You said you made lists, quotes and rules as as way of "communicating" with the outside world.
The outside world is free to communicate back however it wants.
Vandalism....
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You said you made lists, quotes and rules as as way of "communicating" with the outside world.
The outside world is free to communicate back however it wants.
I would say that the artist is qualified as a "scam" artist. (I feel that way about a great deal of "modern" art, with the artists as scammers and the critics that support them as people desperately seeking relevance and a need to appear profound.) But these are subjective opinions, one man's art is another man's bird crap on canvas.
That's true, assuming that a message with zero informational content is "communication."
At its most basic level, me smacking you in the head with a rock would be communication. However, it probably shouldn't be something you'd consider admirable or desirable, and I probably shouldn't be free to do it, no matter how much I or anyone else might drive enjoyment from it.
"See the way the blood spatter explodes ferociously across the canvas? Really brings out the inner rage of the artist! See this pound of flesh? Obviously an anti-consumerism message on his part! The bit of eyeball? A warning not to perceive things only at they appear!"
And it's possible that the dorm rules technically only allowed for hanging things on the inside of the space, with the outside considered public space. So the night cleaning crew would have been well within their rights to communicate campus policy by taking the posters down altogether, since they could possibly be considered defacement of school property. 
Kor
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Sorry but you can't say that you made lists, quotes and rules and then say... but there was no informational content. Clearly there was otherwise someone wouldn't have felt the need to respond to it.
Perhaps he helped to teach you a valuable and necessary lesson about communication. Or not as the case may be.
I sympathize completely with you. Freshman year I regularly created cartoons, caricatures, and other humorous artwork and posted it on the outside of my door for my floor mates to [hopefully] enjoy (Yes, this was allowed by dorm rules and no, nothing posted was nasty or mean spirited or controversial). Most everyone did enjoy my work and looked forward to new stuff and most everything survived unscathed, but a couple of the pieces (original artwork, mind you) got vandalized.... one had a nice loogie spit up on it and another had something nasty written in marker on it. This was -of course- communication. But not what I consider useful, constructive, adult conversation, but a communication of sorts. The way a drunk kicks his dog because he's had a bad day. Or someone doesn't like that the neighbor could afford a new car, so they scrape the paint job with their house key as they pass by.
In contrast, I DID do one poster that was a takeoff on the movie poster for "The Final Countdown" showing the U.S.S. Nimitz lost -not in time- but in amongst the 'tangle' of modern metal sculpture on one part of our campus. A note was pinned to my door the morning after I posted it, possibly by one of the art/sculpture majors on the floor that stated how -as an artist- I was missing the point of the sculptures. I appreciated the thoughtful note, thought a bit about irony, and revisited the sculpture to have a second, more thoughtful look. Modern art sculptures are still not my favorite type of art, but I do appreciate them more and try to understand them more since that day.
THAT is what I consider good, grown-up communication.
I didn't care for that sculpture, but I didn't spit on it or throw paint on it or vandalize it. I created a cartoon about it.
My floor mate didn't care for my cartoon, but she expressed herself in thoughtful words without vandalizing my art.
I took time to reconsider my own point of view.
That is good communication. Not a loogie!
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The RESPONSE contained no informational content. What part of "scribbles" escaped you?
Nah, it taught me the valuable and necessary lesson that people who scribble on other people's property (and again, aren't 6 years old) and think it's "communication" or in any way a productive act, are douchebags. While my understanding of douchebags is not yet complete, I thank you for contributing to it.
The response contained plenty of informational content.
Then this person clearly didn't scibble often enough. Perhaps if they had, you'd understand that when you choose to inflict your communications onto the world, the world is free to communicate back negatively (and unproductively) with a well-researched five-thousand word essay on why they disagree with your door quotes or... with a profound and conscise... scribble.
He's either the jackass who did it, or being deliberately dense. Like the aforementioned scribbles, his responses also contain no useful or intelligible content. Sensors recalibrated to filter out noise.
If I see a list of a bunch of uptight, verbose rules posted on a wall somewhere telling me what to do, my first instinct is to think of something subversive. But I wouldn't go and deface the list. I would more likely tape up another piece of paper with a message responding to the list. That's fair game IMO, since nothing is actually damaged.
Kor
Kor
I was thinking about making a similar observation And also wondering about the irony of a situation of how someone who values scribbling as a meaningful form of communication would respond to their own scribbling getting scribbled on. But I think I will bow out of the discussion, choosing not to add anything more, neither useful stuff nor scribbles.
A Random Sampling:
6 There is noooo rule 6
23 Don't tug on Superman's cape
23 Don't spit into the wind.
24 Don't pull the mask of the Ol' Lone Ranger.
35 186,000 mps: It's not just a suggestion.
41 Free admission to those bearing sweet tea.
Hardly uptight and standoffish.
6 There is noooo rule 6
23 Don't tug on Superman's cape
23 Don't spit into the wind.
24 Don't pull the mask of the Ol' Lone Ranger.
35 186,000 mps: It's not just a suggestion.
41 Free admission to those bearing sweet tea.
Hardly uptight and standoffish.
Then why so much monumental butthurt?
In future, read between the scribbles. Learn from life.
If someone trolled my publicly posted list of whatever via defacement and/or annotation I would laugh my ass off.
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