I have about a week left of classes.. I'm withdrawing from school after this semester ends and almost certainly moving on from the "college" route. (Atelier hoooo)
I basically decided to not go to the last two sessions of my Art History II class and doing the final paper and test. I am virtually guaranteed get an F for it as a result. I decided that even though none of these grades or credits will matter afterward that I wanted to take that time and energy and invest them in the 5 other final projects for classes I care more about.
It's bothering me a lot more than I expected. I was not especially studious in High School but I've never failed a class before, and definitely never intentionally sabotaged myself so spectacularly.
MetalbourneInside a cluster b personalityRegistered Userregular
edited May 2010
On the positive side, Scos, You failed a class that is really boring.
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edited May 2010
Tam have you atoned yet?
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Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
I have about a week left of classes.. I'm withdrawing from school after this semester ends and almost certainly moving on from the "college" route. (Atelier hoooo)
I basically decided to not go to the last two sessions of my Art History II class and doing the final paper and test. I am virtually guaranteed get an F for it as a result. I decided that even though none of these grades or credits will matter afterward that I wanted to take that time and energy and invest them in the 5 other final projects for classes I care more about.
It's bothering me a lot more than I expected. I was not especially studious in High School but I've never failed a class before, and definitely never intentionally sabotaged myself so spectacularly.
Make me feel better guys
Trust me man, you shouldn't feel bad at all. You're trading in learning technique over an imaginary letter grade.
I have about a week left of classes.. I'm withdrawing from school after this semester ends and almost certainly moving on from the "college" route. (Atelier hoooo)
I basically decided to not go to the last two sessions of my Art History II class and doing the final paper and test. I am virtually guaranteed get an F for it as a result. I decided that even though none of these grades or credits will matter afterward that I wanted to take that time and energy and invest them in the 5 other final projects for classes I care more about.
It's bothering me a lot more than I expected. I was not especially studious in High School but I've never failed a class before, and definitely never intentionally sabotaged myself so spectacularly.
Make me feel better guys
Ok. I'll give you what I actually remember from my Art History courses, so you can go straight to just remembering the bits that you'd probably actually remember anyway and not have to bust your ass learning shit you wouldn't:
-There was cave art done by cavemen and they drew buffalos.
-Medieval art was all about the Christian faith, Renaissance art was all about the Christian faith except people started getting wink-wink nudge nudge about it because they got all horned up looking at old Greek statues and wanted to draw some naked dudes of their own, on churches.
-Also, the Medicis were like fucking rich like WHOA.
-Vasari, the first "art historian", was an embarrassing fanboy nerd to the point that he often seems half a drink away from going into self-insertion slash fiction with Giotto in his writings.
-Japanese people have been drawing people having raunchy sex with monsters for hundreds of years.
-There was some art during the French Revolution.
-Impressionism happened, then modern art happened, then post-modern art happened, and now here we are.
-Art historians are way more interested in the sex life of artists than how they actually painted stuff, and as a result like to apply their sub-Wikipedia level of understanding of Freudian psychology to everything an artist does so they have something to talk about, because that's way easier than coming up with some interesting to say by doing research.
There, I've saved you a ton of time and money on Art History courses, and you can go about your business with a clean conscience.
The problem with art history classes is that they focus too much on movements rather than on individuals which imo is far more important because certain artists who were incredible technicians get left out of the limelight because they may have not contributed to a movement as much, but did other things incredibly well.
Those president paintings are a little disturbing.. in a kitschy/gimmicky way.. to each his own i guess.
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MetalbourneInside a cluster b personalityRegistered Userregular
edited May 2010
Okay, I'm just going to say it: I hate Gabe and Tycho's "Lookouts" thing. It's boring and pretentious hidden under some boy scouts in a fantasy setting.
Okay, I'm just going to say it: I hate Gabe and Tycho's "Lookouts" thing. It's boring and pretentious hidden under some boy scouts in a fantasy setting.
I actually quite enjoyed the first one, but this one is boring as all hell. Maybe it was the guest strips.
The problem with art history classes is that they focus too much on movements rather than on individuals which imo is far more important because certain artists who were incredible technicians get left out of the limelight because they may have not contributed to a movement as much, but did other things incredibly well.
Those president paintings are a little disturbing.. in a kitschy/gimmicky way.. to each his own i guess.
Its a history class. And on top of that most Undergraduate art history courses are surveys into the entire artistic history of the human race, even spanning into pre-history, so of course they are going to usually cover the important players in major movements. Talking about the idiosyncrasies of Dude McArt, and how great he was at drawing horses, and how he really innovated the horse-drawing world, on top of covering two thousand years of other great technicians in recorded human history in terms of art is asinine. If you are interested in learning more about specific artists, courses exist out there. Otherwise pick up a book. Studying particular artists in depth and learning everything about them is usually what individual research for a thesis would be.
Okay, I'm just going to say it: I hate Gabe and Tycho's "Lookouts" thing. It's boring and pretentious hidden under some boy scouts in a fantasy setting.
boring I wont argue with on that, your taste is your taste, but you got pretentious from it? Why because its written in verse?
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MetalbourneInside a cluster b personalityRegistered Userregular
Okay, I'm just going to say it: I hate Gabe and Tycho's "Lookouts" thing. It's boring and pretentious hidden under some boy scouts in a fantasy setting.
boring I wont argue with on that, your taste is your taste, but you got pretentious from it? Why because its written in verse?
It's the huge, fake air of exaggerated drama and atmosphere. It's like the cartoon is pointing to itself going, "Here! Look at this! It's so epic!" and I'm like, "What? Where?"
Ok. I'll give you what I actually remember from my Art History courses, so you can go straight to just remembering the bits that you'd probably actually remember anyway and not have to bust your ass learning shit you wouldn't:
-There was cave art done by cavemen and they drew buffalos.
-Medieval art was all about the Christian faith, Renaissance art was all about the Christian faith except people started getting wink-wink nudge nudge about it because they got all horned up looking at old Greek statues and wanted to draw some naked dudes of their own, on churches.
-Also, the Medicis were like fucking rich like WHOA.
-Vasari, the first "art historian", was an embarrassing fanboy nerd to the point that he often seems half a drink away from going into self-insertion slash fiction with Giotto in his writings.
-Japanese people have been drawing people having raunchy sex with monsters for hundreds of years.
-There was some art during the French Revolution.
-Impressionism happened, then modern art happened, then post-modern art happened, and now here we are.
-Art historians are way more interested in the sex life of artists than how they actually painted stuff, and as a result like to apply their sub-Wikipedia level of understanding of Freudian psychology to everything an artist does so they have something to talk about, because that's way easier than coming up with some interesting to say by doing research.
There, I've saved you a ton of time and money on Art History courses, and you can go about your business with a clean conscience.
Holy crap. That's it in a nutshell.
e: Also, Fletcher, that gave me déjà vu for some reason.
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MetalbourneInside a cluster b personalityRegistered Userregular
edited May 2010
Honestly, if churches had more pornography, I would attend.
Fuck it I'm not gonna wait. Who wants to join the first non-denominational church of Metalbourne?
I think the only interesting art history courses I've ever taken were a comic art history class and a class on plague art. We even spent a portion of one class discussing the WoW plague that hit some servers a few years back and how it mimicked a real world outbreak.
I did! I called her last night left a message "Hey, this is napp, Just give me a call back when you can!" She texts me this morning "Hey! what was up?" So... like, I feel like i should just tell her... but then I'd be asking her out over text....
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so everything is as it should be
though that's also really distressing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fS7v9rtm3Y&feature=related
also it dances again
I basically decided to not go to the last two sessions of my Art History II class and doing the final paper and test. I am virtually guaranteed get an F for it as a result. I decided that even though none of these grades or credits will matter afterward that I wanted to take that time and energy and invest them in the 5 other final projects for classes I care more about.
It's bothering me a lot more than I expected. I was not especially studious in High School but I've never failed a class before, and definitely never intentionally sabotaged myself so spectacularly.
Make me feel better guys
Nothing, I just wanted to post that video :P
edit: too slow old man
Trust me man, you shouldn't feel bad at all. You're trading in learning technique over an imaginary letter grade.
That's a damn good compromise.
For those who don't know who Ross Noble is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxVec_zCC80&feature=related
Ok. I'll give you what I actually remember from my Art History courses, so you can go straight to just remembering the bits that you'd probably actually remember anyway and not have to bust your ass learning shit you wouldn't:
-There was cave art done by cavemen and they drew buffalos.
-Medieval art was all about the Christian faith, Renaissance art was all about the Christian faith except people started getting wink-wink nudge nudge about it because they got all horned up looking at old Greek statues and wanted to draw some naked dudes of their own, on churches.
-Also, the Medicis were like fucking rich like WHOA.
-Vasari, the first "art historian", was an embarrassing fanboy nerd to the point that he often seems half a drink away from going into self-insertion slash fiction with Giotto in his writings.
-Japanese people have been drawing people having raunchy sex with monsters for hundreds of years.
-There was some art during the French Revolution.
-Impressionism happened, then modern art happened, then post-modern art happened, and now here we are.
-Art historians are way more interested in the sex life of artists than how they actually painted stuff, and as a result like to apply their sub-Wikipedia level of understanding of Freudian psychology to everything an artist does so they have something to talk about, because that's way easier than coming up with some interesting to say by doing research.
There, I've saved you a ton of time and money on Art History courses, and you can go about your business with a clean conscience.
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To be frank, I think the same the could be said for more than a few modern artists as well.
EDIT: The second result using the keywords 'artist' and 'sex':
Artist paints herself having sex with each president of the USA (NSFW)
It's like a Kate Beaton guest strip by Jess Fink.
Those president paintings are a little disturbing.. in a kitschy/gimmicky way.. to each his own i guess.
I actually quite enjoyed the first one, but this one is boring as all hell. Maybe it was the guest strips.
Its a history class. And on top of that most Undergraduate art history courses are surveys into the entire artistic history of the human race, even spanning into pre-history, so of course they are going to usually cover the important players in major movements. Talking about the idiosyncrasies of Dude McArt, and how great he was at drawing horses, and how he really innovated the horse-drawing world, on top of covering two thousand years of other great technicians in recorded human history in terms of art is asinine. If you are interested in learning more about specific artists, courses exist out there. Otherwise pick up a book. Studying particular artists in depth and learning everything about them is usually what individual research for a thesis would be.
boring I wont argue with on that, your taste is your taste, but you got pretentious from it? Why because its written in verse?
It's the huge, fake air of exaggerated drama and atmosphere. It's like the cartoon is pointing to itself going, "Here! Look at this! It's so epic!" and I'm like, "What? Where?"
music makes the people come together.
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Holy crap. That's it in a nutshell.
e: Also, Fletcher, that gave me déjà vu for some reason.
Fuck it I'm not gonna wait. Who wants to join the first non-denominational church of Metalbourne?
something tells me you wouldn't be placing bread in peoples' mouths
More likely that ND was proposing a "cummunion".
Gross. What's wrong with you, ND?
Nobody understands me.
Haha!
hahaha!
Man. I want to grow up to be Jess Fink. And Brandon Graham.
This one got a laugh out of me: http://www.justinelai.com/LaiJoinOrDie15.png [still NSFW]
I had to look up Jess Fink, but yeah, that's exactly what it's like.
Now to go out and do something normal.