Am I really that out of the loop?

[enyawd72]

I saw an online contest for creating a new portrait of Johnny Depp Barnabas Collins in the same vein as the classic portrait from the series.

I would have loved to enter it, but I honestly couldn't even understand the rules. You had to download and use something called "assets" and templates, which I did, and I had no idea what the hell I was supposed to do with either of them.

That's the second or third art contest I haven't entered because of the computer requirements. Why can't you just create art the old fashioned way, scan it and submit it?

Does anybody NOT do art on a computer these days? Sure doesn't seem like it. I feel like a dinosaur sometimes.

[Mikey]

You feel like a dinosaur ?

The other day I had to go to the emergecy room ... All the people waiting in there were playing portable video games.

I mentioned it to the woman sitting next to me and she said they're not playing games, most are "texting"

I guess that means typing something

Weird ... just looking at them all made me think everybody was under somekind of mind control

[HardyGirl]

You feel like a dinosaur ?

The other day I had to go to the emergecy room ... All the people waiting in there were playing portable video games.

I mentioned it to the woman sitting next to me and she said they're not playing games, most are "texting"

I guess that means typing something

Weird ... just looking at them all made me think everybody was under somekind of mind control

I know, it reminds me of that Star Trek TNG episode "The Game". When it was raining for the 4th straight day a couple of weeks ago, I put a movie on for the kids to watch, and all of the staff that were there at the time pulled out their cell phones, almost simultaneously! I just sat w/ the kids shaking my head, and thinking, "Really?"

[mazinz]

Weird ... just looking at them all made me think everybody was under somekind of mind control

They are. Take away that technology from them for a good half hour and watch them go into a fit almost like a drug withdrawal

[Mikey]

I know, it reminds me of that Star Trek TNG episode "The Game". When it was raining for the 4th straight day a couple of weeks ago, I put a movie on for the kids to watch, and all of the staff that were there at the time pulled out their cell phones, almost simultaneously! I just sat w/ the kids shaking my head, and thinking, "Really?"

That's the one where Wesley is the only one left ?

I kinda like that one... A gulty pleasure

[samurainoir]

post the link, maybe one of us here can help you out.

Even if you create in traditional media, I'm sure that they require you to submit it electronically in a resolution, size and dimensions that they can use.

[huedell]

Take away technology and the advances it's given us, and you're back in the
Stone Age ....and without most of the luxuries that made those decades
that you DO approve of that much more enjoyable and easier to tackle.

You can't address today's advances w/out considering the ones from
the 17th century, the 18th, the 19th----from the 1950s to the 1980s

To deny modern day people modern luxuries such as checking their
e-mail, or chatting with friends from the workplace, or etc etc etc, seems hypocritical.

Oh---and I'm sure the irony that being disgusted with tech advances
while posting on the Net ...(and about TREK no less!)... isn't lost on anyone

[enyawd72]

Take away technology and the advances it's given us, and you're back in the
Stone Age ....and without most of the luxuries that made those decades
that you DO approve of that much more enjoyable and easier to tackle.

You can't address today's advances w/out considering the ones from
the 17th century, the 18th, the 19th----from the 1950s to the 1980s

To deny modern day people modern luxuries such as checking their
e-mail, or chatting with friends from the workplace, or etc etc etc, seems hypocritical.

Oh---and I'm sure the irony that being disgusted with tech advances
while posting on the Net ...(and about TREK no less!)... isn't lost on anyone

I never said I didn't approve of or were disgusted with any tech advances...only that I didn't understand some of them.
Whether you agree with it or not, the facts all indicate we are becoming a nation of dummies. When kids don't have to bother to learn how to write or spell correctly because the computer "fixes" everything for them, how is that a good thing? I've seen many examples of high school kids who are barely able to sign their own name.
Another problem with the net, is how it's making libraries obsolete. I can't tell you how many interesting books I've picked up simply because they were on the shelf. I wasn't looking for them, but discovered them. With the internet, there is no discovery. It only searches for what you tell it to.
Computers are great as a tool, but they've practically taken over every aspect of our lives. THAT'S what I have a problem with.

[kennermike]

I saw an online contest for creating a new portrait of Johnny Depp Barnabas Collins in the same vein as the classic portrait from the series.

I would have loved to enter it, but I honestly couldn't even understand the rules. You had to download and use something called "assets" and templates, which I did, and I had no idea what the hell I was supposed to do with either of them.

That's the second or third art contest I haven't entered because of the computer requirements. Why can't you just create art the old fashioned way, scan it and submit it?

Does anybody NOT do art on a computer these days? Sure doesn't seem like it. I feel like a dinosaur sometimes.

I agree with you

[kennermike]

I saw an online contest for creating a new portrait of Johnny Depp Barnabas Collins in the same vein as the classic portrait from the series.

I would have loved to enter it, but I honestly couldn't even understand the rules. You had to download and use something called "assets" and templates, which I did, and I had no idea what the hell I was supposed to do with either of them.

That's the second or third art contest I haven't entered because of the computer requirements. Why can't you just create art the old fashioned way, scan it and submit it?

Does anybody NOT do art on a computer these days? Sure doesn't seem like it. I feel like a dinosaur sometimes.

technology has gotten out of hand ,in terms of Art take Hollywood they are using computers for a every little thing and Im completely sick of it but I guess thats a bad example Hollywood is not Showart its showbusiness LOL.do things the old fashion way already
The whole texting thing is rediculas people walking around typing like mindless drons

[jessica]

I know, it reminds me of that Star Trek TNG episode "The Game". When it was raining for the 4th straight day a couple of weeks ago, I put a movie on for the kids to watch, and all of the staff that were there at the time pulled out their cell phones, almost simultaneously! I just sat w/ the kids shaking my head, and thinking, "Really?"

i'd be the first to take out my cell phone, admittedly.

[4NDR01D]

In general, the people who complain about technology are the people who don't understand it or don't have it.

[Mikey]

In general, the people who complain about technology are the people who don't understand it or don't have it.

That's me on both accounts

[4NDR01D]

That's me on both accounts

It WAS me as well, until I got an iPhone, high speed internet (internet in general as I used to look down on "computer geeks"), HD TV, etc

[4NDR01D]

edit: double post

I really don't get the "Above it all" attitude that some people have towards technology. "Bah, facebook, stupid people sending messages back and forth, waste of friggin time, I don't even have a facebook account, therefore I'm better than the people that do blah blah blah", "Kids and their cell phones, always talking and texting blah blah blah", "Video games, kids always playing video games, when I was a kid I played scrabble blah blah blah".