Danny

youhaven’tuseditinawaywhereitsdirectlyabusinganyonesoIsuspectyou’resafe

Where did you say cunt the second time? I only saw the first cunt. Oh wait, there it is, the 2nd cunt. Oh, I said it three times. Does that mean that the cunt fairy will pop out my arse? Don’t worry darling Danny. I echo your sentiments. At one stage I was jeopardising my day job to hang out on here. Now I struggle to even bother checking it for weeks at a time. I’m going to blame the astral cycle or something ridiculously esoteric because as Ammonia once said “You’re not the only one who feels this way”. Even my comments have become less and less insane and ridiculous. Here, have this. I found it today and it made me want to go break something, rearrange the pieces into a collage, take a photo and then tear the photo up into confetti which makes me giggle and dance like bacon on a frypan waiting to have sex with avocado and pepper.

najeroux

Oh and I love you in a non creepy way.

najeroux

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – community doesn’t scale.
RB got too big, splintered into interest groups out of necessity, and suddenly like-minded people are boring the shit out of each other with their like minds. Damned if you do, damned if you don’t though.

Eh. Never stick your dick in the forums. It’ll get bitten off. Too many people blaming admin. Anyone ever thought the common factor is themselves?

:-)

I wonder sometimes… why it is that so often, people’s sense of happiness needs to be blamed on external factors?

every person from the planet cunt who believe stress and complaining is the norm. Old and young alike and they seem to infect each other with more of this poison every day, another is the state that members of Red Bubble have made Red bubble become.

I could be wrong… but are you not infecting right now? Wouldn’t that make you just another inhabitant of the planet cunt? :)

Grown ups are crap. If you become one I’ll be most unimpressed.

najeroux

and I’m sorry you’re feeling that your happy folk have left town. I hope you welcome them home soon with open arms :)

I’m almost reluctant to write a piss-taking journal about the recent events – almost. ;)

This post makes me sad. But I’ll still post pictures of retro robots and write community journals about things that hopefully inspire people. If anyone ever has any suggestions for anything I personally can do to make it better, or more fun, or more interesting, you know where the link to my bubblemail is. But please don’t use it to complain or tell me where we’re going wrong. That kind of stuff comes at us from all directions all the time. It’s not that I’m not open to criticism and complaint but I like to keep my own personal bubblemail for the really positive, inspiring, personal interaction stuff. As an artist, I’m here for the ideas, inspiration, action, sharing and entertainment … I crave things that will make me better at what I enjoy and I love sharing this stuff with people that I know will just ‘get it’. I wish there was way more of that kind of activity floating about.

Once there was a little house
And in that house was Fred
Fred did a little dance
And suddenlt fell down dead

I’ll add one more thing. If everyone who has read this post made a pact to write something utterly cool, awesome, interesting or entertaining in their journal in the next few days then went and interacted with others who’d done the same then we’d be on our way to improving things. We do have the power to change things. It just takes people to get behind an idea … and to act.

well said Nat. It’s not wrong for us as a community to crave nothing but positive, personal and inspiring interaction. Others may think it boring or complacent.. but I for one do not.

Then in this state his house did wobble
For down the chimney flew an awful squabble
The suabble tried to find a mate
And found thank christ it was all too late

✔

The lateness sat amidst the rubble
And marvelled at the blood and trouble
It ate a seed left by the masses
Cause one sole seed puts fire in assess

The fire stired fierce, the din it pierced
Farting, bellowing blowing out gasses
Till one fine day its own arse it seared
And thought my lord lets blame the bosses

Nobecausepeoplewhoknowyouwouldexpectnothingless.

It is a sad but well documented fact that forums evolve and devolve and change. The Redbubble we have now is not the same as the RB we had in the beginning. In no way can management or admin be faulted for this – it is the dynamics of the humans that ebb and flow through the site. In the beginning, there were but a handful and it was small and you knew everyone and you could not help but be inspired and challenged. Now, with the site so large – it’s not the same, it’s just not possible.

I miss the Danny/Scott/sjem/Lucan battles of wit, art and words that used to push, prod and provoke me to keep up …..

But I”m not going away – I’m just waiting for the ebb to flow again …. because it surely will.

Just one more point after reading Pip’s post above. Positive interaction doesn’t always have to be hearts and flowers and group hugs. I like edgy. I like clever. I like being challenged. Inspiration for me is that feeling that you want to grab something and run with it. That you want to be better or smarter or more prolific. Inspiration isn’t sitting here on the couch feeling good about myself then going and making a cup of tea and doing nothing about it. But some people (me included) need an environment where they can feel brave enough to act and brave enough to go ‘look, I acted and this is what I came up with’ ...

I am also a pathetic office working grown up. Shit.

Naj are you still my friend?? Can’t you stir things up again Nolan?? Don’t just walk away!

Thank you for being able to put that into words Nat – it’s what I was trying to say …......

Danny, mate, You know we`ve been through some shit here, some fun shit, some amazingly insipring shit, some insipid, make-you-want-to-kick-a-puppy shit, and we`re all still here.

We ARE a community, not necesarily bound together by geography, but bound together by shared ideas, and the desire to make something of them. Others have other ideas, and Rb being the place it is, there`s room for that, but just like the really, real community outside your door, you don`t have to be a part of that if you choose not to. Some people dig Country, some people dig Hip-hop, but I can`t worry about either of them, because I`m a reggae man.

See, what I`m trying to say is, I know what I`m doing here, I won`t be swayed by current opinion, and I won`t let that same current opinion affect my judgement on this place. This place is mine, I have fun, use, creatively feed, and be fed apon here. All by my own choice.

I see people here in this thread that I greatly appreciate and admire, so here I`ll stay, I see other threads, filled with bile, and I shoot right on by.

But really, I dig ART, I dig seeing peoples brains firing up, pushing themselves, seeing people whos brains have fired up and are pushing themselves find a voice and a niche in the world..It`s some of the finest stuff humanity has to offer, and it`s here if you look, sometimes even if you don`t.

I`m a rambler eh? haha! But I`m allowed, and I`m sure you`ll forgive me. I have no real point, but maybe that dosen`t matter. And shit, up until I started writing this, I`ve been drawing up your googles for the next in the series.. Inspiration.. it`s a strange thing, and so are we.

well, i’m still a relative noobie, so i don’t know what it is was like when it was ‘good’. and i had no idea people were complaining, or that there was anything wrong with it now. what’s wrong with redbubble? who’s complaining? and what should i be comparing it to?

i’m having fun with it. and i’m enjoying a lot of good art.

sorry you’re not!

i ate my cat

have you tried masturbation? or is it that you are bored with that.

for me it peaked with ARSE. i don’t know if anyone remembers ARSE. I don’t know if anyone cares. but if ever there was a group on redbubble that resembled that dodgy slave trading bar in starwars, then it was indeed ARSE. ARSE made redbubble exciting, a place worth logging on to. not a day went by when i wouldn’t slip into ARSE, silently, or otherwise. ARSE caught my imagination and lost me quite a few clients, but it was worth it, because ARSE was what the bubble was all about. or what it should have been all about.

nowadys there is nothing but the ‘camel toe group’ to entertain me. let’s om.

http://www.redbubble.com/groups/even-toed-ungulates-mammals

@mister khan (and others with an interest in ARSE) – my RB excitement levels were frequently peaked due to an involvement in ARSE, too, however masturbation wasn’t a factor in arriving at that point. I can only speak for myself, mister khan, but it’s obvious you gained a great deal of knowledge and enlightenment from reading my input in ARSE. Not surprising, and thanks for your subliminal thoughts which are contained in your post. I’m off to service a few clients.

Oh, I forgot to say – funt.

i joined ARSE only at it’s arse-end. sad to say. I chortled a lot, but it was clear it was over even before i arrived. Oh well. Off to find a good dog recipe now…

It goes up, it goes down…but it still goes. But weekends really are the shit. I need to find more time to make art…actually time to upload art as well.

There’s a few months to go before Christmas. So, I might spend some time in my workshop and craft a piece, and then deliver it when (nearly) everyone’s feeling jolly, or feeling themself – if you know what I mean. Sure hope the Global RedBubble Crisis is over by then.

Hey – should have added the link to the tshirt I made you!!

Hey – should have finished the post….... doesn’t it look just like rainbow vomit?? :)

Am I too late to add my two cents worth?
I’ve been taking a back step for my own reasons of being unhappy with what I’ve been coming up with, though I’ve been obsessed with water drops lately, sounds boring to most I know, but I’ve been really enjoying it and I guess I would never have bothered had I not been inspired from being here.
Anyway, I’m hoping this change of focus will bring the unexpected of something else, if that makes sense…
Also, my thoughts on RB and it’s change has probably already been noted above, but I tend to think of it as that sunday roast that you just loved and eagerly went back for seconds, now turning to a delicious smorgasbord to better cater for the masses. The thing is with a smorgasbord, my taste buds get confused and I’m never sure what it is I feel like…
Still, RB is a wonderful restaurant and I always get hungry.
The forums(to me) are like brussel sprouts, bitter and hard to swallow if not cooked properly!

I wasn’t going to add anything here till Mr Khan or Lord Lucan did.
Now Mr Khan has the cunt so I’ll have to.

Nah. Fuck it. I’ll wait till I here from the Lord himself.