Just a word of encouragement from the peanut gallery: Man, that's frustrating. But just to let you know, when I lack inspiration for art, your site is the first one I fire up. Just keep making the amazing, original and awe-inspiring art that you do. Other fucktards notwithstanding.
Miss ya! If ever you're in New Haven over the next year, give me a shout!
Will be, in 2 months! (Or am now. But will be seriously out there with resumes once I finish this project!)
I really want to go to anonycon, but I think it's just about/the same day as my grad/roadtrip down to CA...that's a no for this year, and a I-really-frigging-hope-so! for next year. That might be the soonest I can get back to the east coast, though. Unless you'll be in CA? :D :D
I think that user icon of pounding a carillon with your fists is the perfect accompaniment to our mutual disgust. Yeah. People suck. Just had to vent on LJ, because otherwise, I tend to tell them in RL.
I hear ya. Not an art pro, but it's still particularly frustrating when such people get respect while you're slogging away doing you own work and being ignored.
Definitely there's crappy work in every field. My boss has given us a bunch of the papers he gets to review lately, and I think he only gives us the awful ones, so we learn to be cynical about science. In the not-picking-on-9-year-olds category, there was the abysmal paper trying to reassert a completely implausible result published 15 years ago and demolished in two subsequent papers from other labs. That one came from a Chinese university where according to our postdoc they're paid by quantity of publications, regardless of quality (a horrifying system, really). In the you-should-know-better category, the paper from an established prof who, in response to the objection that he had no proof of his claims, responded that he has 30 years' experience in the field! And then there was a Caltech Nobel laureate who with the really optimistic interpretation of minimal data... the list goes on. Anyway, sympathy!
Ooo, good counter-point: cheating/shoddy work comes from external pressures, still, even at the professional level. Or shall we say, "at the practicing level", since being paid for work I guess don't mean it's actually worth top-tier notice. :( Anyway, ouch on the cynical about science end-- you don't get shiny, inspiring papers to poke through?
well, not to review. I think we're just supposed to read them. Actually, in theory we talk about cool stuff from the lit in group meeting sometimes, but that hasn't happened in a while, and even when it did, it was often not presented in an inspirational kind of way. So... yeah, feeling kind of cynical, but not badly so.
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Just a word of encouragement from the peanut gallery: Man, that's frustrating. But just to let you know, when I lack inspiration for art, your site is the first one I fire up. Just keep making the amazing, original and awe-inspiring art that you do. Other fucktards notwithstanding.
Miss ya! If ever you're in New Haven over the next year, give me a shout!
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When might we get to visit and catch up?
Want to come to AnonyCon?
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I really want to go to anonycon, but I think it's just about/the same day as my grad/roadtrip down to CA...that's a no for this year, and a I-really-frigging-hope-so! for next year. That might be the soonest I can get back to the east coast, though. Unless you'll be in CA? :D :D
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KILL BURN SMASH GARRRRRR
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