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# Maybe that's what I'm missing--
I can see no standard for what is 'done well.'
(I helped save b3ta! LS18, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 7:47, archived)
# It's time for birds
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 7:50, archived)
# and apparently not the time for philosophy of image making :p
(I helped save b3ta! LS18, 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.
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 7:54, archived)
# BUT I KNOW WHAT I LIKE
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 7:57, archived)
# but you don't know why?
edit: the line/color thing I relate to totally.
(I helped save b3ta! LS18, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 7:58, archived)
# HOW DO WE REALLY KNOW ANYTHING, MAN
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 8:01, archived)
# oh--some of us go to school and learn how to describe abstractions
(I helped save b3ta! LS18, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 8:04, archived)
# and you believe.. THEM?!
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 8:09, archived)
# I knew this place was not going to be a fountain of information :)
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(I helped save b3ta! LS18, 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.
 
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, 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.
 
(I helped save b3ta! Rapitinui get in the cage and I'll give you a treat, 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.
(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan @vomitinglarry.bsky.social, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 8:04, archived)