Theme weeks?

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Notepad

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I think if we held a Victoria's Secret-Worthy Art Week, everyone would find a reason to respond. Really, we'd get such a rise out of everyone, all they could do is sit there and type (because there's no walking away from issues like that). Its not like it'd be done so we can stroke our egos, just so that we can explore some huge points and cover them with very little substance. I'm tired of things like this getting the shaft! There needs to be some place brave enough to not cop out, and just get a feel of the issues, at least. Not like we really have to spread it wide open and plunge in. There's so much to explore, we could all go really deep in this topic, finding things we didn't know about, like little spots that make us shout out, "Gee!"

...um...sorry, just had to do that...
 
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Spiderman

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Okay, let's see if we can start and choose one for next week. Should I just pick one or do you guys want a say and vote on it? If you want to vote on it, post your top three.
 
T

train

Guest
I say jus tpick an interesting theme there o-webbed-one...:cool:

I'll write as much as I can - I have a busy school schedule this semester...:rolleyes:
 
N

Notepad

Guest
My picks:

Victoria's Secret-Worthy Artwork Week
Playboy-Worthy Artwork Week
Hustler-Worthy Artwork Week

There's my votes. ;)
 
N

Notepad

Guest
Actually:

"A week of just ripping on loser fanboys too lame to go out and find real girls to gawk, so they get off to little pictures of half-naked elves and angels." -theme week works for me. I would enjoy ripping on the retarded depictions of females in scifi and fantasy.

I've ripped on it before, but the forum was a shooter design forum, and it pretty much backfired in my face. The thing that brought it up was the forum was designing player models for the game. The men had huge armor and bulky bodies in even bulkier tech gear. The women...well, calling their gear a swimsuit would give you the wrong idea, because a swimsuit covers *much* more than the suits they designed. Even after I posted a picture of Marines in a training drill (a whole bunch, like 20-30 running through a muddy river), daring anybody to point out the females from the males, or where the armor/gear difference was in the two sexes, everyone still said "females have to have less gear and clothes because yadda yadda yadda" usually sexist reasons. Funny enough, they ended up falling back on the classic defense "well, women's bodies are beautiful and should be shown off rather than hidden" Um...so much for making sense in a military shooter game.

Same goes for Magic. Why are all the females in such skimpy armor, all the time?

Bleh, rant over.
 
Oversoul

Oversoul

The Tentacled One
Originally posted by SeFRo
Same goes for Magic. Why are all the females in such skimpy armor, all the time?
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The only reasons I can think of...

It gives them some sort of combat advantage by distracting their male adversaries (um, yeah right).

or...

Because it sells...

or...

Because the artists have issues...
 
Killer Joe

Killer Joe

New member
Negativity and SEX sells [period].

Would you buy a newspaper that had on the front cover:
"Local High School marching band wins Regional Competition"

~or~

"Local High School marching Band Director caught IN-THE-ACT"

The first one would go 'limp' on sales and the second one you couldn't make enough copies. :rolleyes:

Sad, but true :(
 
Oversoul

Oversoul

The Tentacled One
I do not think that it is because of the sexual element there, or because it's negative. For me it wouldn't be anyway...

The first headline is really quite boring for one thing. SOMEONE has to win the regional competition. An article announcing that this happened is not interesting. It's not a good angle for an article. Hopefully a writer/editor would at the very least make the headline something more attention-grabbing (that being what headlines are supposed to do and all). Also, in my case at least, marching band competitions aren't a topic of particular interest.

The second one could potentially be more interesting. If I perhaps am acquainted with the instructor, or if I'm wondering what they mean by "in the act." In the act of what? I guess I'll just have to read the article and find out...
 
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Spiderman

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I don't know about Magic cards "selling" because of the art; if that happens it's undoubtable in the minority. But this game (and usually other fantasy genres like D&D) are male-dominated and so female are depicted in skimpy armor.

Although now that I think about it, it could also be "conditioning" from society since women's mags more often have women on the cover, not men, even though their audience in women. Not sure why that is - maybe the women are supposed to be "role models" or something? I don't know... so maybe it's deeper than it seems.

Back on topic: Okay, for next week (or the week after), how about we start easy and have people write about what they like about the casual enviroment. Could be a favorite play, moment, comraderie, decks, whatever. Something easy to get the ball rolling and to see how many people actually write.
 
Oversoul

Oversoul

The Tentacled One
Bleh. I am cancelling Casual Archetypes for reasons that will probably be posted in the original Casual Archetypes thread later. It didn't work out...

I'm writing an article for this though. What should we title these things and all that? Anything special to indicate that they're for a theme week or something?
 
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Notepad

Guest
I think its the artists' having issues. I mean, they're rich and artsy, and they still need to create porn for themselves? What wierdos. The rich and artsy thing attracts women almost as good as being in a boy band. Well, not all are rich, but the artsy thing helps a lot.

On topic, sounds like a good theme. When's it start?

About the Casual Archtypes...um, wtf!??! Please continue it. Or, at least, pass on your idea notepad to somebody who can take it up. I just may have time to write a few Casual Archetypes articles.
 
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Spiderman

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Staff member
There's no articles coming in at the moment about other stuff, so I'll probably get that it's a theme week article when I start reading about it. But if you want to be sure, put "Theme Week" in the title.

I guess we'll start next week to give you guys some time to write? And I'll post the second week's theme at the end of this week? Is that a good schedule?
 
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Spiderman

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Staff member
I don't have a schedule right now, I more or less wanted to see the interest from the first week and see if it's worth continuing...
 
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