I hate the media. Can we stop calling them news organizations because they're not really in the news business anymore. They're out there to make money like any other business and they do it by sensationalizing anything they think will bring traffic to their website. Do you know they can't be sued for liable for what they write in a headline as long as they tell the whole story below? But how many people actually read the story! A lot of people will only see the headline and take it at face value.
Then there's the added problem of how over reactionary people are. If there's a school shooting than everyone freaks out and loses their minds running off to buy their kids bullet proof back packs, but an average of 30 people die everyday in the US from being shot. Over 50 more kill themselves everyday using a gun. That's not to say school shootings aren't tragic, but why focus on that and ignore all the other information?
After 9/11 around 10 % of Americans were actually afraid of being killed by a terrorist. What! Two thousand people died in a nation of 300 million and now there's real paranoia over being killed by a terrorist? If 2,000 people died every year from a terrorist attack that would still only put your odds at 1 in 150,000. That's a .000006% chance of being killed by a terrorist and that's only IF 2,000 people were actually killed every year in America. But getting killed while driving your car, well those odds are MUCH higher and I don't think anyone's terrified by that. Heart attack? Who cares, give me that double bacon cheeseburger. Stranger danger? Kids are 3 times more likely to get struck by lightning than they are at being kidnapped by a stranger. Humans are so irrational I don't even know what to think sometimes. And the stupid fucking media with their over sensationalized news is not helping in the least. Perspective is something everyone needs a healthy dose of.
Then there's the added problem of how over reactionary people are. If there's a school shooting than everyone freaks out and loses their minds running off to buy their kids bullet proof back packs, but an average of 30 people die everyday in the US from being shot. Over 50 more kill themselves everyday using a gun. That's not to say school shootings aren't tragic, but why focus on that and ignore all the other information?
After 9/11 around 10 % of Americans were actually afraid of being killed by a terrorist. What! Two thousand people died in a nation of 300 million and now there's real paranoia over being killed by a terrorist? If 2,000 people died every year from a terrorist attack that would still only put your odds at 1 in 150,000. That's a .000006% chance of being killed by a terrorist and that's only IF 2,000 people were actually killed every year in America. But getting killed while driving your car, well those odds are MUCH higher and I don't think anyone's terrified by that. Heart attack? Who cares, give me that double bacon cheeseburger. Stranger danger? Kids are 3 times more likely to get struck by lightning than they are at being kidnapped by a stranger. Humans are so irrational I don't even know what to think sometimes. And the stupid fucking media with their over sensationalized news is not helping in the least. Perspective is something everyone needs a healthy dose of.
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any person who knows how to write with their hands legibly can learn how to draw what they see in front of them realistically.
modern art usurped the previous school of art, that essentially trained people how to draw with realism. Absinthe popularity in europe resulted in impressionism, pointilism, and so on. political art by Picasso and so on made a move against religion and government, abstraction followed.
but you?
you can learn how to draw a sketch of the random junk on your desk where it's in proportion.
it just requires proper education. it's not like artistic ability is a magical gift from some greek muse. it's like music, wtf....
reminds me of the media.