[Edit: Whoops-- I went to add another post and hit "edit" instead, obliterating the contents of my previous message. Here it is again, followed by the stuff that accidentally displaced it. I'm fixing this so someone's reply to my message will make proper sense]
noun wrote:This comment does sound snide. One hand, it sounds like a left-handed compliment, like you didn't expect Hell's Taco to pull it off. But given the context and past inputs from you on this topic, the rest of the message is clear: "And great job working maturely with the constructive criticism unlike SOME PEOPLE I COULD NAME").
My context for the remark is five-hundred years of stereotypes, lore, and legend about whether artists receive and digest criticism well. Those stereotypes are so deeply entrenched -- and so often reinforced by concrete misbehavior -- that I always find it worthwhile to point out when someone works hard and plays nicely on art-stuff. If you'd like to add this context to your own, have a look at Rudolf and Margot Wittkower's
Born Under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists.
noun wrote:I honestly can't tell if you're intending to pick a fight or if you're just so pompous that everything you write sounds like a barely-veiled insult, but that's what I'm seeing.
Are those my only choices? How charitable of you.
Nearly everything I write is simply straightforward commentary on the topic at hand; some are sensitive to my politics, my beliefs, my word choice, or whatever, and I have no control over those prejudices.
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On the verticality and tilt of the logo: I like 'em, and here's why.
- First: Because the forum is basically an elaborate grid, anything that goes against the grain of that rigorous, linear format without disrupting it earns coolness points.
- Second: Although any browser-slice of the forum is likely to show up on screen as a rectangle, most pages scroll downward quite a ways. The logo doesn't match the single-slice format, but it does match the downward flow.
- Third: The upward/downward flow of the graphic is broadly Octopus-like.
- Fourth: the suckers are adorable, while the eye and grippiness of the tentacles is creepy; that's a nice balance.
- Fifth, the depth illusion is quirky and funny, and looks especially good on the black background. Again, it plays against the dull rigor of the forum view.
