if you read this far on a post weeks after the fact you should really find something better to do with your life.
June 2, 2021 6:38 pm I’m single handedly trying to get these comment numbers up to the ol’ Josh “What’s Wrong With You” posts levels.
June 2, 2021 6:34 pm NFTs People may act like NFTs aren’t solely about profiteering without productivity, as some financial derivative, but when any artist already has a viable method of working within the given system to monetize their work* but hops on this Ponzi scheme fad it is solely about cashing in and who cares who is left holding the bag. *Digital Art :simply print up any digital original onto Bristol board and chop (embossed mark) it, stamp it, and sign it like all fine artists’ prints already do. Create at any print run to set value. Marks equal provenance. Sell in original art market channels. That said it does feel like I’m living in a world where we’re going off the gold standard and everyone is like “this is great, we all just need to pretend this paper means something now” and I’m the hold out who is like “you’re all crazy. this will collapse.”
June 2, 2021 6:18 pm 22 pages for 6 books = 132 pages total 20 pages for 5 books = 100 pages total A difference of 32 pages or 24% from the original. Losing almost a quarter of the story.
June 2, 2021 6:16 pm Is Doctor Doom really a Doctor though? Doom’s origin clearly has him expelled from college after the whole face-scarring, exploding astral projection machine fiasco that Reed Richards tried to mess up with his proper math calculations or as it’s also known, the driving animus of Doom against Reed. Unless it’s been retconed I sense some sort of mail order Latverian degree situation here...
March 31, 2021 3:30 pm As a former film projectionist at both a commercial multiplex and educational IMAX theaters long long ago, I could reminisce for weeks about the good ol analog days of yore, but I will practice restraint and only mention this: The loop that a projectionist makes above and below the gate plate / lens housing is called a Latham Loop and the purpose is also to steady the image on the screen (so the film clicks through one frame at a time) as well as provide slack when stopping and starting the projector. Sprocket holes wear out over time (get warped and larger) allowing slack in the strip which can result in a film hopping off its sprocket roller and scratching, snapping and tearing the film to bits. The main reason for burning a film though is from the motor stopping while the bulb is on (without shutting the damper). Less than a second and poof. The bulbs are xenon under such a crazy pressure/vacuum that you used to have to don like a padded lead bomb-disposal unit type vest and face shield to change them. I could go on but you could just Google and learn more than I can remember...people are pretty obsolete nowadays. And it’s time to head back to comic shop and pick this issue up...
February 22, 2021 8:23 pm Conor’s comments about story points changing characters pre-supposes a belief in the “one continuity” —all one story that all counts— which is a modern Bronze-era invention resulting from aging readers with regular direct market access. Prior to that if Superman had a child or a lion’s head one issue it had no result on the next year’s story or even the next issue. Which makes it odd that Conor then said characters need to be unchanging, a Golden & Silver age conceit when children read briefly then grew out of the stories. Batman had to always be Batman for any new reader to understand quickly to enjoy the adventure. Perhaps the real debate is why market comics to the continuing reoccurring readership of adults if you demand unchanging characters for IP exploitation, especially since the past decade was spent grooming your adult readers to believe in the “one continuity”. Just abandon your “one continuity” beliefs and none of this debate will matter.
February 10, 2021 7:44 pm Man once you post something and walk away you realize it would’ve been funnier to just keep listing comic book of the decade suggestions like: 1950’s should be EC Crime Suspense Stories #22 (put into evidence in US Senate hearing on juvenile delinquency ushering in new era) 1970s should be tie between Green Lantern Green Arrow #85 & Amazing Spider-Man #96 for defying/ breaking the comics code authority and ending the era allowing more adult comics to come into being 1990s should def be Jim Lee X-Men #1 top selling comic of all time ehhhh sorta five covers 2010s should be NYT best seller “Smile” by Raina Telgemeier shifting focus to the book trade of comics the big growing market influencing mainstream comics thereafter. and so on... this is how the world ends, not with wars but with pointless lists...