It's pretty irritating seeing the word "Love" in almost every ad, email subject line, TV commercial, billboard etc. these days, I feel it seriously cheapens the most precious Human attribute, hence this poem...
The Love Button
Love that folder?
Love our new "app"?
Love to go shopping
At the "Shop Now" command?
Love that ol' eBay
Love posts, pins and pics
Hardly any left
For all the people we'll miss
That are right here around us
Beside us, in fact
But those who'll co-opt that "Love"
Don't care about that
Sure, "like" turned to "love"
It wasn't strong enough
To make you dig in your pocket
Or push buttons on demand
Is that "Love" for a button
The same as the Family kind?
Or the one that you've cared about
Since the dawn of Time?
The ante was upped
Around 2015
The year Love got drafted
By the Powers that be
Don't let them take it away
Have your own say
'Coz Love belongs to People
Not Products and Profiteers
Okay?
Mike Hoffman's Blog about Art and Life
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Thursday, January 28, 2016
Monday, April 29, 2013
Abandonment & Monsters...
Hey, this Blog has had almost 70,000 page views. Amazing.
Those of you on my mailing list may know that I have dug up and burned the roots of all my comics and fantasy art stuff. Trying to go in new directions while constantly returning to draw "sexy" for some extra money was not working at all. So, it all had to go. And I'm not sorry in the least.
Some people took it hard, as if I'd abandoned them somehow, or they'd been hustled; other got pretty angry and abusive. The latter was an especially good reason to get the hell out.
One thing I did not trash was my Monster U. stuff, in fact I started an Etsy store just for that and have stocked it full of the older items and some new tweaked "remastered" ones.
Monster movies might be called Horror by some, and therefore "bleed" into the Slasher genre, but to me they have always been about Love, and the Monsters represent our desire for it along with our feelings of ugliness or unworthiness. Frankenstein & the Bride, Quasimodo, Erik the Phantom--they are all Love stories.
As upset as some people are with me, finally being free of obligations to the Past is real liberation.
Those of you on my mailing list may know that I have dug up and burned the roots of all my comics and fantasy art stuff. Trying to go in new directions while constantly returning to draw "sexy" for some extra money was not working at all. So, it all had to go. And I'm not sorry in the least.
Some people took it hard, as if I'd abandoned them somehow, or they'd been hustled; other got pretty angry and abusive. The latter was an especially good reason to get the hell out.
The newest venue for gross monstrosities, Monster Motel
One thing I did not trash was my Monster U. stuff, in fact I started an Etsy store just for that and have stocked it full of the older items and some new tweaked "remastered" ones.
The original, unmodified Monster U. album cover art.
Monster movies might be called Horror by some, and therefore "bleed" into the Slasher genre, but to me they have always been about Love, and the Monsters represent our desire for it along with our feelings of ugliness or unworthiness. Frankenstein & the Bride, Quasimodo, Erik the Phantom--they are all Love stories.
"Big Frankie", the digitally tweaked version of the first Monster U.'s album cover art.
As upset as some people are with me, finally being free of obligations to the Past is real liberation.
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