🐮 Lolcow Jack David Sickenberger / The Cunning Condor - Prudish, Nosy, and Pretentious Cartoonist who Hates WHORES and makes REAL ART

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DirtbagDeluxe said:
I noticed he also uses 'we' more often than not. MULTIPLE SYSTEM WATCH FORCE ASSEMBLE
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Got through this and god damn. I just want to say that from a personal point I really dislike the line he draws in what is and isn't art (or at least art that is of merit). He doesn't like porn, fair enough. It doesn't appeal to everybody nor does it have to. But to completely dismiss it as smut and something to be despised is kind of despicable to me. Whether he likes it or not time and effort is put into any type of art and that should be commended. Just like I think good for him on expressing himself even if it is fairly simplistic, moralistic tripe like Davey & Goliath to me.

The same debate exists in all forms of art and most, if not all, people settle on the fact that there is room for both. The same way hip hop heads can appreciate a contemplative rapper like Nas or Kendrick and still have fun with superficial rap like 2 Chains or Juicy J. He seems to be stuck in the "Everything must be art/deep/whatever" phase most grow out of. I was the same way in my teens.

Hopefully he matures and learns to at least respect the artistic endeavours of others in the future. Considering how he left though I'm starting to doubt he will.

I did mark out reading "cheap pop" though.
 
Alright, I've gone through his dA a bit and found some enlightening journal entries. Keep in mind, none of these have comments. He really enjoys talking to himself.

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This is a little interesting, as the person in question actually wrote up what seems like a response, about a fortnight or so later.

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This thing is apparently a gif of him wagging his fingers at the art-whores or something. You can see the full image here.

He also has some journals where he whines about "4chan trolls", but thats something for next time.
 
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Heavens to Murgatroid, his DA journal is a little treasure trove of lolcow gems.

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The best part? Our young genius artiste has not just ONE, but TWO tumblrs.

Ehehehehehehehe.
 
BriarHeart said:
Heavens to Murgatroid, his DA journal is a little treasure trove of lolcow gems.

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The best part? Our young genius artiste has not just ONE, but TWO tumblrs.

Ehehehehehehehe.
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If Condor wasn't drawing Invader Zim rip-offs, he'd be one of those art students who's in love with being an artist but rarely produces any art.

Actually, that might be exactly what he is.

Pardon me for double-posting, but I found this on their art blog.

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I was scrolling down and I was like "WHOA, HELLO!"
 
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Meowthkip said:
Pardon me for double-posting, but I found this on their art blog.

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I was scrolling down and I was like "WHOA, HELLO!"
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I only draw sex stuff when it suits me but i'll condemn anyone else that does it because they get more attention for it.

Literally most of his art is him pandering for attention and being upset that nobody gives him the attention he deserves. He has two NP comics about not getting attention and 1 that tries to sell a joke with sex.
 
Also found this pompous screed:

Today I decided to take a visit to the Cultural Arts Center downtown. I used to take their summer activities as a kid. I liked it there, and I suppose I still do. But it seems to suffer the same issue that a large amount of other art facilities tend to. I browsed around the many galleries they had open and found myself to be mostly disappointed.
Granted there were a certain few pieces that I did like, but much of what I saw was the stuff of sellouts. It seemed as if every other piece hung on the wall was unimaginative, rushed, and overpriced. A lot of it felt more like a showcase of “look what I did” rather than art that was meant to be pondered upon or require the imagination of the viewer. Five thousand dollars for a solid orange run hung on the wall seemed quite off-putting to me.
It has always puzzled me how thoughtless blotches of random colors framed on a wall earned acclaim despite the obvious lack of imagination put into it. Nothing could be gathered from these sorts of pieces. They serve no purpose other than to occupy space on a wall. Then I started noticing that certain pieces were grouped together under the artist’s name.
Evidently, it doesn’t matter what the artist themselves came up with. If their name is attached to the piece, it must be valuable. For example, if some random child were to make a mediocre in a notebook, it would be deemed worthless. However, if it was, say, Kandinsky who was the child, it’d be worth millions. This worries me as an artist. It seems the art community is more interested in the artist, not so much in the art itself.
This is why I admire people like Albert C. Barnes. He didn’t care about who the artist was. He only cared about the piece itself and how valuable he deemed the piece. Not how valuable the price tag says. He even went so far as to refer to many museum collections as “a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution.”
So many modern artists are so focused on this idea of making money off their artwork that the first opportunity they get to make thousands off a single piece has them forcing themselves to create lackluster pieces in a rush in order to make their next dollar. This exemplifies how little they care about the potential they have and how little respect they have for their artistic capabilities.
Then there are the artists who earn fame and fortune despite their lack of imagination. Artists who earn acclaim from landscapes or portraits. Yes, landscapes and whatnot do require artistic skill, but there’s pretty much zero thought put into them. It’s simplistic cut and paste from nature. Sure, they can serve as good practice but they shouldn’t be the type of thing that gets in a museum.
The idea of visual art is to express your unique perceptions and thoughts to those who view the piece. This is why I admire artists such as Picasso, Escher, and Alex Grey. They don’t rely on the laws of reality. They defy them by twisting the common man’s perspective through imaginative paintings of that which cannot simply be seen in the world.
So again, it boggles my mind how a traditional painting of a field with a few tress here and there is hung in a museum and coveted by the art community, while a digital painting of a fantastical landscape is left to be critiqued by Internet geeks. More often than not, whenever I visit a museum, I’m never artistically or imaginatively motivated. All I see are bland and random pieces done by pretentious brush strokers working only for money.
They say art is subjective, but I feel that if people truly believed this, we’d have more variety in our museums. I honestly do feel kind of depressed when I remember that I have better luck finding pieces I like on the Internet than the museums. Especially given the fact that a large amount of the online art community is corrupted by possible basement dwellers uploading drawings of porn for a living.
As a cartoonist, it’s very difficult for me to find a fit environment that my art, added on with my potentially radical views on the medium, can feel it belongs. Cartoonists have a decent time on the web, but most communities on the web are mindless and objectifying, even. Museums see cartooning as “low art” despite most comic strips having more creativity put into them than a bland self-portrait. So, I’m kind of stuck in between here.
If we started focusing more on the individual pieces rather than focus on how big the artist’s name is, we may find our galleries to be far more colorful. Art isn’t about fame or setting a high price on your name. It’s about expressing your thoughts, your emotions, your mind in a way that can be communicated through to the viewer. It’s one the most effective ways of two minds directly communicating their exact thoughts. But it’s sad to see these sorts of things stapled to a price tag and reduced to decorations on a wall. I want visits to the museum to be fuel for the imagination. Not a shopping spree for home decor.

Update: Turned this in for my college art class. Got me a 98. Did not expect that. Figured this outta piss any art professor off. Guess the webheads really are mentally degraded. Go fig.
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This drivel was an assignment.

Good Lord.
 
Meowthkip said:
Also found this pompous screed:


This drivel was an assignment.

Good Lord.
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So basically he just dismissed the whole abstract Expressionism movement that consumed the 50's and 60's. If he had even and ounce of the life experience of Rothko he would know that even though no picture was made in this series it was normally to inspire an emotion. Rothko during his last series was trying to make people uncomfortable so he would use darker shades (specifically red). This goes to show that he doesn't have any respect for artist who aren't him.
 
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Connor the Condor apparently has a raging hate-on for something called "SSMB." A lightning round of Google-Fu reveals it to be the Sonic Stadium Message Board, a forum dedicated to every autist's favorite blue-armed hedgehog. And who do we have here!

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Here's the search results for his username on the forum. There aren't too many pinpointed results, but I did manage to sniff out this thread where Connor the Condor (aka "no one") showcases his skills of an artist.

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Apparently he also plays a lot of TF2 on Steam. Hey Connor Condor, what's your favorite class? Is it Sniper? I bet it's Sniper.
 
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Meowthkip said:
Granted there were a certain few pieces that I did like, but much of what I saw was the stuff of sellouts. It seemed as if every other piece hung on the wall was unimaginative, rushed, and overpriced.
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For a moment, I thought it was someone discussing Condor's art.

I maybe late on saying this. For a guy that uses the same screen name everywhere, that is not cunning thing to do.
 
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The Cunning Condor said:
Forgive me for this, but you sound a little overthinky and worry warty here.
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Fucking up basic anatomy: deep artistic meaning, you just don't get it get man. I don't produce art I make mind puzzles for psychonauts.

Comic expressing crude misogyny: why are you over thiiiiiinking this?

The Cunning Condor said:
I'm just not quite fond of having my sexuality or my gender pried into. Not everyone can be easily explained.
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Then how about you don't bring it up in a clumsy attempt to deflect the very accurate accusations of sexism? It wasn't an issue until you made it one.
 
Kittentits said:
I go and take a nap after a day of classes and come back to all these journals. I wanted to give the kid another chance but the attitude that he has. Fuck that.

By the way. I realized his avatar of himself is a complete rip off of The Observer from TribeTwelve, a Slenderman series on YouTube. http://theslenderman.wikia.com/wiki/The_Observer

EDIT found this "self portrait" he did. I wonder what this is possibly based on... http://thecunningcondor.deviantart.com/art/Self-Portrait-504516108
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Of course it's a Marble Hornets reference. Of course it is.

Going over the art thread on that Sonic Stadium forum, his art is amateurish but shows promise. His problem is that when he's given some really valuable advice...

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... he falls back on excuses so he doesn't have to leave his comfort zone.

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Granted, taken alone this could be shrugged off. I have been in very dire emotional straits where criticism on my work just stings and gets me right in the chest, but combined with his blustering about how he is a TRUE MISUNDERSTOOD ARTIST and people who draw art to appeal to people are ART HOOKERS, it's just amusing to me.

More confirmation that he wants to talk the talk, but can't walk the walk when it comes to art.
 
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