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Chew that "bramble" thoroughly...
Had an idea for a series dealing with the (somewhat real) upcomming apocalypse(s). Well, perhaps apocalypse isn't precise enought. Apocatastasis maybe? After all, it's temporary - humans would go extinct and in a few hundreds of thousands of years nature would recover fully. The naughty mizanthropic part of me smiles sinisterly, telling me it's worth living 20-30 years more just to see the spectacle of billions people dieing from the problems they've created and purposefully ignored in favour of short term "shinies". (Save up some popcorn for the occasion.)
This one's famine, other themes would be drought, CO2 and air pollution, climate tipping points, species extinctions, failing ecological networks, weather anomalies, flood, ocean stagnation, forest fires, plastic/junk and water/soil polution, drug-resistant sicknesses (now also found in the wild; way to go, humans).
Also... am I the only one having trouble motivating myself to draw anything that isn't furry? I look at all of my works and I realise I have nothing to put into my portfolio - all of them are silly anthropomorphic crap... (The others being just plain crap.)
Had an idea for a series dealing with the (somewhat real) upcomming apocalypse(s). Well, perhaps apocalypse isn't precise enought. Apocatastasis maybe? After all, it's temporary - humans would go extinct and in a few hundreds of thousands of years nature would recover fully. The naughty mizanthropic part of me smiles sinisterly, telling me it's worth living 20-30 years more just to see the spectacle of billions people dieing from the problems they've created and purposefully ignored in favour of short term "shinies". (Save up some popcorn for the occasion.)
This one's famine, other themes would be drought, CO2 and air pollution, climate tipping points, species extinctions, failing ecological networks, weather anomalies, flood, ocean stagnation, forest fires, plastic/junk and water/soil polution, drug-resistant sicknesses (now also found in the wild; way to go, humans).
Also... am I the only one having trouble motivating myself to draw anything that isn't furry? I look at all of my works and I realise I have nothing to put into my portfolio - all of them are silly anthropomorphic crap... (The others being just plain crap.)
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And are either of you doing anything about it, or just sitting on your asses watching it happen? Seriously, if you aren't trying to make a change you have no right to complain.
/incredibly sick of pointless, wasteful, unproductive cynicism
Sorry to spoil your page with teh h8, deerman. It is good to see updates from you :) And wasn't part of your project itself all about how cynicism is just another breed of denial? That was at least one thing I pulled out of the .pdf you sent.
/incredibly sick of pointless, wasteful, unproductive cynicism
Sorry to spoil your page with teh h8, deerman. It is good to see updates from you :) And wasn't part of your project itself all about how cynicism is just another breed of denial? That was at least one thing I pulled out of the .pdf you sent.
This... wasn't cynism... This was honest.
Every day I see things that sicken me. I've lost hope, I don't see how people could live a worthy existence, end wars, solve problems, not treat each other like shit and build a positive future... A whole culture and existence built on lies, deceit and manipulations - politics of a small-group mammal trying to live in a global civilization. I don't see an end to that. It's pointless. Humans aren't worth saving. Is prolonging suffering a good thing? I have hate of my own. Have you read Oryx and Crake? That book is scary for a reason - I understand those sentiments, If i could, I'd do the same.
I'm just making pictures. If they lead to people disagreeing with me, lynching me and then doing something positive, that counts as doing something.
Every day I see things that sicken me. I've lost hope, I don't see how people could live a worthy existence, end wars, solve problems, not treat each other like shit and build a positive future... A whole culture and existence built on lies, deceit and manipulations - politics of a small-group mammal trying to live in a global civilization. I don't see an end to that. It's pointless. Humans aren't worth saving. Is prolonging suffering a good thing? I have hate of my own. Have you read Oryx and Crake? That book is scary for a reason - I understand those sentiments, If i could, I'd do the same.
I'm just making pictures. If they lead to people disagreeing with me, lynching me and then doing something positive, that counts as doing something.
Dude, there is too many idiots out there, it is too late to make a change. I understand those who put effort in changing, but the fact is; We all humans are going to die someday, what are the odds that we are still alive in 1 million years if we are already getting problems with the amount of stupid people around here, right now.
Just accept it.
Just accept it.
Attitudes like that really don't even deserve a response, but hell, it's been awhile since I've gotten passionate about a subject -
Soft genes like that ("well, gonna die anyway, might as well put absolutely no effort into trying to make the world better") are exactly what I look forward to getting killed off. Because those who are so complacent in it are the ones who are going to go. So, good riddance.
Me? I'd like to try and de-fuck what my grandparents did, at least to some extent, before I kick the can.
Soft genes like that ("well, gonna die anyway, might as well put absolutely no effort into trying to make the world better") are exactly what I look forward to getting killed off. Because those who are so complacent in it are the ones who are going to go. So, good riddance.
Me? I'd like to try and de-fuck what my grandparents did, at least to some extent, before I kick the can.
Yay traggy art! I grow concerned at any considerable absence from you..considering...past occurnces heh.
Ocean stagnation...mmm I can't wait for that one. Your depiction of if that is. On second thought, I'm extremely curious as to what exactly will happen if the ocean currents just...stop. I'm sure it'd have effects we couldn't possibly imagine. And there is only one way to find out...
Ocean stagnation...mmm I can't wait for that one. Your depiction of if that is. On second thought, I'm extremely curious as to what exactly will happen if the ocean currents just...stop. I'm sure it'd have effects we couldn't possibly imagine. And there is only one way to find out...
Likely it had happened once... And it wasn't pretty:
"Kump, Pavlov and Arthur (2005) have proposed that during the Permian-Triassic extinction event the warming also upset the oceanic balance between photosynthesising plankton and deep-water sulfate-reducing bacteria, causing massive emissions of hydrogen sulfide which poisoned life on both land and sea and severely weakened the ozone layer, exposing much of the life that still remained to fatal levels of UV radiation."
Yes. That's very Deep shit indeed...
"Kump, Pavlov and Arthur (2005) have proposed that during the Permian-Triassic extinction event the warming also upset the oceanic balance between photosynthesising plankton and deep-water sulfate-reducing bacteria, causing massive emissions of hydrogen sulfide which poisoned life on both land and sea and severely weakened the ozone layer, exposing much of the life that still remained to fatal levels of UV radiation."
Yes. That's very Deep shit indeed...
I'm conflicted about how I feel about humanity. There is so much bad, but I can't see every person as corrupt and terrible. I dunno...life is confusing me more and more.
I'm relieved you're still posting :] I really admire how you draw emaciated bodies, and I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of these apocalyptic beasts.
I'm relieved you're still posting :] I really admire how you draw emaciated bodies, and I'm looking forward to seeing the rest of these apocalyptic beasts.
Aka: Darfur.
Sad it is... very.
Now imagine what happens when the Himalayan glaciers melt. They feed the large rivers that craploads of people depend on, among them two countries with very large populations: Pakistan and India. They aren't very friendly already. And both are nuclear states. Pretty much a recipe for disaster, imho.
Sad it is... very.
Now imagine what happens when the Himalayan glaciers melt. They feed the large rivers that craploads of people depend on, among them two countries with very large populations: Pakistan and India. They aren't very friendly already. And both are nuclear states. Pretty much a recipe for disaster, imho.
Floating island of man made garbage in the Pacific, and general day to day ignorance and malevolence. We as a whole, need to be annihilated. There are good people to be found for sure, but on the whole... How well would they be if more than half of the population were terminated in an instant. The overwhelming depression that would surely have to follow a calamity of that proportion would drive them mad. Better to all go at once. We have created the means, I do look forward to seeing the rest of your pieces before it happens though as I have always enjoyed your work.
"I, for my own part, cannot think that these latter days of weak experiment, fragmentary theory, and mutual discord are indeed man's culminating time! I say, for my own part. He, I know -- for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made -- thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of civilization only a foolish heaping that must inevitably fall back upon and destroy its makers in the end. If that is so, it remains for us to live as though it were not so."
-- H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1898)
And for my own part, I never expected our world to survive the past few decades without an ecocidal nuclear holocaust. I'm astounded that we've managed to avoid this fate as long as we have, and in some vague way, that survival has given me a flickering hope that we might just muddle through the various catastrophes that loom ahead of us. Not a certainty, but at least a hope.
Yet all the same... we have a lot of work ahead of us.
"If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon."
-- Gordon Lightfoot, "Race Among the Ruins" (1976)
-- H. G. Wells, The Time Machine (1898)
And for my own part, I never expected our world to survive the past few decades without an ecocidal nuclear holocaust. I'm astounded that we've managed to avoid this fate as long as we have, and in some vague way, that survival has given me a flickering hope that we might just muddle through the various catastrophes that loom ahead of us. Not a certainty, but at least a hope.
Yet all the same... we have a lot of work ahead of us.
"If you plan to face tomorrow, do it soon."
-- Gordon Lightfoot, "Race Among the Ruins" (1976)
>>Also... am I the only one having trouble motivating myself to draw anything that isn't furry? I look at all of my works and I realise I have nothing to put into my portfolio
Given your drawing skill, and the conviction of your themes, I doubt that you'll have to be concerned about having your work labelled "furry." Once you have reached a certain level of craftsmanship, the term no longer applies. ;)
Mark
Given your drawing skill, and the conviction of your themes, I doubt that you'll have to be concerned about having your work labelled "furry." Once you have reached a certain level of craftsmanship, the term no longer applies. ;)
Mark
So being bad is part of being furry? :) Ah, I see...
I'm not sure everyone shares this view, though - I'm being ridiculed on a regular basis about what I draw, so I happened to just quit showing my works to anyone and avoid anything having to do with animal(s) in any kind of assignements or work, and to me that happens to be hard to do. =/
Thanks for the quotes, btw. They're enlightening.
And I think i've heard separate parts of the symphony, but not the whole in its entirety. The parts I did hear I've found captivating - Mahler has something unique about him. I should try and get the entire thing somehow. But good quality orchestral records are hard to find.
I'm not sure everyone shares this view, though - I'm being ridiculed on a regular basis about what I draw, so I happened to just quit showing my works to anyone and avoid anything having to do with animal(s) in any kind of assignements or work, and to me that happens to be hard to do. =/
Thanks for the quotes, btw. They're enlightening.
And I think i've heard separate parts of the symphony, but not the whole in its entirety. The parts I did hear I've found captivating - Mahler has something unique about him. I should try and get the entire thing somehow. But good quality orchestral records are hard to find.
But if you can find it, I'd recommend Otto Klemperer conducting the Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra on EMI, with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: my favourite version, and a critical hit for decades now.
>>So being bad is part of being furry? :)
There are times when I have to wonder.
But perhaps it might be more fair to say that furry is painfully limited: once you go far enough, the fans will begin to ignore you. :)
>>Thanks for the quotes, btw. They're enlightening.
And Lightfoot provides the mandatory Canadian content. Gotta be done!
>>So being bad is part of being furry? :)
There are times when I have to wonder.
But perhaps it might be more fair to say that furry is painfully limited: once you go far enough, the fans will begin to ignore you. :)
>>Thanks for the quotes, btw. They're enlightening.
And Lightfoot provides the mandatory Canadian content. Gotta be done!
>>I never appreciate good music until I've heard it several times,
I had to listen to Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde several times over several years before it really hit me -- and then it hit me hard. Haitink and the Royal Concertgebouw on Philips made it sound like music firmly and undeniably for the 20th Century, and I fell in love with that recording... but Klemperer and the New Philharmonia on EMI made it sound like music from another planet, and that recording went straight to my spine: for about a month I listened to it every day, and every listening brought something new.
As for the Mahler 2nd --
>>I will not get to hear it the first time performed live.
My girlfriend insisted (gently!) on a five-hour trip to Toronto to hear it performed live, and that was truly impressive, I'll admit. But I'll still take the Klemperer on EMI over any live performance.
I had to listen to Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde several times over several years before it really hit me -- and then it hit me hard. Haitink and the Royal Concertgebouw on Philips made it sound like music firmly and undeniably for the 20th Century, and I fell in love with that recording... but Klemperer and the New Philharmonia on EMI made it sound like music from another planet, and that recording went straight to my spine: for about a month I listened to it every day, and every listening brought something new.
As for the Mahler 2nd --
>>I will not get to hear it the first time performed live.
My girlfriend insisted (gently!) on a five-hour trip to Toronto to hear it performed live, and that was truly impressive, I'll admit. But I'll still take the Klemperer on EMI over any live performance.
Gorgeous idea! And I love the technique you've taken here. Your style in your inkwork translates so powerfully when color is used, it's pretty amazing.
And your idea makes me giggle and giddy. There will be quite a few of us watching with some twisted little inner voice laughing when it all comes down. It'll be quite a spectacle to see the effects of human existence come around full circle and to view in just what manner the earth will throw itself back into balance. I'm just sad that I won't get to see what new growth and life will eventually spawn from the ashes. Our planet is an amazing thing.
And your idea makes me giggle and giddy. There will be quite a few of us watching with some twisted little inner voice laughing when it all comes down. It'll be quite a spectacle to see the effects of human existence come around full circle and to view in just what manner the earth will throw itself back into balance. I'm just sad that I won't get to see what new growth and life will eventually spawn from the ashes. Our planet is an amazing thing.
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