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Sometimes I see images that are constructed for mainstreamers that they are probably supposed to think ‘looks cool’, but since I am so design-aware, I can’t help but think it looks tacky and uninspired. So while a person over the age of 35 will think ‘whoa–how did they get all of those players on that magazine cover? Totes looks like they are going after 1 ball…’ I think it is stupid because they just created a bunch of layers in Adobe Photoshop. Not very impressive, yall. coulda made that cover as the project for my first class at college–Photoshop 101: for design majors and non majors.
I kinda h8 how my design school education makes me enjoy stuff that is ’supposed to look cool’ a lot less. Every time I see a flyer, an advertisement, a webpage, or a commercial, I know exactly how it is made since I am skilled at every Adobe Design Suite Program. So while images might ‘look interesting’, the process behind them seems so EZ 2 replicate that I am just way above it. Sometimes I feel like I need 2 ‘ditch technology’ and only design authentic things by manually cutting and pasting things together, but I am 0% skilled and kraftwerk.
It’s like u see a video of a kid AZN who can make all of these ‘amazing effects’ and then u realize that this standardized technology has gimmicked us 2 think that we are able to better express ourselves’ because the bottleneck of creativity has widened just cuz we have more tools, but still kinda just express the same shittie concept/topics + implement lamer aesthetics.
h8 creative azns. Isn’t it kinda funnie how teachers in high school are probably making poorly informed decisions to encourage kids who can ‘make laser fight videos’ to pursue a career in the arts/film, when there is actually a supersaturated market of ‘tweens who have an inaccurate self-concept in which they tell themselves that they are unique and creative because their parents bought them a high-end computer’?
(h8 tweens who brand themselves as ‘creative’ so that they don’t have to take Calculus/physics/math/science/etc)
Is Adobe + Apple bad for kids? Should ppl only be allowed to ‘make art’ after they are done with college because their ideas ‘probably suck’ b4 then, and u should save them the humiliation of displaying their naivety in a piece of work that will last 4ever?
<3/h8 Adobe Creative Suite
Adobe gives creativity 'a new life.'
Without the Adobe Creative Suite, I would not be able to make art/design/memes.
Without the internet, I wouldn't get the feedback from my 'art' which would give me the positive reinforcement that is necessary to 'keep going.'
Dear Lord,
Thank u 4 Adobe. I will use u. But when I create ‘art’, I will make sure to not make it so obvious that I utilized ur functionality, and try 2 have my ‘art’ exist in its own space to be evaluated. I value ur product, but I don’t want ppl to evaluate my technical skills in the final product.
Best,
Carles
Parsons / Pratt Class of 2011
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//////////Reply by dvdi
//////////Posted March 5th, 2009 at 5:03 pm
@dvdi,
Sick of auth-AZNs
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soooo right. great post carles
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the musik and fitting effect titles toats push the video into a superb level of existence.
p.s. i love you Red X.
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fucking mstrkrft song starts on its own every time i load the page… killing me
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//////////Reply by truth
//////////Posted March 6th, 2009 at 9:30 am
@quantz, yeah crls that SUCKS!
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I LOVE COLLEGE BASQUETBOL / MARCH MADNESS BUT ITS HARD TO INCORPORATE INTO MY PERSONAL BRAND. s00 MAINSTREAM. JUST WANA B AUTHENTIC… WAT SHOULD I DO CRLS?
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//////////Reply by Niat
//////////Posted March 6th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
@REMBARDNT FON RIGHN,
give up thinking about what your brand is. That’s sad.
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//////////Reply by cj's
//////////Posted March 6th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
@REMBARDNT FON RIGHN,
if you are a little bit hiphop or even if you like it a little, you can buy a fitted baseball hat & find a matching AA hoodie :D
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//////////Reply by †®åπP
//////////Posted August 12th, 2009 at 4:10 am
@REMBARDNT FON RIGHN, leave your hobbies hobbies and your wardrobe something on its own
also typing normally doesn’t narrow the reader’s idea of what kind of person you could be, seeing as you’re concerned about that
pps i think matching hats with other pieces is sort of ‘level 1 fashion sense’ tacky, unless its an earthy color (which doesn’t really occur with sports teams too often)
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h8 gdes. but <3 gdes.
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helvetica… and google image search! damn why didnt i think of that?
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//////////Reply by arajay
//////////Posted March 5th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
@35yrold, HA! STORY OF MY LIFE
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carles. you are what you hate. why haven’t you self destructed yet?
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//////////Reply by littlesparrow
//////////Posted March 6th, 2009 at 1:59 am
@tlyle, you are a dork
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//////////Reply by DwayneWayne
//////////Posted March 6th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
@littlesparrow,
u are a dork. Tlyle, you are not.
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I think the abundance of tools has lead to a fetishism of execution. “Art/Design School” now a days focuses so much on the mastery of the tools they forget that the real art is in the idea not the execution.
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//////////Reply by octopus magic
//////////Posted March 5th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
@mattstone,
ya theres too many classes trying to teach you avid or flash or quark and none of it matters because you should be learning that on your own with the computer or going to community college because that shit goes out of date within a few years anyways. who the fuck still uses quark????? NO ONE WITH ANY BRAINS!!!! yeah your flash class is going to do a lot for you when everyone is using new versions of css that incorporate motion now. ideas are bigger than computer programs and most colleges have forgotten this because its easier and gets more money.
but whatever
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//////////Reply by arajay
//////////Posted March 5th, 2009 at 8:07 pm
@octopus magic, my undergrad exp was the exact opposite: got a strong grasp of color, composition & the conceptual but only basic CS knowledge. most software i learned on the job. – University of New Orleans c/o 2006
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//////////Reply by octopus magic
//////////Posted March 6th, 2009 at 12:02 pm
@arajay, lucky you.
half of my classes were sitting there looking at how to tween items and generally wasting timeeeee
(BITTER ABOUT COLLEGE STILL)
//////////Reply by Eli B.
//////////Posted June 27th, 2009 at 3:37 pm
@octopus magic, We were learning Quark and I asked the teacher why since everyone uses InDesign and he gave me shit like ‘well you don’t know that many people in the industry so your perception is skewed’ and then the very next semester we dumped Quark on all the computers for Indesign because ‘nobody was using quark anymore’ and ‘the industry was trending toward InDesign’
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crls,
i totes agree to tha nth power. h8 that tiny AZNs r better @ art than me cuz my art skool is 2 authentic for photoshop.
my art iz 2 deep to be a meme, so it will never ‘go viral’ on the internetz or become ‘relevent in japan’.
i feel kinda invalidated here, yall. just wanted to go to art skool 2 b legit, but now i know i can never truly be a little AZN boy w/ adobe lightning coming out of my hands.
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//////////Reply by Small AZN
//////////Posted March 5th, 2009 at 11:26 pm
@mister crocodile, I heard your art is shittie, that’s why it’ll nvr go viral.
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//////////Reply by *Jesse
//////////Posted March 6th, 2009 at 11:08 am
@Small AZN,
LOL
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according 2 animal collective, all u need is “4 walls and adobe slabs 4 my girls.” Maybe the ‘4 walls’ are the macbooks, and the adobe slabs are adobe software. maybe the band wants 2 be designers instead of ‘conceptual thinkers.’ maybe i want 2 b a designer.
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//////////Reply by AstroCandy
//////////Posted March 6th, 2009 at 1:52 am
@Gurkman, shut the fuck up
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//////////Reply by *Jesse
//////////Posted March 6th, 2009 at 11:12 am
@Gurkman,
NO, yer duMb….the ‘4 walLs’ represeNt 4 monitoRs [via Im so0 keWl bcauSe I linkEd uP 4 monitoRs, but rlLy onLy neEd oNe] and girLs represenTs ‘coKe’ becauSe thaTs what blax/mxz caLl it iN tHe hoOd.
That took me a while to type that. Am I dumb?
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//////////Reply by w
//////////Posted June 24th, 2009 at 6:34 pm
@*Jesse, poignant analysis. why aren’t you writing for Pitchfork?
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adobe cs4!!! jeez get with it.
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How much did adobe pay you for that post?
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h8 the term “graphic artist” makes the term artist overused n cheap. like the peeps that “designed” that si cover using photo collage techniques a kid old enough to use scissors alone could reinvent. those kids are real artists. they r authentic and dont even try.
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adobe has no connection to this bog and reserves the right to disclaim any and all references the adobe brand pending investigation.
PS. AIR WAR CC RULES!
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//////////Reply by AIDS macROBOT
//////////Posted March 5th, 2009 at 10:41 pm
dear 35yrold,
well xxzxcuz me, I disagree
but,
I still <3 u
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wish there was a photoshop 4 the brain that airbrushes fat ppl.
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what kind of lightsaber was that.elowel.
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“Isn’t it kinda funnie how teachers in high school are probably making poorly informed decisions to encourage kids who can ‘make laser fight videos’ to pursue a career in the arts/film, when there is actually a supersaturated market of ‘tweens who have an inaccurate self-concept in which they tell themselves that they are unique and creative because their parents bought them a high-end computer’?
(h8 tweens who brand themselves as ‘creative’ so that they don’t have to take Calculus/physics/math/science/etc)”
oh man, best part of the entire post. i can relate to this in so many ways after seeing it day in and day out when i was in hikeschool.
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//////////Reply by truth
//////////Posted March 6th, 2009 at 9:32 am
@kmoneymobsta, true dat.
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//////////Reply by w
//////////Posted June 24th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
@truth, as science geek > fotophile, i feel satisfaction and irony in that statement. but yes. it was also my favorite.
(h8 tweens who brand themselves as ‘creative’ so that they don’t have to take Calculus/physics/math/science/etc)
stupid kids don’t know math, means no one can CREATE these tools in the future. how to progress when no tools available for the builders?
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Weirdly underfurnished AZN house in that video.
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//////////Reply by louis
//////////Posted March 5th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
@ES, he lives n 1 of them compunds wher they grow azns to be (sm)arty
[via dead parents]
prisonwall
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People tend to use effects and technology for the sake of them. If you want to be creative then actualy create something; sketch it out or storyboard the idea and THEN apply technology to make it happen. Amazing concept huh?
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lern to draw. unkay yall learn to draw and luk at sum newds and feel that shit. fuk cs3 and whatnot. u got to start sumwur. cs3 is fer peeps that knowsumshit.
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grand theft auto iv
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too bad all the kids that good in history and english cant even work fucking adobe programs. h8 you writing-intensive high school courses. h8 you counselors for saying math and science wasnt my “calling.” now im stuck working fast-food trying to get an associates in pubic affairs.
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//////////Reply by w
//////////Posted June 24th, 2009 at 6:38 pm
@Me!, ob/gyn
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I’m so glad that my frinds ‘get’ this too.
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Yeah,yall !where is the creativity?
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oh, there it is
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Yeah!!! This is a whole new level for the Hipster Runoffs!
Down with posts about meaninfulcore and i just pooped my pants pants! Up with posts about design!
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1) Tao Lin’s lil bro.
2) I asked for Adobe Photoshop cs4 for my sixteenth birthday.
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lmao carly
you used a sports illustrated to whine about artistic/meaningful/creative/insightful work?
k so next post take a Maxim mag and talk/complain about the mainstream chicas lack of substance
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Crls is mnstrm?
Is SI alt?
Is basketball alt bcuz it’s a ‘melting pot’ of different races (minus armenians/pnoyz/mexiz)?
so0 confused
:o/
I got a bootleg copy of CS and I don’t even fuck wit dat shit. Pen and paper is auth because it kills trees and octopuses [via ink]
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//////////Reply by *Jesse
//////////Posted March 6th, 2009 at 11:19 am
@*Jesse,
PS- <3 u crls
PPS- doesn’t it make you laff when you hear a mnstrm alt talk about “dude, I just got into AI!” ?
PPPS- If I go to AI will I be able to learn how to make FB apps that let people suck my ‘metaphorical’ hard candy?
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I’m a video editor, sir. You leave the professionals alone.
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//////////Reply by w
//////////Posted June 24th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
@Alf In Yo Mouf . com, heh
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“…when there is actually a supersaturated market of ‘tweens who have an inaccurate self-concept in which they tell themselves that they are unique and creative because their parents bought them a high-end computer’?….”
This is the shit I love you for, Carles.
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damn bro
that’s my little brother
didn’t know he was messing with that shit
damn
not sure what to do
damn
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“there is actually a supersaturated market of ‘tweens who have an inaccurate self-concept in which they tell themselves that they are unique and creative because their parents bought them a high-end computer’?
(h8 tweens who brand themselves as ‘creative’ so that they don’t have to take Calculus/physics/math/science/etc)”
99% art/graphic design/rtf students.
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u R 0% skilled at the English language and following through on a critical thought to a meaningful conclusion. This is why [your parents paid for] you [to] go to art school.
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