• misterdoctor@lemmy.world
    1001·
    1 year ago

    Thought I was having one of those Bearenstein Bears moments but there is another dog version of this

  • Dale@lemmy.worldEnglish
    874·
    1 year ago

    Maybe unpopular opinion but the winner is objectively better art than second place. Left makes me feel whimsy and mild joy, and right just makes me think “frog.”

    • JayDee@lemmy.sdf.org
      513·
      1 year ago

      Very clearly a toad. Points deducted.

      Edit: so apparently all toads are frogs, but not only that, this is a tomato frog and not a toad at all. My whole life is a lie and shit like this is why I have trust issues.

    • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Yep. Some people think skill is art. They don’t understand art. Skill is great, but art is something that makes you think or feel. The amount of skill involved doesn’t matter, except as something you think or feel, which can also mean less skill is as valuable as more skill.

      • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
        4·
        1 year ago

        I’d argue art is a communication medium. You can communicate minimally, or you can communicate with vast detail, both require skill.

        Art museums are full of work that says nothing, but passed a few gatekeepers with clout keys or shock value.

        Skilled rendering with nothing to say is as unimpressive as deep ideas communicated by random spatter. The viewer isn’t getting anything from it, no matter how trendy their turtleneck is.

        I take a bit of issue with this idea that “the amount of skill involved doesn’t matter”, because that’s the exact logic used to say artists shouldn’t be able to afford a living, or could be replaced by algorithms.

        (And yet we easily spot and mock visually exciting Ai renderings for how soulless and empty they are.)

        Yes, we’ve seen impressive high-skill ultra-real pencil renderings that, in the end could sadly be replaced by a photograph, because there was no interpretation involved.

        And we’ve seen awards presented for sticking bananas on walls as a “critique of modern society.”

        Art is a skill. It’s a hard skill, because it’s not a solitary pursuit solely anchored in visual perfection. If nobody can understand or appreciate your point, it falls apart.

  • GooberEar@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    57·
    1 year ago

    In the third grade, I won the science fair.

    The competition was pretty strong. There was a kid who built a contraption to simulate a mini-tornado. Granted, it was probably his dad who built the thing, but still. There was another kid that built and programmed a robotics project. Again, probably his parents did a lot of the work, but the guy was super smart so I’m sure he did some of that work. One girl came up with an experiment to use fungus to grow plastics or something like that, I don’t remember. It’s been decades.

    Me? The afternoon before the fair I had literally nothing. I grew up poor, we had a lot of junk laying around the house because my parents would go to the county dump site, dig through the trash, and bring home anything they thought was valuable or fixable. I managed to hobble together one of the light sensors from a broken night light to the electronics from a toy radio so that it only played when the lights were off. I stuffed that into a cardboard “robot”. And the people judging the science fair loved it.

    So fuck you Stephanie Petty, Chris McDonald, and Dequan Shaw and your rich ass parents and your entitled ass selves. I won bitches.

  • SuiXi3D@fedia.io
    511·
    1 year ago

    A day early. It’s not yet Wednesday, my dudes.

    EDIT: Is now Wednesday.

  • zaphod@sopuli.xyz
    27·
    1 year ago

    Obviously the one on the left is a froggo, the one on the right is a frog and should have been banned from the contest.

    • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      and practice and color and detail and gradients and effort and lighting and a hashtag and…

  • Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    155·
    1 year ago

    It’s going to be fun for future generations see this and notice who won the presidency twice…and who are the influencers.

    I think the current generation are going to be hated way more than boomers when it comes to who fucked the world up the worst. There are so many receipts.

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 year ago

      It’s kinda early to make that call for the younger generations, don’t you think? Imagine if the legacy of Boomers was tied to what they did in their youth. We’d know them as little more than peace-talking hippies (on one end), to consumerist yuppies (on the other end.) In the decades since their 20s, Boomers have solidified a very different self image. Now, nearing the end of their influence (at least, I fucking hope so), their legacy is basically sealed.

      In turn, the current generation of youngin’s still has many, many years to make a name for themselves. We have to wait and see until the kids even younger than them grow up, because as the people who will be around longer than the rest of us, they will be the ones choosing what the rest of our legacies are.

  • ThatGuy46475@lemmy.world
    23·
    1 year ago

    And teachers encourage this having students vote on the winner even when objective criteria is available