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The Calculator has set an eye on IF partipants and spotted the following:
Loontown´s Creator fumbled and twimbled a lot about how the IF list would become more manageable to regain the feeling of community. To lay a basis she could continue her brain exercises on, she placed an order to the Loontown Evaluation Center (LEC) to check the statistics of IF participants.
That´s what the pesky little man came up with.
To have a closer look at the excel sheets click here.
A preliminary conclusion: The one genius solution would be to ban all digitally produced illustrations. Get hands dirty again!
What would be your solutionary approach?
PS: Don´t ask for the logics of it. They changed daily.
PSS: Who would have known 20 people actually posted photographs?
PSSS: Trisha has a new weekly photopshop challenge!
20 Kommentare:
This is a really cool mix media collage piece!!
Very funny! IF has indeed grown to Monster proportions - in fact Monster was the topic which broke the 1000 barrier...My solution is NOT to chop both hands off and urge all fellow creatives to do the same, to make art physically more demanding. No, indeed - far too drastic. Nor is the solution to choose a tricky specific subject like "Anteaters berating Victorian philosophers in a swamp" or "Spinach goes walkabout". I dunno what to suggest really!
Great job! Perhaps the answer is to have categories to submit work under - either by style or media...it is getting quite difficult to look at them all.
Once again...you combine your artistic wit with social commentary, finally turning your eye on the IF situation. It really has become huge, and I often feel overwhelmed trying to look at submissions. I try to find the names of folks I "know," but I often just miss them completely. Penelope did collect donations a while ago for an upgrade of the site to perhaps include thumbnails of the entries. That would at least make it easier for people to take a look at the pieces that were of interest to them. I dunno...
HAHAHA - I hear you! The numbers are seriously overwhelming. I'm so amused by your spread sheets, I can't believe there are so many photo's.
The upgrade/improvement discussions are still happening on the IF forums. I check from time to time, but much like a big meeting, the ideas seems to be spiralling around and around in circles. Perhaps your ingenius spread sheets will help.
Oh...too funny!
I used to look at everyones but it's just too much now.
I try to scan for people I recognize but still it's so hard.
it's a bummer!
I've done some yodelling up a tree to see if that solves anything. I don't even understand why 'T' and 'Y' are next to each other on my keypad, it's just a disaster waiting to happen! Your calculations are interesting and I think Aunti Beetle should be elected to sort things out.
Sorry, I meant Auntie 'Helen.' I should have recognized her.
Thank you Alina, I counted it under "Cartoon" though ;)
Johnnynorms, ha! I just recently suggested to have a once a month extra challenge for quotes as topics. And I still like that idea! (There you go ;)) Imagine what one could come up with for "Victorian philosopher goes spinach"! Finally the Victorian philosophers would be researched again, I mean, who could even name one singel one off-hand? I agree about the chopping off hands, I mean, I would be so excluded, wouldn´t I?
Jules, I was thinking about categories, too, but I found it very difficult to categorize the drawings, really. Most ended up in the "digital illustration" field :) Its really too hard now to look at them all. But that used to be so much fun, it was a journey of discoveries. I feel already desillusioned seeing that its not even Friday night (afternoon on your part of the world) and there are 100 entries. ... Duh, but it was nice finding your blog in this process :)
Carla, perhaps if my art skills could be developed further I might not need the social commentary ;) - but actually I guess I am almost more interested in that aspect. I know, I look out for names I recognize and remember - or I simply check my blogroll (which reminds me I have to put you on it!) As I said on the art forum: my fear is that the thumbnails will take a lot of space and won´t fit on a single page, so we have to have a list that goes over more pages, which I think would be rather sad and probably not that workable either. But I let myself be happily surprised.
Flossy, that was quite a job! :) And one discovers many funny funny things. I also read every word the participant wrote to his/her entry to check whether the illo is old or new: I think I have to admit I missed scientific approaches to life! I keep commenting on the forum with new ideas, lol, I can´t operate against my brain, it just wants a solution.
Joy, yep, bummer! Perhaps one has to let go of the idea to miss something when you don´t click on everyone´s entry? (I do sometimes feel like I missed out something, tss) Perhaps the one you´d like to find will eventually find you? Don´t know...
Modroom, Auntie Helen is a sweet one, but not too clever. She´s got so much room on the illustration to demonstrate her presence in many many many IF illustrations. Really, she was quite a model for this topic. I am glad you recognize her, that means you know she is taboo for the birds!
You have chosen a very dificult idea to connect with spotted, nevertheless you have obtained a wonderful result.
Another funny, splendid and unusual work. Stamp: Cristosova :)
Love the thinking behind this. :-)
auntie helen looks miffed! probably because she has been spending her free time making spread sheets! This is fun and amazing!!!
Well this is a hard subject fot me, I don't know how to make a digital painting, sometimes I wish I did especially today with the topic of Robot! I am an old fashioned gal,I like to do everything the hard, long way... but nothing against the digitals.
Lu, "unusual" is certainly quite fitting ;) I noticed I am always a bit off. And yes, I decided perhaps that is my trademark :) (Thank you!)
Rrramone, thanks, I should have even done more thinking and managaged the spread sheets better, but I knew noone would notice the inconsistencies, or they are just too polite ;)
Yes, Val, Auntie Helen is miffed, or maybe exhausted. You never know, she has very narrow mimicry she can choose from. I go digital most of the time, but I wished to have a) more time and b) more space for being ehem, manual? (Do you say that?) I love working with my hands. But I don´t even own a lot of art supplies. I find it fascinating about your art that everything is handcrafted - and especially the times you talk about your techniques!
Gee, this was a lotta work! I know what you mean...I can't look at them all anymore and always think I'm missing out on a great one!
I guess my entry was easy to catagorize....I'm pretty much computer illiterate...know nothing about photoshop and digital ( although I wouldn't ever rule it out if this ol' dinosaur could learn.)
..and my art supplies are pretty slim, too...a gallon size ziplock bag of pens and pencils and a small stack of art pads (sad, huh?)
Yowzah! Yep, I still feel like a newbie... only been doing the IF thing since October... but the increase in entries every week since that time is staggering. You may be right... make a distinction between digital and traditional art... My art's a hybrid, with all the finishing done in Photoshop, and I sometimes feel guilty about not getting my hands dirty.
Anyway, cool post.
Janet, I own almost no art supplies myself, I hear ya! I long to try out new techniques and get wild with materials. So I am stuck with the computer - and tiny drawings on scratch paper. (Not that I don´t love my computer, yes yes yes, I need to mention it, he is so sensitive.) Yes, yours was easy to categorize! Its all in your blog title ;)
Twisselman, I wasn´t of course serious about the dismissal of the digital art folks. I was just thinking about this category thing and it turns out most productions fall into this field. Personally I would be lost without my computer! Maybe "hybrid" would be a good category, too :)
i appreciate your finely sardonic thinking behind this!
Would be maybe worth to stick the excell sheets of paper on the wall for an exhibition called
" the fantastic world of IF " and get hands dirty again?
:)
Illustration Friday is a pretty popular thing to do, isn't it? I came into it in January of this year and the numbers seemed pretty high then, too--although, it seems to have grown even more since.
As far as I'm concerned, however, the more the merrier. I think people are pretty aware of how unwieldy the population is, that few, if any, are going to get to see, let alone make meaningful comments, on ALL of the entries.
The idea of having thumbnails on the site is tremendous. I'm not sure that would keep the population down, but it might make it easier to browse.
I hope digital art isn't banned! My stuff is colored in Photoshop--which ain't easy!
Thanks for this piece of engaging research and inquiry, Cristova--(and thanks, also, for your in-depth, thoughtful comment on my own work).
Great illo as usual! But...please don't take away digital illustration! This is all I ever do anymore! LOL! Although, maybe this will really get me to get back into drawing solely on paper again....
Thanks for mentioning my Photoshop Challenge...doesn't look like it is going to take off! Maybe my subject is too boring! LOL!
Yes, Aynaku, I have a bit of a sardonic side inside me :) Even a sinister one! I take the thing with the wall, but of course I had to handwrite it all down from the sheets to the wall, that would be truly cool. A meditation practice?
Roz, I don´t think digital art is going to be banned and I wouldn´t wish for it either! I was joking! And there you see that whatever one says, interpretation while being read is another thing. No, I don´t expect everyone to SEE all entries or make meaningful comments, but I remember the times when there were just 100 people posting or so and it was so great to flip between those pages. Now if I try to see a lot entries I am not just discouraged by the vast amount of them, also, naturally, the drawings become very repetetive. I am interested in this kind of research (although sloppily done) as the IF community resembles other communities. Whatever is working, usually it comes to a point of "excess" and than changes have to be made and than more difficulties will come in... I like to observe that ...
Txartcgal, well, I have no power over that anyway, lol! I would be lost without photoshop as well.
I like your photoshop challenge but for me it is a time factor. Currently I am just too busy to become any more creative (you know, when your brain dries out slowly.. yikes). I suppose that´s what it is for other people, too. Good luck anyway!
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