I tell you Leaguers, it’s tough being the sole guardian of high culture, but someone’s gotta do it.
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Calvin – “How unoriginal! How jejune! Stupid kid. If you don’t have anything to say, just keep quiet! Well, this is certainly shocking! Face it, kid, provoking a reaction isn’t the same thing as saying something significant! Look, pal, there’s no point expressing ideas if you can’t make them understood! You’re just babbling to yourself! And aren’t we all bored with the irony by now? You just THINK you’re above it all, kid! I tell you Hobbes, it’s tough being the sole guardian of high culture.”
Hobbes – “Talent like ours carries such enormous responsibility.”
One year ago in March, to protect our students and teachers from a new coronavirus, the Seattle Artist League moved our classes online. The virus was declared a national emergency, and we went into quarantine. We have now been in quarantine for thirteen months. Through this year, we have met each other online to draw, …
[image_with_animation image_url=”6237″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Raymond Pettibon Wiki: Raymond Pettibon (born Raymond Ginn; June 16, 1957) is an American artist who lives and works in New York City. Pettibon came to prominence in the early 1980s in the southern California punk rock scene, creating posters and album art mainly for groups on SST Records, owned and operated by his brother, Greg Ginn. …
Welcome to the 30SAL Creative Challenge! Broaden your creative skills Every day this January we’ll post a creative challenge to our V. Notes blog. Subscribers will receive these posts in their inbox. Designed to foster a wide variety of creative skills, our challenges are not restricted to any style or genre, and medium is artist’s …
Because Chinese Emperors wore yellow. What??? Pencils are yellow because the emperor wore yellow. Long long ago in China, a complicated system of social rank began to develop, and it developed with color codes. As early as the Zhou Dynasty (1046-256 BC), social hierarchy emerged to be graded by costume color. Over generations, this system …
The sole guardian of high culture
I tell you Leaguers, it’s tough being the sole guardian of high culture, but someone’s gotta do it.
[image_with_animation image_url=”6039″ alignment=”” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] Trouble reading the tiny text? Here’s the script:
Calvin – “How unoriginal! How jejune! Stupid kid. If you don’t have anything to say, just keep quiet! Well, this is certainly shocking! Face it, kid, provoking a reaction isn’t the same thing as saying something significant! Look, pal, there’s no point expressing ideas if you can’t make them understood! You’re just babbling to yourself! And aren’t we all bored with the irony by now? You just THINK you’re above it all, kid! I tell you Hobbes, it’s tough being the sole guardian of high culture.”
Hobbes – “Talent like ours carries such enormous responsibility.”
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