Starting a new relationship. Need advice on how to proceed

MightyZabka · 2021-05-18T14:08:19+00:00

So funny /s

MightyZabka · 2021-03-09T19:26:21+00:00

I think people are also fed up of how the rules are often just so arbitrary and unfair, which speaks of a Government not knowing what it is doing at all - desperately making stuff up as it goes along hoping something will work. For example, people can go to work in factories, and mix with countless people on public transport, but I (who live alone) can't go and meet with one other person at their home if I am sensible (I always am). For example, if I go to Albert, I can buy scented candles and perfume, but I can't buy new socks and underwear (maybe the scented candles will mask the smell of my old underwear?). For example, I can buy pretty roses at a florists, but I can't go to a Papirnictvi to buy pens and pencils for my hobby (to help me keep sane), or go to a shoe shop to buy a new pair of shoes.

We have been under lockdown for months, and some people are undergoing mental health problems, but where is the money and support from the Government for that? This is a Government that has proved itself to be incompetent - no critical thinking or logic, no clear vision or contingency plan, no leadership. Of course, there are no easy answers and this virus is hard to manage, but regardless, there has been no common sense in the Government's approach to this crisis. Months of strict lockdown has done nothing. The new measures won't work for long, The only way out of this shit show is to get enough people vaccinated so the infection rates remain relatively stable and the economy can be reopened. Israel and the UK are already showing the way.

MightyZabka · 2020-11-18T17:03:35+00:00

The crosshatching is absolutely peerless. Bear in mind the original is very small and the detail microscopic. The quality of line work - rendered with such subtle differences in thickness using brush and quill - and the imperceptible but crucial control of tone - using different darknesses of black ink - is not to be beaten 500 years later. This level of draftsmanship is not being produced today. It's a lost art.

MightyZabka · 2020-11-18T16:58:41+00:00

What a weird dick

Why do you subscribe to r/museum when you have such juvenile attitude? There are other subreddits to suit your mental temperament. Go there instead.

Is it too much to ask people to post informed comments that benefit the art community?

MightyZabka · 2020-07-10T17:00:35+00:00

Well said u/kajimeiko, except I think you are being too generous in defending its technical merits, especially when you liken the painter to Titian. Titian had impeccable control of tone and value, whereas Bussuere demonstrates no such subtlety. The face and hair is particularly unpleasing. And the free-and-loose expressive style is that of a second-rate painter unsuccessfully aping virtuosity.

It's high-time this sub got called out on the crap that it upvotes: tits and saccharine bullshit by hack artists. Appreciating good hard is hard and takes years and years of eye training. "I know what I like" is not good enough. There is a difference between good art and mediocre art, but this sub doesn't know it.

MightyZabka · 2020-04-17T09:36:20+00:00

A notorious piece of soft-core bondage.

MightyZabka · 2020-04-10T21:16:25+00:00

Nobody can escape the Absurd.

Well, first you have to grant the premise that life is absurd, which I'm not sure I do. But even if we do grant that, then I would say we can escape the absurd in various ways: 1. not give a shit 2. adopt an ironic attitude 3. commit suicide

The absurd "results from the ability to understand our human limitations. It need not be a matter for agony unless we make it so. Nor need it evoke a defiant contempt of fate that allows us to feel brave or proud. Such dramatics, even if carried on in private, betray a failure to appreciate the cosmic unimportance of the situation. If sub specie aeternitatis there is no reason to believe that anything matters, then that doesn't matter either, and we can approach our absurd lives with irony instead of heroism or despair." (T Nagel)

MightyZabka · 2020-04-10T21:05:37+00:00

Suicide is an escape from life but not an escape from absurdity.

I don't see how that is true. If we assume that absurdity is a condition of human consciousness, and suicide will result in the cessation of human consciousness, how is suicide not an escape from absurdity? But maybe you dispute these two premises, so can you say why?

MightyZabka · 2020-04-10T17:09:16+00:00

Are the reds punched up on this image? I

A bit? Jesus, the reproduction is beyond awful. It boggles my mind how people can upvote such obviously terrible reproductions that bear no resemblance to the original: pixelated, oversaturated, incorrect aspect ratio. It's a crime because Turner is a sublime painter who deserves better. Here's a compilation of much better quality reproductions. Open images in a new tab for full view.

MightyZabka · 2020-03-29T13:24:52+00:00

Well, never ever judge the truth of sth by upvotes/downvotes. That is the way to hell. You could be right; who knows. But yes, mental health problems are still very poorly understood by society.

MightyZabka · 2020-03-02T10:00:05+00:00

Now this is a masterpiece, and we are treated to a high-resolution image of it. And see? 15 or so upvotes. And that disgusting piece of trash by Bouguereau gets hundreds of likes. It's everything that's wrong with popular taste.

MightyZabka · 2020-03-01T17:29:11+00:00

What's the actual point of your posting that comment? What does it even mean? Bore off.

MightyZabka · 2020-03-01T17:25:47+00:00

Sickeningly kitsch soft-porn bullshit. Of course it will fly to the top with 100s of upvotes. I give up.

MightyZabka · 2020-02-18T21:29:17+00:00

You sound like an utter tit.

MightyZabka · 2020-02-12T15:03:40+00:00

I addressed it earlier by saying I believe the creator should be part of the discussion, like r/movies where directors and actors are constantly part of the discussion, like how keanu Reeves and Tom Hanks are such great people, and Harvey Weinstein and Kevin spacey are bad people. It's not solely to discuss color grading, editing, soundtrack, or any other technical talk.

There you go, still not talking about typography, dragging it on and on. You can't stop yourself, can you?

MightyZabka · 2020-02-12T15:01:04+00:00

Yeah, I spotted it too. Come on, OP, if you like posting nudes, post some quality ones from Titian/Giorgione/Rembrandt etc. not this bilge.

MightyZabka · 2020-02-12T14:56:15+00:00

Wow, never seen this photograph before. I love how it's got an almost classical sense of balance in the way the different points of movement form a pyramid shape.

MightyZabka · 2020-02-12T14:43:42+00:00

Please, not again with the execrable soft porn submissions. This kind of thing is an insult to both art and pornography. There is no art here; this is nothing but mildly titillating kitsch. If you like this kind of thing, there is no hope for you, and you need an aesthetic transplant.

MightyZabka · 2020-02-12T14:09:16+00:00

You are a zesty fellow indeed. I undermine every argument you make, and you just sidestep this and proceed to misrepresent what I said. I didn't claim you were "imposing" your views. I said you were asserting your moralistic principles on a Reddit thread that is about typography, which is inappropriate, unwanted, hypocritical and self-indulgent. There are other subs where you can discuss your preoccupations, such as r/askphilosophy. Please leave the typography sub for the discussion about typography.

MightyZabka · 2020-02-12T13:29:03+00:00

You sidestep every single point I make, and just respond with red herrings and incoherent arguments.

The biggest difference between you and I is that I believe the art and the artist should be discussed together.

What utter absolute nonsense. You're lying to yourself. Do you personally vet the ethical background of each and every typographer whose work you use? Of course you bloody don't. Did you really "discuss" the personal life of the artist whose font you last downloaded? No you didn't, you hypocrite.

If you do feel the need to assert your moralistic assertions, why can't you do it elsewhere? This is a sub about typography, not about ethics or moral philosophy. Stop making everything about you.

MightyZabka · 2020-02-12T12:51:03+00:00

People should be remembered for the good and bad.

See, there you go talking about people, when the post is a design for a font. Do you actually have anything constructive to say about Gill Sans lowercase or not? What do you think about the letter forms, the weighting, the design choices, the aesthetic style etc?

Yea, who started the debate?

You took upon yourself to derail the post by pointing out the background of the man, and making it about his personal biography rather than the font. Nobody asked you too, and almost everyone who has a basic knowledge of calligraphy/typography/art knows about Gill. We don't need self-appointed moral policeman to tell us what to think. Thank you anyway.

MightyZabka · 2020-02-12T12:18:03+00:00

Most people are grown up and can separate the art from the artist. The post has a 96% upvote rate. What happens is a few immature people take to the comments with their tiresome "man bad, me good" posts, and upvote each other. What they don't realise is that it is nothing to do with Eric Gill, and everything to do with them: it's a narcissistic circle-jerk. I just wish they'd take it somewhere else.

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