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[challenge entry] Jeep: horn works -- Chevy: wouldn't take it in the boot

From the Sexy Everyday Objects challenge. See all 85 entries (closed)

(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 5:32, archived)
# is that jeremy clarkson having a sly peek?
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 5:34, archived)
# just some automotive porn freak who couldn't resist
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 5:39, archived)
# they love it when the exhaust gets moist and begins dripping
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 5:41, archived)
# and tremble like school boys, should the trunk lid pop open
*trembles*
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 5:43, archived)
# MONSTER TRUCK, MONSTER FUCK
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 6:11, archived)
# This truck?
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 6:17, archived)
# ??
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 6:39, archived)
# haven't found it in SSG's photobucket album yet but here is a re-hosted copy
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 7:14, archived)
# :)gotcha--
I don't try to keep up with all the obscure little utterances that cross the board
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 7:25, archived)
# ALSO:
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 7:28, archived)
# Perhaps this is as good a time to ask as any--
I've never been able to understand what there is about this sort of imagery that some people find interesting or appealing. This isn't a criticism of it--just a lack of understanding on my part.
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 7:39, archived)
# done well, it's uniquely expressive.
done poorly, it's just bad.

but it's never, ever cubism.
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 7:42, archived)
# Maybe that's what I'm missing--
I can see no standard for what is "done well."
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 7:47, archived)
# It's time for birds
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 7:50, archived)
# and apparently not the time for philosophy of image making :p
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 7:52, archived)
# it is pretty hard for me to codify too, since it's a personal aesthetic response.
 
I don't know that there is an objective answer, but you could couch it in use of line, colour, originality.
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 7:54, archived)
# BUT I KNOW WHAT I LIKE
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 7:57, archived)
# but you don't know why?
edit: the line/color thing I relate to totally.
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 7:58, archived)
# HOW DO WE REALLY KNOW ANYTHING, MAN
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 8:01, archived)
# oh--some of us go to school and learn how to describe abstractions
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 8:04, archived)
# and you believe.. THEM?!
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 8:09, archived)
# I knew this place was not going to be a fountain of information :)
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(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 8:19, archived)
# okay if I put the blunt down just for a second
I think all human knowledge is fallible, thanks to subjective perception, so what we have is a socially negotiated belief system.
What we can express with certainty is our personal preferences, whether we think we know why we like something, or can't explain it at all.
 
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 9:39, archived)
# in other words, I don't know shit.
I've got a lot of jumped-up ideas about things, and a few wooly notions, but I don't know jack shit.
 
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 10:58, archived)
# Also it takes a certain type of genius to do something perfectly wrong
Just look at the music of David Liebe Hart.
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 8:04, archived)
# yeah I know, right?
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 7:40, archived)
# This fuck.
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 6:40, archived)