Engineers tend to get trapped between their calipers. They need to look holistically at the entire package. They need to play with things and think about their meaning and purpose. They need to analyze their decisions in the context of the human experience. They need to be free to experiment without technical restraints so they can push against the boundaries of what’s “possible”. Art is fast and fun. Design is smotth and calculated.

This guy is the perfect example. He gets this “great idea”, mills up a giant block of aluminum, spends 10 days faffing around, then throws it in the bin and starts over. Dude needs to sketch some shit and play with cardboard and clay and get his thoughts together before running to spin up his favorite tool.

Perhaps I can back too harsh, but I hear that response anytime I bring up art in front of engineers. It isn’t funny, is mainly lies and is meant to denegrate the whole occupation of art. If you’re an artist hold the standard higher please.

I think they ran a can of spam through the potato peeler.

No, I’ve only ever heard things like that in a comedy sketch making fun of art. I guess I went to a better art school than you. Was your award given by journalists or artists?

• none of those things you said were criticisms, they were all commands. That would never get said at an art school because they couldn’t give 2 shits what you hand in because it’s all about how you defend your bullshit art in a critique.

Tell me you’ve never taken an art course without telling me you’ve never taken an art course by being a condescending prick

Good lesson plan. Then make them take some art and design courses.

They can’t have anyone incompetent in that seat, space is how they plan to grift the next trillion dollars.

You’re right. I know several youtubers who subsist on hate views. Shit, look at 5 minute crafts.

It may start at breasts if members of the Itty Bitty Titty Committee are around.

He seems like the kinda guy who spends a lot of time trying to kiss his own ass. This is probably just his disappointment after trying.

They’d probably rather talk to the robot.

My buddy is an accomplished self taught violin maker. He won an award and was talking to another renowned violin maker who asked him where he was taught. He was slightly embarrassed to say he was self taught but she was quite impressed and said “Ahh! The slow way!”

I hustle my skills at recovering furniture. I’m an upholstwhore.

This is a world filled with humans and we are all humans.

We’re all one race on this planet, we all burp and fart and thats the way God planned it

Slow is smooth, smooth is fast

That sounds like an excellent place to start.

I’m sure we can find some middle ground between nothing and shoot-the-place-up.

or to do something really gross to keep the stuff in their digestive track longer.

Looking at you, rabbits.

You’d be shocked what they allow to be called leather. I expect the environmental impact of leather is far worse than the production of vinyl. Tanning is pretty nasty.

We used to stand on either side of the street and pretend to pull a rope across the road. When cars stopped we’d run away.