"Realistic vs Cartoony"

Heh, this is funny. He quotes massive parts of this entire conversation, but doesn't link to the thread where it happened.

I was "Jeremy". Like the author of this post, I was also frankly amazed to see somebody saying "I didn't think I need to do life drawing because I work cartoony"... but like he says, it was an incredibly polite discussion and I think it's just a case of a naive young artist who's learning new things for the first time.

Jeff

Link

"Do you guys have any haircut questions for us?"

These guys put up Lite Brites with cartoon characters on them to promote Aqua Teen Hunger Force, the devices have been up for two weeks in cities around the country, and in Boston people freak out and shut down the city. That's post-9/11 thinking for you.

Best quote:

Assistant Attorney General John Grossman called the light boards “bomb-like” devices and said that if they had been explosive they could have damaged transportation infrastructure in the city.

That is up there with this:

Saddam Hussein endured more than a decade of sanctions rather than give up a weapons of mass destruction program that turned out to be nonexistent. If sanctions weren't enough to make him surrender his imaginary weapons, I think we can safely say they wouldn't have been enough to make him surrender a prized, oil-rich conquest.

How on earth can it make any sense to discuss these things in HYPOTHETICAL TERMS? "IF" the devices were explosive, they would have caused problems. Saddam refused to give up his "imaginary" weapons. Sigh.

UPDATE: Greg Saunders references Scott McCloud in suggesting that it doesn't exactly take brains to recognize these figures are cartoon faces. Link

And Jesus' General gives a survey of the Free Republic's responses:

To: Howlin
Dry run.

To: Howlin
testing reaction times

To: Howlin
It looks like there is all kinds of testing, testing, testing going on.

To: Howlin
How could they find so many hoax bombs so quickly? That says a lot about the alert level of the passers by. Or were there also threats phoned in?

To: Howlin
Welcome to John Kerry's America

To: Howlin
Hate to see this happen, but could it be the libs are reaping what they sowed?

Jeff