Comments on: To Post, Or Not To Post http://toonstoonstoons.net/2009/06/to-post-or-not-to-post/ and why shouldn't they? Sat, 08 Jan 2011 04:25:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: slatz http://toonstoonstoons.net/2009/06/to-post-or-not-to-post/comment-page-1/#comment-95 slatz Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:58:52 +0000 http://toonstoonstoons.net/?p=316#comment-95 The question is: "If it had been **YOU** under the bus -- would the sparrow have published?" The question is: “If it had been **YOU** under the bus — would the sparrow have published?”

]]> By: Ruby http://toonstoonstoons.net/2009/06/to-post-or-not-to-post/comment-page-1/#comment-94 Ruby Thu, 11 Jun 2009 16:41:30 +0000 http://toonstoonstoons.net/?p=316#comment-94 Post.... yes.... Post…. yes….

]]> By: Karen http://toonstoonstoons.net/2009/06/to-post-or-not-to-post/comment-page-1/#comment-87 Karen Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:06:17 +0000 http://toonstoonstoons.net/?p=316#comment-87 Does the artist always know what he or she will evoke in the viewer? That part can't be controlled and you wouldn't even want to try. The transformation process is never painless but it is something that once completed most are grateful for. Unless you are deliberately setting out to wound and destroy, which you clearly aren't here, I don't see any problem. I'm thinking now of things like "Piss Christ" which was a crucifix set in an aquarium full of urine or the tin can in which somebody took a crap and sealed. What about some of the more arcane Mapplethorpe? Even though I may be offended at one level, at another I'm stimulated to think in a different way and at the end of the day I'm free to think the stuff is crap and walk away. My call. Does the artist always know what he or she will evoke in the viewer? That part can’t be controlled and you wouldn’t even want to try. The transformation process is never painless but it is something that once completed most are grateful for. Unless you are deliberately setting out to wound and destroy, which you clearly aren’t here, I don’t see any problem. I’m thinking now of things like “Piss Christ” which was a crucifix set in an aquarium full of urine or the tin can in which somebody took a crap and sealed. What about some of the more arcane Mapplethorpe? Even though I may be offended at one level, at another I’m stimulated to think in a different way and at the end of the day I’m free to think the stuff is crap and walk away. My call.

]]> By: limin http://toonstoonstoons.net/2009/06/to-post-or-not-to-post/comment-page-1/#comment-86 limin Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:31:46 +0000 http://toonstoonstoons.net/?p=316#comment-86 hello rev, i agree with bridget and a few others,too. let your true self out. what an artist supposed to do?, let everything out and then let us judge what's dark what's light and what's good or bad for us!! art is not just entertainment, if goya hesitated with his dark etchings and kept that to himself, then the whole world would lost the genius of his dark-struggle and his need to express the ugly and outrageous part of life-struggle and oppression. hello rev,
i agree with bridget and a few others,too. let your true self out. what an artist supposed to do?, let everything out and then let us judge what’s dark what’s light and what’s good or bad for us!! art is not just entertainment, if goya hesitated with his dark etchings and kept that to himself, then the whole world would lost the genius of his dark-struggle and his need to express the ugly and outrageous part of life-struggle and oppression.

]]> By: cuz http://toonstoonstoons.net/2009/06/to-post-or-not-to-post/comment-page-1/#comment-85 cuz Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:19:32 +0000 http://toonstoonstoons.net/?p=316#comment-85 We are your audience but that does not permanently obligate you to be our performer.. show what you feel like and keep the rest unpublished. Does self-awareness coexist with self-consciousness? We are your audience but that does not permanently obligate you to be our performer.. show what you feel like and keep the rest unpublished. Does self-awareness coexist with self-consciousness?

]]> By: Bridget http://toonstoonstoons.net/2009/06/to-post-or-not-to-post/comment-page-1/#comment-84 Bridget Thu, 11 Jun 2009 02:13:59 +0000 http://toonstoonstoons.net/?p=316#comment-84 Well, now that you've told us it exists, you simply have to break the suspense and share. That, and I think if all life was giggles and kittens, we would seriously be missing out on the richness of experience... Well, now that you’ve told us it exists, you simply have to break the suspense and share. That, and I think if all life was giggles and kittens, we would seriously be missing out on the richness of experience…

]]> By: Horace Gaims http://toonstoonstoons.net/2009/06/to-post-or-not-to-post/comment-page-1/#comment-83 Horace Gaims Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:10:49 +0000 http://toonstoonstoons.net/?p=316#comment-83 I quite agree with the above posted comments. I quite agree with the above posted comments.

]]> By: June http://toonstoonstoons.net/2009/06/to-post-or-not-to-post/comment-page-1/#comment-82 June Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:39:25 +0000 http://toonstoonstoons.net/?p=316#comment-82 Do I detect a conscience mixed with a touch of vanity? You want to post it so do - but understand that it may not stimulate any sort of balm for others - we have to create that for ourselves. It could however impress in other ways Just do it! (That would be more like "vanity with a touch of conscience". -Ed.) Do I detect a conscience mixed with a touch of vanity? You want to post it so do – but understand that it may not stimulate any sort of balm for others – we have to create that for ourselves. It could however impress in other ways

Just do it!

(That would be more like “vanity with a touch of conscience”. -Ed.)

]]> By: Lucky http://toonstoonstoons.net/2009/06/to-post-or-not-to-post/comment-page-1/#comment-81 Lucky Thu, 11 Jun 2009 00:34:59 +0000 http://toonstoonstoons.net/?p=316#comment-81 I think cartoons are like any other art form; the best stuff comes from the heart and soul of the artist. What the audience may take from it is of little consequence. Be true to yourself. I think cartoons are like any other art form; the best stuff comes from the heart and soul of the artist. What the audience may take from it is of little consequence. Be true to yourself.

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