R O B O T P A C I F I E R

THINKING ABOUT ___

something has to change/
undeniable dilemma

posted by rp @ 7:10 PM 6 Comments

COMMENTING ON ART

First, let me say that I appreciate everyone's comments on my latest pieces. I especially would like to thank Theresa for her constant support and interest in my work, whether it's the cartoon, digital pieces, or paintings. Yes, I want to know what you think and what you feel about my work. Personally, I don't believe art exists in a void, I think art needs an audience...which brings me to my second point....

When you post a comment or interpretation of a piece, I'm just going to say thanks or something to that effect. The reason being that I don't want take away from how someone interprets the work. I don't want there to be a sense of right or wrong about what it means to the viewer. But rest assured, I don't do this as some sort of joke, or that I'm mocking what someone thinks because it's secretly all meaningless. Sometimes, I'm inspired, I just lay down the elements, and a meaning becomes apparent at the end. Other times, I may just think something looks cool and that's it. Although I do several pieces that have a specific theme or intentional meaning, it's rare. These pieces, for whatever reason, don't resonate with people, it's like thinking about it too much kills it.

I like having elements that people recognize as it helps communicate something and it gives the viewer a starting point, a reference to begin with, lately women and robots. I also like incorporating more abstract or design-like elements such as the "geometry" (credit goes to IL DR for coining this term). So the elements are intentional but their relation to each other is up to the interpretation of the viewer.

As time passes, the meanings change for me as well. There's no static definition.

posted by rp @ 4:10 PM 1 Comments

FREEDOM FROM CHOICE

another not work safe piece. something about the tone of borromakot's blog lately helped inspire this, well, my interpretation anyway....
plus this...
"...freedom of choice is what you got/ freedom from choice is what you want.."

posted by rp @ 7:34 PM 11 Comments

WELCOME, IDR

welcome to the addiction, il dr. it's only a dollar and you can have it right now.

posted by rp @ 9:16 PM 0 Comments

NEW PIECE

partial nudity in this one. not bad or explicit but probably not work-safe.

posted by rp @ 6:14 PM 6 Comments

re:mentos + diet pepsi post

Anonymous said...
I'm tired of the "Click to run ActiveX" pop up I get whenever I hit your site. It has to do with your Food Combustion post. Just thought you should know.

Aw, poor baby, you're tired, waaah, it's awful. What am I to derive from this comment? That I should fix it? What's with the passive bullshit? My step-"family" does this all the time, perhaps you're one of them.

I replaced the vid with a link. If you want to know why Active-X is tiring your poor anonymous-ass out, all you have to do is...figure it out yourself. Fuck you very much.

posted by rp @ 2:56 PM 4 Comments

POUR A FORTY FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS

article here
excerpt:
NEW YORK - Headline by headline, a trickle of news leaks on
Iraq and the antiterror campaign has grown into a steady stream of revelations, and from Pennsylvania Avenue to Downing Street, Copenhagen to Canberra, governments are responding with pressure and prosecutions.
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The latest target is The New York Times. But the unfolding story begins as far back as 2003, when British weapons expert David Kelly was "outed" as the source of a story casting doubt on his government's arguments for invading Iraq, and he committed suicide.

And it will roll on this fall, when Danish journalists face trial for reporting their government knew there was no evidence of banned weapons in Iraq.

In London's Central Criminal Court, too, accused leakers will be in the dock this fall, for allegedly disclosing
President Bush talked of bombing al-Jazeera, the Arab television station. The British government threatens to prosecute newspapers that write any more about that leaked document.

Media advocates are alarmed at what they see as a mounting assault on press freedom in country after country, arguing it is potentially chilling the pursuit of truth as U.S. and European leaders pursue wars on terror and in Iraq.

"It's grotesque that at a time when political rhetoric is full of notions of democracy and liberty that we should have this fundamental right of journalists to investigate and report on public interest matters called into question," Aidan White, general-secretary of the Belgium-based International Federation of Journalists, told The Associated Press.

posted by rp @ 10:05 PM 1 Comments