The Cumin Clump

All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it. - David Hume Here is my proposal; we perform the various aesthetic activities of perception and investigation for the sake of our involvement in the activity of seeking correct judgements, rather than for the sake of actually having made correct judgements. - C. Thi Nguyen CJ The X: Visual Essay “Subjectivity in Art” https://youtu.be/GPrNWuppMcc?si=JFPqj168CYsr2P8E I’ve watched this video like five times, it’s a fantastic essay on how art critique works and where it fails depending on the critic’s philosophy. The essay covers A LOT. CJ is a very fast talker and jumps straight into their ideas from the start of the video. Beginning with a discussion of what their opinion of “review” versus “critique” is, and what they consider to be valid reasoning for negative critiques. They also talk about how “taste” works, citing David Hume and Anthony Fantano. ...

     This is what I wrote regarding horror video games, specifically related to the game Silent Hill (1999) and the book Silent Hill: The Terror Engine by Bernard Perron.      Throughout the entire game, we can see, hear, and infer many classic horror tropes. An overwhelming fog blankets the quiet town, our character walks through and sees someone, but only for a moment before they run away and disappear into the mist. The eerie music keeps us uncomfortable company as we explore an alleyway, seemingly in an attempt to follow the person we saw before. Immediately upon entering the alleyway, we are met with the completely eviscerated carcass of what looks to be a large animal. But with the human imagination, combined with the general atmosphere of the game, we could draw the conclusion that it was not just some wild animal. Then, we find an overturned wheelchair, wheels still spinning with no sign of stopping or even slowing down. Was someone just here? Was i...

There's no easy way to say this: WordPress will never work the way you want it to. Nor the way your instructors want it to. It crashes all the time, it's buggy, and for some reason it's still our main way to submit work in the Fine Arts program. So here's a super bare-bones way to succeed in WordPress without really trying. 1. Do all of your edits straight from the page itself. Doing things from the dashboard is stress-inducing and scary. Find your post, select "Edit Post" on the top menu bar. 2. Adding things to your post: You can add so many things, but WordPress has preferences. When you click on the little plus sign in your post, click "Browse All". Anytime you add something, the section is called a "block". You can change what kind of block you've added by clicking on the icon on the far left of the popup bar for that block. The popup bar for paragraph blocks. Paragraphs are the default block type, so any time you press enter you...

HEY YOU. YOU'RE A FUCKING ART STUDENT AREN'T YOU. yeah i thought so. 🧑🏻‍💻 Basically, this blog is a culmination of years of suffering needlessly at the hands of the art school gods and we want to spare you the same torture. Everything is sorted by course and you can search topics and subjects using the search bar at the top of the site. thoughts and prayers. <3

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