How is it already 10:30?

[cleolinda]

So I've spent my evening screencapping Cloverfield commercials (icons, cough), how was yours?

(Question: When people do text-only icons, you know, and the quote or text or whatever takes up the entire space and is, I might add, completely legible, what fonts do they tend to use? Because I'd like to use something a little less pixelly than Silkscreen, and I don't really have time to wade through the 2500 fonts on my hard drive. "Hey! That one doesn't even have letters!")

P.S. Verdict on last night's discussion: 1) It's not unreasonable to feel that "This sucks!" is a teensy bit unhelpful; 2) that said, you can't really shut yourself off from negative criticism, even if it's unhelpful, because one day it might be helpful, so... it sucks to be you, and by you I mean me, if you haven't toughened up yet, basically.

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[gold-tree.livejournal.com]

Right now I'm entering my final year at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and I thought I'd share a little bit of my experience with the critiquing process, because getting over an aversion non-constructive criticism was a big thing for me. In general, the majority of the critiques we have concern work that is entirely completed. Some classes have crits with work in-progress, which is something that I've never found very helpful, personally, because the way we critique involves the assumption that the work is complete. Because there is so much bullshit inherent in the fine arts, I have found that, as a reaction to that condition, the critiques are sometimes unnecessarily vicious or benignly, yet entirely, unconstructive. Often times people reject work simply because it does not gratify their own aesthetic or literary tastes. It has nothing to do with you or what you're trying to accomplish; it's a matter of personal agendas. Many, many times I have had to listen to people justifying their own personal and completely biased opinions as to why my work sucks, trying to dress it up as objective criticism.

As a result, I have created my own Internal Bullshit Filter. I listen to what everyone has to say, I make a show of carefully considering their opinions, and I filter out whatever is not relevant or applicable to my process as an artist. I have made the happy discovery that 99.9% of all criticism can be filtered out as bullshit.