I just recieved this comment about my previous story, and I wanted to respond to it, in part because I don't ever want my name colluding with censorship--of any kind, anywhere, ever--and because it's and honest question:
I agree that this art is a bit racially biased, but since when should artists censor themselves in order to be PC? It's how the guy feels.Posted by: gravyboat at May 15, 2008 04:53 AM
Where did I say he should censor himself?
I said he's an ignorant idiot. I don't think that's arguable, and because he's an idiot, I'm not certain I'd label this art as good. This dude literally went, "I don't get the complexities of human interaction, and I grew up poor--which I'm totally bitter about--so I'll just draw a lazy black man as a chicken," and Silverlake went, "We're stupid, conformist hipsters, and we like whatever's countercultural--even though we end up being derivative 99 percent of the time--and because they're "street," we totally love these chubby Hasidic chickens that aren't particularly well-rendered."
Which brings me to the technical. When the concept is so lacking in intelligence, the technical becomes the show, and this is technically crap.
It's all sooooooooooo lame. In fact, it's probably perfect hipster art.
Posted by The Bunny at 12:14 AM