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Published: 2005-02-04 12:06:08 +0000 UTC; Views: 1646; Favourites: 29; Downloads: 163
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Nonsense...3 n's
2 s's
2 e's
and one big O.
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Thanks!
Coming from a fellow writer, it's that much more meaningful.
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I've been admiring this since before I had a DA account, and now I can finally add it to my favourites!
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i'm really digging this... very nice work. the concept and execution are both great, and i love your avatar too. Good stuff!
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oranges
hands
trees
are my favourite things.
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Hhhmm, very graphic. It's interesting, I'm so used to seeing contemporary advertising done in similar ways, I keep trying to read it like an ad without a product. Like the way an ad peresents you with one core idea, say something like an ideal lifestyle, and the way of attaining it is this big O that you come to realize it's just nonsense. But it's hard to let go of the image, and think of it as nonsense.
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absolutely brilliant! it's wonderful; I love your style
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is cute
makes me think of the safe sex campaigns
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This is a good piece. I suggest you work on it a bit more and make it more special.
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Playing with words is something I\'m always interested in/impressed by...and this one sure catches my attention 
Brilliant work on \'O\' and the splash of watercolors around it. The twig/tree\'s perspective brings a breaking 3rd dimension to the creation...which is extremely attractive to me..its like standing back and looking at the word \"nonsense\" and realizing its one beautiful set of letters.
But I somehow feel the hand has a bit awkward anatomy - the elbow joint looks a little out of shape - the back side of the elbow wouldn\'t show with that position of the hand/fingers - a painful twist 
I\'m faving it - concepts worth getting inspired from - worth being in mind at all times. Keep it up...are you on my devwatch
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Your non sense makes quite a sense to me. great work
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i much prefer constructing the impulsive absurdities that endlessly entertain my inner child
instead of deconstructing them, as they generally collapse into unenlightened fragments on inspection.
i suppose much the same as a word losing its meaning once the letters that make it up are no longer in proper form.
the inky marks make me salivate.
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Couldn't agree with you more.
As I read the first line of your comment, I immediately thought of you working on 'moonlight cab' and 'struggles'. Two extreme expressions of your inner child.
Those inky marks are actually tea stains that creeped into the frame (I left my sneakily dripping mug on it).
All absurd, all good.
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it becomes so much more clear witht he words, they add so much.
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a nonsensical jumble of words i tell you...
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eve reaching for ur apple..
nonsense person she is.
*taps her on the head*
cheers as usual!
:blx
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Nice and original in a sort of new type of collage... Its a good mix for a design 
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please stop amazing me!
love that tree..
love it love it love it..
im gointa imitate!
i dont think i can..
but ive got a tree like that in my gallery and its called tree..
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thats a pretty seewt water color.
you should continue with that medium... it would be a pity to loose that skill.
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It is really great!
and I do agree with *annejulie that it's a graphic-poetry!
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wow, this is great. one of my favorites from you thus far.
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that one got @$*&'e up... here it is: π: 0 β©: 0
Main Entry: anΒ·tiΒ·sense
Pronunciation: 'an-"tI-"sen(t)s, 'an-ti-
Function: adjective
Etymology: anti- + nonsense
: having a complementary sequence to a segment of genetic material (as mRNA) and serving to inhibit gene function < antisense nucleotides>
hmmm.... here's what antisense ictionary& va=antisense&x=24&y=5/">means . I was surprised too...
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I am green with envy of your graphic design talents! I love it, like I love all of your stuff..the layout is wonderful... the only thing that I dislike about the piece is how the hand and arm is blurry...if it was sharper, I think it would match better with the rest of the picture.
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i know... bad scan.
Its easy to rectify, and I will one of these days. Feel free to kick my ass for me in a month or so if i haven't gotten around to it...
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wow love it ...great ...first thing which is nonsense but make a complete sense to me or maybe not
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That ..... oh, wow. I love it. It seems like an image out of Alice in Wonderland ... all the creativity and life that can spring out of nonsense. Would you mind if I printed this out and hung it up in my room?
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I wouldn't mind at all! As long as it's only for your house...
And thanks... it is a compliment that people want my stuff on their walls!
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Of course it's only for the house. Though if I could afford prints, you can bet I'd be buying them.
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I like the movement. The branch is a nice addition...gives it a spark of color and life.
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thanks for noticing. It is nonsensical to have an entire tree as a twig, isn't it?!
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You are by far the smartest artist on my watch. Everything you do is so clever and unique. I really admire your style. Most of the time when I'm on the computer, surfing or whatever, I feel like I'm getting dumber, but looking at your art makes me think and I thank you for that. Keep on doing what you're doing.
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I'm not sure how much I understood of this, as I am in quite a stupid mood today. But what I did understand (and enjoy) was the way in which I read it over and over, trying to figure any 'deep' connotations in your description, and then eventually realised you were just showing the word for what it is.
It's like when you say a word out loud so many times it becomes nonsensical. Or if you concentrate on anything, for that matter - I remember searching for a something in the dictionary and suddenly realising how absurd the letter 'b' looks.
Which, after reading rian's comments, is pretty much what he felt. Also I am flattered that you guessed I would find this.
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you couldn't be stupid even if you tried.
The reason I was sure the two of you would get it is because you both write. And because you do, you know that words, sometimes are just that. A stringing together of alphabets devoid of any deeper significance or nuance.
The 'Stop reading into it so much' statment is such good advice sometimes.
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i've often wondered as to the meaning of words. on one hand they carry huge performative significance, each word possesing the possibility to far outweigh a thousand actions; on the other hand they're just scrawled lines and gutteral sounds, most of them meaningless.
changing the subject: damn, but that's a fine avatar. seriously, that little shape is going to have its own fan club soon.
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I think this one is going to be around for a while too... its definitely my favourite one so far...
And if I stop using it- you can have it!
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I love the way your mind works. This piece reminds me of so much--a song, a web-comic, French Kiss, and the emotions of hope and despair, to name a few.
Yet another excellent piece of work from you.
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quite interesting - love the depiction how we always reach out for them
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and the nod to Derrida and deconconstructionism. how you (and the sexy arm) toss deconstructionism to the wind; what a frightful academic mistake Derrida made w/ deconstructionism.
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and the handwritten nonsense! i want to chew on the hand that wrote it.
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