Who's pretentious?
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- k0na_an0k0
i pretended to be a doctor once and tried to deliver a baby at the airport, i just wanted to cop a feel . actually the whole incident turned out pretty ba...... d.
oh. you said pretentious.
- BonSeff0
haha!
you should turn those vinyl scraps into some torn heart stickers for our rides
:)
- mitsu0
>:(
- Bio0
HELL yea!
im on it!
- unknown0
chug - not sure what you mean...
people showing the love for other people's work they admire can't be all that bad can it?
even if the work isn't that great, it encourages that person to do more and get better at what they do - it's a positive thing, no?
there are some people here with no respect for that precious thing we call time - obvious by the frequency of their obsolete posts, but your gripe was more about patting each other on the back or sumthin...?
- lifeinsodium0
mayo, hun, what's this "different sort on here that seriously bug me" that you talk about?
chug, block me on MSN. Trust me you'll feel better. But you'll have to add me first. I'll feel better too if you found me a way to find out who all has me blocked.
- taragee0
i know i suck :P but i try
- unknown0
taragee, you certainly have sucking and swallowing on the mind today, what gives?
:P
not that that's a bad thing.
- corin0
I stopped looking at IDN because it is such a pat-on-the-back fest, i think this community needs a lot more constructive critics. On a positive note though, i went to semi-perm the other week, and that room was so colourful, everyone was weaaring brightly coloured clothes it was cool. Cliques have good and bad points, but i like the brightly coloured clothes thing, its cool.
- sauerbraten0
i still laugh my ass off at the MT stroking. definately the kool crowd..
- Redmond0
I'm pretentious but I don't play the hierarchy games or the little cliques thing.
- chug0
headache's gone, thanks everyone
maybe one day someone will pat me on the back ... but until then
party on wayne
- dsmith70
what about the feeling that you are the only one that can realize what good design is in your daily job?
does no one have a job where the art director or powers that be are stuck in an early design period like the 80's or 90's and can't decipher the good from the bad.
its elementary but you would think that seasoned professionals would no good design when they see it.
it can be very discouraging.
- Dustblower0
designers are the biggest ego trippers. Your art director can't get out of the early 90's because that would be a personal omission that he/or she can hack it anymore. they have "glacoma ego" and cant see because of it.
I will admit that I have the designer snob thing a bit, it is a defense. you cant be in the this business without a thick skin. But personal style is often mistaken for snobbery. If i say it sucks, thats my opinion, not the nessasarilly the guy next to me. Then again, if he agrees...well bro your fucked.
- cinder0
Problem is - whenever I 'critique' anything - a buncha nutswingers jump on and call me an asshole and demand that I post my 'real website'
I think a lot of people don't critique stuff because, frankly, they have no idea wtf they're talking about - no frame of reference to critique against.
It just basically becomes an opinion-forcing match.
Most of the people who know anything are too busy doin other shit to bother wasting time in a "forum" such as this.
Or they participate in REAL ones.
aka - dinner and drinks with other liked-minded educated individuals.
- neeko0
my critiquing skills arent all that great...
- ********0
i don't see anything wrong with patting each other on the back...design (i'm not a designer mind you) is largley an invisible art form anyway, at least to the general public. as for pretenciousness...well, EVERY proffesion has prentenciousness in it, so many people are insecure and boring and if they can't just let their work speak for themselves than fuck em they'll smarten up eventually
- Danski0
I have a friend who will say "eclectic visual diary" instead of "documentary." That really pisses me off for some reason. And if you mention it to him, he'll start getting even worse, talking about the "modern moral class divide". And then, you're in trouble. It's going to become an arty tantrum unless you fill him with drugs inside three minutes.
That's my exposure to pretense anyway. I had beer for lunch. It was good.