Some of you have been prodded before about this, so I must warn you: it'll be painful:
But vote in 30 books, people! *prod prod* I know for a fact that you can all read, and I'm pretty sure that you've read or heard of at least some books on that list - so vote! I might have to sulk at people who don't vote...
I apologice for anyone reading this who already has voted. I lob you.
On a very specific note: Meri! Pahus! Vote!!
Unrelated edit: My tea smells of my dog. Either I miss my dog very much or this cold has done something very strange to my smell-receptor
Quote of the month: "Hey, why do you have two noses?!" -"One's for showin', the other's for blowin'!"
Again it happened. A message from a member got me rambling about something semi-related:
I have a habit of being very mirror-like when it comes to internet personality, and maybe real life personality as well (it's not as easy to observe your own personality in reality as it is online). What I type is often toned according to the other people around, to reflect what I see of them. So talking to someone sarcastic tends to make me more sarcastic too, and someone really happy and bubbly makes me seem like that too, and a serious conversational
This is just a theory though (and not a very original one at that, either - was it Jung who said we all wear masks in different social situations?) The reason I'm observing it and so interested in it is because I'd lke to be able to make my art practice work like that too. A lot of artist's work is about sharing an experience - if the experience is universal enough the viewer will understand and learn from it. I'd prefer my art to be less about me (again, not an original idea) and more about the viewer entering the work to reflect him/herself from the work in order to learn about him/herself.
Apparently I can talk about myself sometimes. Fancy that. o.O
(The message-sender seems promising. A new nonner, mayhaps...)
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What? I'm ill, I'm excused some feverish babbling.
I've gone essay-happy. >_> Comical or cynical?.
If there are typos or whatever and you really want to edit the page, the password is 'nutty'.
Also, if you are into any kinds of comics, pay the wiki a visit and sign up as a member - I'm seriously curious about the amount of comic lovers in ET. :3
Time for you to interfere in my life again :P Read this and say when it doesn't make sense :P
Artist's Statement
I am a draftsman. I do both realistic drawing and drawing from imagination, and I use a lot of references for both. I use pencils, pens, inks, charcoal, pastels – almost anything that makes a mark without mixing colours before applying - as well as drawing programs on the computer (both raster and vector), with either a mouse, or a tablet and drawing pen. The technical aspects of my current practice explore the possible combinations of traditional drawing media with interactive new media tools, and the (ab)use of internet for artistic purposes.
My visual language is mechanical in a nostalgic sense: old-fashioned industrial precision in drawings of out-dated machine components. The work doesn’t discuss anything as such, it is more about the reality I live in. Yet in strange contradiction to that, I consider my work to be about nondividualism
The body of work produced for my degree show is – in the holistic tradition – more than the sum of its parts. The drawings and the final interactive pieces are accompanied by notes and sketches (not unlike the work of Marcel Duchamp) to make the space as a whole to contribute to the work, yet not quite as an installation.
Something [Fizban] said in a message got me on a roll:
Humm... I don't really know (how ET has changed over the years I've been here), I really only know my little corner of ET, which has only changed because I and my friends have changed. o.O Back in 2003 I only managed to get online in Sundays, which I dedicated to roleplaying with Silvie. Then I got more into the wiki and became wiki-obsessed. It seems that there were a lot more people in wikis back then, talking and finding the odd and random pages. So all the weird wikis had a conversation (or a flame war) going on, and that formed a group of people who all were on all wikis (wikimancers). I moved to England and started to be able to use the net more on a daily basis. Then I was invited to be in the council so I got into that forum-thing (most council-work is about sorting things out in forums -_-), which also has its own group of people who are in all the forums, talking and fighting. And that's pretty much as far as I've gone with it.
From my point of view, there aren't really 'years' in ET like there are in the real world, or at least I can't keep track. I wouldn't even say I've been here that long yet. o.O (And I just realised I have, four years! O_O)
I can't really say that things have changed much while I've been here, people are pretty much the same generally speaking. There will always be newbies, n00bs, flamers, spammers, l33tists and nice people. Everybody goes through the motions. Maybe the chavs are the first real group that I don't think I've ever been in. :P
An interesting personality test
http://www.kis
My result was ISFJ http://typelog
While I don't agree with all the bits there (family isn't everything for me, for example), it's still pretty accurate. Sides I don't count out the possibility that it includes things through life, (for example, while the family in which I was born isn't that important to me, maybe the one I make myself will be.) o.O
A list of things from the "suitable careers" thing:
Large, rich inner store of information which they gather about people - check: I'm like House, endlessly curious about people for no apparent reason.
Highly observant and aware of people's feelings and reactions - check: nothing better than observing people
Excellent memory for details which are important to them - check.
Very in-tune with their surroundings - excellent sense of space and function - not so sure, but I don't deny it. I have a shit sense of direction, though, is that the same as sense of space?
Can be depended on to follow things through to completion - check: this one gets me into trouble.
Will work long and hard to see that jobs get done - check.
Stable, practical, down-to-earth - they dislike working with theory and abstract thought - check the first part, but not the second part, I like abstract thought.
Dislike doing things which don't make sense to them - Erm, check? I thought everyone does,
Value security, tradition, and peaceful living - check, again: who doesn't?
Service-orient
Kind and considerate - check, although less so online.
Likely to put others' needs above their own - checkcheckchec
Learn best with hands-on training - So check.
Enjoy creating structure and order - Uhm, I didn't fold an A2 size paper 5-6 times to make a grid on which to draw... >_> Check.
Take their responsibiliti
Extremely uncomfortable with conflict and confrontation - Extreme is such an... extreme word...
The guy in the laundrette place was a yucky old gimp >.< The young guy who works there's ok, but this old guy was horrid. He was pestering us, wanted to see in the bag (we didn't let him), and was going on about whites and coloureds (the racist :P) when we don't give a damn and was everything mixed up. Grah, it was so annoying, and I think he's trying to be helpful but ends up being annoying and horrible.
I need to "demonstrate some experience or use of computers in design-related activities" for my MA application. I can not believe how hard this is turning out to be. I know how to use Photoshop/GIMP
Rantrantrant
gotoAndStop("framelabel"); would be the most obvious piece of code I can imagine, yet it is utterly un-working and any AS forums keep going on about making a movie clip act like a button. >.< May I ask, how exactly the buttons are programmable? And why the fuck can you give labels to button's frmaes if you can't fucking do anything with them in the script. Apologies to forum-people who already know, but see what this fortune cookie website told me:
"You have an evil heart and are greatly despised."
How did it know?!?!?! :O
I greatly recommend having something obvious said to you by this fortune cookie place: http://www.bad
Silvie (and Draug) calls me a jew. The other day I was in the studio talking to two guys who aren't in my utter closeclose circle of friends (Ct. Bligh and Frossie for the interest of the Fish who doesn't read blogs), and though I can't remember what we were talking about, Bligh's reply was an insult to me that consisted only of the word "you". but he said it like "j00" which sounds like "jew". I stood there stunned, and he already rushed to apologise, saying he was kidding etc... and I started laughing so hard and had to explain the jew-thing, and then where it comes from and that I'm not actually jewish and that I was so stunned because I was going "wait, how does he know" in my head. But it was awesome (and proves that I should indeed be called "jew")
-"j00!" XD
-"..."
-"ehh" O_o;;
-"Buahahahahaa
-"?"
-"I thought you said jew"
-"No no no, I'd never..."
-"And a friend of mine calls me a jew at times"
-"...are you Jewish?"
-"No, it comes from Harpo Marx, who was jewish... you know my MSN nickname Exapno Mapcase..."
-"aaaah! I thought you got really insulted there..."
-"No no, I just had to stop and think 'wait, how does he know?'"
Well it was funny when it happened. >_>
Hello and welcome back to "Quote the [Viking]"!
Here's today's quote:
No, I understand your point.
Your point is invalid.
This is not a bloodless war. Not even a 'relatively' bloodless war.
You do not understand the point of war. You do even not understand the concept of war. Until you can understant basic concepts, I must consider your opinions to be those of an ignorant child.
Thank you for listening, and don't forget to tune in next week for more quotes from the [Viking]!
Sorry for another one (I'm turning into someone we know O_O)
But I have to share this. These are photos of a Finnish secondary school class visiting Sweden six years ago. My class to be specific. How often do you find a picture of yourself (yes, I'm there) on the internet? :O
http://opetus.
All I did was googled the name of an old friend.
www.obscure.or
Wow.
If you have the time, please read this. It is the introduction to my dissertation, and I'd like some outsider-feedb
INTRODUCTION
Is there something particularly amusing about outdated machinery? When put like that, as a direct question, it is not easy to think so; why would there be? Yet there are a number of examples of funny machinery that come to mind: in science fiction the droids R2-D2 and C-3PO in ‘Star Wars’, the robot Orvis in the book of the same title by HM Hoover; in family movies Herbie the Volkswagen, side characters in Pixar’s ‘Cars’ and all the protagonists of the animation ‘Robots’; even in classic comedies like Charlie Chaplin’s “Modern Times” and Buster Keaton’s “The General” – although using technology current to the time when they were made – place the machine as the comic relief as well as an agent of change. A different although related pleasure derived from old-time machinery in specific is apparent in numerous stories – whether drawn, written, or filmed – where the hero’s out-of-date equipment defeats the villain’s state-of-the-a
Although the old machinery is often used as comic relief, it is also usually done in a very endearing way, while the humour based on new machinery – jokes or satire about personal computers, mp3-players or whatever the latest technological rave – is more frequently spiteful. The main observable difference between older machinery and the technology we live with is the process the machinery goes through when it operates. Anyone can logically follow the courses of action that a car engine goes through to convert fuel to motion, yet the physical workings of a PC are a mystery to the average user. Most of us could only come up with a feeble “it’s something to do with silicon chips.”
So a humorous role is something not uncommon for the mechanical to play, and it does so in works of art as well. Marcel Duchamp’s “The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even” – also known as “the Large Glass” – is often called the artist’s “hilarious picture.” But would it be hilarious if the different elements in it were depicted as people? The Bride in her naked glory taunting the Bachelor who “grinds his own chocolate.” Would Alvar Gullichsen’s “Bonk Business inc.” –project be amusing if the imagined family of Bonk had stayed in the fishing business and never invented anything? In the least it wouldn’t be as extensive as it is today: after all there are only so many jokes one can make about anchovies.
So that is what this essay is out to do: explore the humorous in the mechanical and the mechanical in the humorous. The aforementioned works of art, “The Large Glass,” and “Bonk Business inc.” shed the light on the matter along with the cartoons of Rube Goldberg and W. Heath Robinson. Different established theories of humour are also discussed and reflected in relation to the examples.
So please comment, anything it made you think about, any corrections to the language, anything at all.
Also, would you be interested to read a study about this, based on this intro? Did it get you interested enough to wanna read on?
Thanks.