First Base - Logan Circle (1405 hits)
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Submitted by forthewin (http://www.swmoore.com/kthx.html) (View user info) at 2009-08-10 17:34:27 EDT
This is what I see every time I walk outside. The best thing about having a front yard that belongs to the city is that you can enjoy it as much as you would like, but you don't have to do any yard work.
Also known as one of the 5 points of DC's pentagram. I'm not going to speculate as to why the roads in DC form a very clean pentagram, but it's pretty neat regardless of the reason. Personally, I like to subscribe to any theory involving reptilian overlords, so if anyone has any information linking DC's road system to reptilian overlords, that would be excellent!
painting: 24x30 - oil on canvas - completed 8/08/09
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Submitted by c1ndy (user info) at 2009-11-22 16:05:09 EST (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2009-09-25 18:56:48 EDT (#)
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Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-08-15 11:53:43 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2009-08-14 21:10:06 EDT (#)
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Logan circle? I didn't know you lived in DC my man. I'm up on massachussetts avenue past the cathedral...I know your neighborhood though, not too far from the 9:30 club.
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Crazy man, you know Steaknegg? I cook for the drunk masses there part time. Monday and Tuesday nights.
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Holy shit, yes I know steak and egg, in Tenleytown on Wisconsin?
I occasionally am one of those drunk masses.
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-08-28 01:09:49 EDT (#)
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I did, in fact, and quite liked it.
The thing is, every once in awhile I think up something ridiculous I want to throw together, but life gets busy, and some things are simply more important.
Submitted by haikumikoo (user info) at 2009-08-25 13:33:17 EDT (#)
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I miss the ridiculous FTW posts where dwarves eat people and what not. Don't tell me you've outgrown dwarf murder posts.
Also, going to see Ben Folds with the Spokane symphony in october. He was on your band list deal.
Did you ever get into 13&God?
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-08-15 11:53:43 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2009-08-14 21:10:06 EDT (#)
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Logan circle? I didn't know you lived in DC my man. I'm up on massachussetts avenue past the cathedral...I know your neighborhood though, not too far from the 9:30 club.
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Crazy man, you know Steaknegg? I cook for the drunk masses there part time. Monday and Tuesday nights.
Submitted by Axolotl (user info) at 2009-08-14 21:10:06 EDT (#)
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Logan circle? I didn't know you lived in DC my man. I'm up on massachussetts avenue past the cathedral...I know your neighborhood though, not too far from the 9:30 club.
Submitted by Fey (user info) at 2009-08-12 17:24:26 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by LoooseSprocket (user info) at 2009-08-12 12:16:39 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2009-08-12 11:52:10 EDT (#)
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fair enough
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-08-11 17:31:52 EDT (#)
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Pandora: you know, I read an extensive website on the subject once, that seemed very well done, by a normal person doing research and making observations. Not some crazy conspiracy nutjob. And a lot the connections they made were almost too close to be an accident. It's quite interesting. But I still was unable to find anything on reptilian overlords and I can't accept a conspiracy without them.
Rob: the problem I think is in the way it turned out while photographed. A lot of the textures and lighting look much different in person. Strangely, it actually seems to look less detailed when it is downsized, which is not usually the case for paintings.
Doodles: various light sources had an interesting effect on the lighting of and around the tree. That's one of the reasons I decided to paint it.
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-08-11 17:13:03 EDT (#)
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Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-08-11 17:03:29 EDT (#)
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i think next i'd like to see you do something featuring a homosexual unicorn spearing bill o'reilly in the scrotum with his horn while his mane and tail flutter majestically in the breeze.
i estimate you could sell such a piece for at least 25 million dollars.
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You know when you have a really great idea, and then someone suggests the same thing to you, and it ruins your idea because now they'll try and take the credit for you going through with it??
THANKS A LOT, SCOURGE.
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-08-11 17:03:29 EDT (#)
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i think next i'd like to see you do something featuring a homosexual unicorn spearing bill o'reilly in the scrotum with his horn while his mane and tail flutter majestically in the breeze.
i estimate you could sell such a piece for at least 25 million dollars.
Submitted by Offspring (user info) at 2009-08-11 15:47:31 EDT (#)
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Showcase your talent. Sweet.
Submitted by pandora (user info) at 2009-08-11 15:21:52 EDT (#)
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This is beautiful. Some people think the pentagrams have something to do with the city being designed by Freemasons, and that they have some sort of mystical significance. I don't know if it's true, but it's interesting to read about.
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2009-08-11 15:16:43 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Wildman (user info) at 2009-08-11 00:35:15 EDT (#)
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Bubba's just mad cause there's no young'ns in the picture thus he can't diddle himself.
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Compared to me, wildman is a punk boy. He qualifies as a youngun.
Submitted by Can_Always_Trust_A_Liar (user info) at 2009-08-11 13:56:53 EDT (#)
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OMG PHOTOSHOP!!1
Submitted by HellRazer (user info) at 2009-08-11 13:17:48 EDT (#)
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http://boingboing.net/2008/04/09/mccain-and-conspirac.html
Submitted by rob_berg (user info) at 2009-08-11 12:50:06 EDT (#)
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I like it, but it kinda feels like the kind of background painting you would find in an animated cartoon.
Which is cool, if not a little lacking.
.02
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2009-08-11 08:16:47 EDT (#)
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Wait, you do art?
Submitted by Foolproof (user info) at 2009-08-11 07:50:39 EDT (#)
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oh...a tree
Submitted by monkeyswithguns (user info) at 2009-08-11 07:48:41 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2009-08-11 04:26:19 EDT (#)
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pretty
According to the internet, the plan of DC is designed to accentuate the "monumental core" of the city when back in 1901(?) congress hired the frenchman L'enfant to 'pimp our nation'.
Submitted by Wildman (user info) at 2009-08-11 00:35:15 EDT (#)
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Bubba's just mad cause there's no young'ns in the picture thus he can't diddle himself.
Submitted by Ebenezer_Spooge (user info) at 2009-08-10 23:12:05 EDT (#)
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not bad
Submitted by cheerios (user info) at 2009-08-10 22:49:28 EDT (#)
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even though you're an idiot when it comes to politics...thats a nice picture.
btw - fox news ratings are skyrocketing, while the liberal news networks are tanking. big surprise there.
Submitted by Doodles (user info) at 2009-08-10 22:43:23 EDT (#)
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Why is the tree luminescent?
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-08-10 21:50:42 EDT (#)
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Doubtful, Shlongy.
The internet cares more about obscure things than traditional art.
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2009-08-10 20:40:26 EDT (#)
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IS THIS GOING TO BE ANOTHER MSPAINT 47,000,000 HIT MASTERPIECE???
Submitted by Danger_Ranger (user info) at 2009-08-10 20:32:30 EDT (#)
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okay chromie well I used to be a top husband and a real winner and look where it got me. I didn't realise you actually wed your joo. Are you having a bar mitzvah?
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2009-08-10 20:23:08 EDT (#)
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yes.
it was brilliant.
robocock.
HEY
the jewess is away so I am going to boil poppy team and get seriously opiately fucked up.
on a monday.
i am already shitfaced cos I bunked off work and got carted and extremely stoned with my mate.
i swear to god i am a real winner an top husband.
Submitted by Danger_Ranger (user info) at 2009-08-10 20:19:46 EDT (#)
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do you see what I did there apollo?
Submitted by Danger_Ranger (user info) at 2009-08-10 20:18:58 EDT (#)
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why can't you just submit a photo from a normal angle?
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2009-08-10 20:18:24 EDT (#)
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yes well, lungfish has issues all of his own.
I GOT AN ERECTION AT MY NAN'S FUNERAL.
THERE.
I SAID IT
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2009-08-10 20:17:03 EDT (#)
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right that is IT
i MAY at SOME angles give the FALSE impression that perhaps, maybe if the light is poor then if one's eyesight is a bit off my hair line MAY give the IMPRESSION of receding a TOUCH but thats probably an OPTICAL ILLUSION.
Submitted by Danger_Ranger (user info) at 2009-08-10 20:10:16 EDT (#)
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do you think haimie's hair might be falling out, maybe a little zidane spot at the back or creeping back from the front? because you and I have famously luxurious heads of hair and he's SO angry all the time. you know in some of his camwhores his forehead looks pretty big..
oh wait.
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2009-08-10 20:04:48 EDT (#)
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I know. But the timing was perfect. And everything he said applies to me as well.
:(
Submitted by Danger_Ranger (user info) at 2009-08-10 20:03:05 EDT (#)
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it's okay lungfish I think he was referring to me. he's upset because I made some snide comments about his football club and fernando torres, his boyfriend.
unless of course you've been drinking some gay beer, in which case he was definitely talking about you.
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2009-08-10 19:57:09 EDT (#)
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:(
Submitted by Danger_Ranger (user info) at 2009-08-10 19:55:01 EDT (#)
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i'm above you now apoofo
Submitted by Danger_Ranger (user info) at 2009-08-10 19:53:59 EDT (#)
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i got a stiffy in the '90s
:(
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2009-08-10 19:53:28 EDT (#)
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you know, that cunt below me you know the grey haired 'oh look at me pushing my hair behind my ears like I still hold some sort of value to humanity' cunt, you know, him - I mean OMG what the fuck is the purpose of all that? I mean wtf? He drinks gheylord beer and whinnies pitifully and clearly has no understanding whatsoever of football yet people still acknowledge his existence and that is just WRONG.
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2009-08-10 19:51:31 EDT (#)
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I got a stiffy at the Louvre. How many people here can say that?
Submitted by Danger_Ranger (user info) at 2009-08-10 19:46:59 EDT (#)
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oh I get I do that whenever I masturbate, you know pretend it's not my hand - STILL a hand, just a hand I've seen elsewhere.
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-08-10 19:46:32 EDT (#)
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Kaos: Kincaid... Don't even get me started. Seriously. He scammed religious organizations to make money for his paintings. That, and he is full of himself in the worst way. "Painter of Light" my ass. Walk into any art museum and you will find that almost every painting there will show a better example of someone who had a great concept of light.
I used to want to like Kincaid, just because I thought he deserved credit for his success. But he doesn't even deserve that.
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2009-08-10 19:41:29 EDT (#)
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Nah...you're right. I justed wanted to say that I went to an art museum once. About 20 years ago. Chicks dig cultured guys.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2009-08-10 19:40:25 EDT (#)
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I find this much better than Kincaid.
That's a good thing...
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-08-10 19:39:15 EDT (#)
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Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2009-08-10 19:36:05 EDT (#)
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You coulda had a gay guy wearing a red halter top. Missed opportunity. Damn.
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Sometimes I wish I could +2 comments.
Though, my wife just informed me that she does not recall ever seeing a gay guy wear a halter top. Come to think of it, neither have I.
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-08-10 19:37:12 EDT (#)
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Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2009-08-10 19:33:06 EDT (#)
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Very nice. Dig the lights. Could use just a small red thing...like that one guy. (I went to an art museum once.)
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Thanks! There's a small orange-ish thing over to the left, does that count? The problem with something red, or colorful in the foreground is that it's such a dimly lit setting that even the brightest of colors would still end up being somewhat faded.
Though, I was actually considering putting something in the foreground, and then I remembered that I really wanted the tree to be the focus of the painting, because I really really like that tree.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-08-10 19:36:54 EDT (#)
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Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-08-10 19:19:31 EDT (#)
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To break it down, you will never see a photograph that looks like that painting.
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Anyone, even I, can take a photograph and print it. Imagination is as essential to a painting as is the paint. Says the guy who can't paint, of course.
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2009-08-10 19:36:05 EDT (#)
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You coulda had a gay guy wearing a red halter top. Missed opportunity. Damn.
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-08-10 19:34:18 EDT (#)
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Because I see all of the elements of the painting, just in different placement. For the most part, that is what I see.
I just did not feel like everyone would like to hear me explain that, "I see this every time I leave the house, except the sidewalk is in a different place, and the road lines are further around, etc."
Also, I decided to leave out the homeless people and gay men walking dogs.
Submitted by lungfish (user info) at 2009-08-10 19:33:06 EDT (#)
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Very nice. Dig the lights. Could use just a small red thing...like that one guy. (I went to an art museum once.)
Submitted by Danger_Ranger (user info) at 2009-08-10 19:30:52 EDT (#)
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well how can it be what you see everytime you walk outside, dumbarse.
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-08-10 19:19:31 EDT (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-08-10 19:11:24 EDT (#)
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You painted this from pictures? Not being insulting or hypercritical or judgemental, just want to know: do you take pictures and then paint what's in the pictures, or do you use the pictures to refresh/enhance your memory of seeing the subject?
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For this one it was completely varied. I had a set of photographs that I used as reference, but a lot of it was from memory, and a lot of the times, I would be painting at night, so I would just walk outside and take note of how things looked. Once I just took the canvas outside. The photographs were actually far less useful than memory. I find as time goes on, I just use my memory more.
The painting itself was actually a bit on the made up side. The bottom half of the painting is of one side of the circle, and the tree and top half was from the other side. I also didn't paint the monument, because I simply did not like it.
To break it down, you will never see a photograph that looks like that painting.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-08-10 19:11:24 EDT (#)
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You painted this from pictures? Not being insulting or hypercritical or judgemental, just want to know: do you take pictures and then paint what's in the pictures, or do you use the pictures to refresh/enhance your memory of seeing the subject?
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-08-10 19:07:45 EDT (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-08-10 18:56:26 EDT (#)
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I like it. There's something about it that bugs me, but I like it anyway.
It's the lower branches disappearing liike that. Bugs me. Like it anyway.
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I think it has a lot to do with the picture I took of it. I just could not get a decent picture for some reason.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2009-08-10 18:56:26 EDT (#)
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I like it. There's something about it that bugs me, but I like it anyway.
It's the lower branches disappearing liike that. Bugs me. Like it anyway.
Submitted by messmind (user info) at 2009-08-10 18:29:05 EDT (#)
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It just had to be done... And this painting reminded me of bob.;p
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-08-10 18:27:18 EDT (#)
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Submitted by messmind (user info) at 2009-08-10 18:25:54 EDT (#)
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Nice stuff, man. http://www.etisrebu.com/images/Hmmmbop.gif
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Haaaaaaaaah! That's awesome! I love Bob Ross.
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-08-10 18:26:25 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Can_Always_Trust_A_Liar (user info) at 2009-08-10 18:21:26 EDT (#)
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Fake.
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See, now, you're not supposed to say fake... You're supposed to say, "OMG PHOTOSHOP!!1"
Submitted by messmind (user info) at 2009-08-10 18:25:54 EDT (#)
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Nice stuff, man. http://www.etisrebu.com/images/Hmmmbop.gif
Submitted by Spam (user info) at 2009-08-10 18:22:05 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Can_Always_Trust_A_Liar (user info) at 2009-08-10 18:21:26 EDT (#)
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Fake.
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2009-08-10 18:18:36 EDT (#)
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+2 because I'm completely jelus of peeps with artistic talent and anfry that I don't gots none.
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-08-10 18:13:27 EDT (#)
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Well, Bubba... You can take some meds anyway. Have a good time, and whatnot.
Submitted by wookie (user info) at 2009-08-10 18:12:42 EDT (#)
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That was originally called Iowa Circle. Nice painting.
That is all.
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-08-10 18:11:09 EDT (#)
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Scourge: completely depends on the painting and how much time it takes to complete. I've been trying to avoid commissions, and succeeding for quite some time now. They're great for money, but bad for my sanity!
Submitted by Ducky (user info) at 2009-08-10 18:10:14 EDT (#)
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Applesauce sucking? Now you're just being downright mean dude.
Submitted by Ducky (user info) at 2009-08-10 18:09:22 EDT (#)
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forthwithin...I like the painting...it's got a less is more sort of feel to it.
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2009-08-10 18:08:12 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-08-10 18:01:05 EDT (#)
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What does it mean when Doodles comes along and drops his obligatory -2??
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I'm calmer than the bathtub at midnight. Doodles sucks applesauce.
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-08-10 18:06:08 EDT (#)
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Damn, Bubba. Calm down. Maybe take some meds. Whatever does it for you.
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-08-10 18:05:41 EDT (#)
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same thing. he and bubba are but different sides of the same coin.
doodles is just up front about trolling. ind of ruins it if you were to ask me, but different strokes beat of a drum blah blah blah.
what sort of rates do you charge, and do you do much/any commission work?
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2009-08-10 18:03:26 EDT (#)
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Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-08-10 18:01:05 EDT (#)
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What does it mean when Doodles comes along and drops his obligatory -2??
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it means you and scourge have a suck off.
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2009-08-10 18:02:14 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
-2 -2 -2 -2- -2
have another 100K. MISTER PAINT MASTER!!
Fuck Scourge.
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-08-10 18:01:05 EDT (#)
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What does it mean when Doodles comes along and drops his obligatory -2??
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-08-10 17:58:56 EDT (#)
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see?!
you're already winning on the bubba front! if he disapproves it's an easy 10K points on your side of the ledger.
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2009-08-10 17:57:43 EDT (#)
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Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-08-07 18:51:47 EDT (#)
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I was just about to say "-2, that is not how you win Uber."
And then I looked at the rating.
I stand corrected.
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oh, see it's not the rating. it's a complex formula of how many people you can annoy with the least amount of effort and your own personal levels of satisfaction splashed somewhere in there amongst a few other bits.
probably something to do with boobs.
maybe a few rounds of drinks.
i dunno.
YOU HAVE TO FEEL LIKE A WINNER.
Submitted by forthewin (user info) at 2009-08-10 17:55:12 EDT (#)
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Aww, Bubba doesn't like my painting because it's not a comic book. I'm so sad.
Submitted by Bubba2341 (user info) at 2009-08-10 17:48:04 EDT (#)
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big fucking tree w/ fuzzy lights. I'm very impressed.
Submitted by Toddler (user info) at 2009-08-10 17:46:31 EDT (#)
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I've got nothin' smart tah say, but I like what you've done.