Bill_de Loc: US

This thread is like the impeachment hearings. A lot of bluster and repetition which at the end of the day means nothing. Everybody goes home with the same ideas they started with, all knowing they are correct.



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artBob Loc: Near Chicago

What a shame, but fits the pattern. But, both sides can't be right.

Studies show that on most two-sided arguments, ca. 40-45% are tribally hooked into one side, and another 40-45% tribally unchangeable on the other. That leaves 10-20% open-minded and truly independent. Disciplining the self to seek unbiased truth is one of the great aims.

Today’s ‘Outrage Culture’ leaves no room for respect or thought. Or, as is attributed to Eleanor Roosevelt, "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

Darkroom317 Loc: Mishawaka, IN

It is a common practice in physical critiques with printed work to have either a peer (other student) or professor walk up to a print and use a sheet a paper to display a potential crop. When discussing composition we often point and and move our finger to visually discussion the exact lines, form and direction of an image.

Also, it is common for a professor or peer to either rotate a print to show a different potential view. Prints are often moved and resequenced too in the same manner, or even moved to be excluded to see if the series would be stronger or clearer without some of the images.

While, it is not common for someone else to draw lines on an image with pen or pencil, we often do this ourselves to check our compositions and highlight areas to be edited for improvement.

As this is an online forum we cannot have these intense critical discussions on here in the same manner because of the lack of physical communication, space and work. I don't think using lines on an image to visually articular compositional matter is unreasonable in a digital space such as this.