Profile for PiNKlePuNKin - I'm not boring.

PiNKlePuNKin aka niki is a 26.77 year old girl, has been a member since March 8, 2007, has scored 420 submissions, giving an average score of 1.36, helping 5 designs get printed.

Mar 20 '07 by PiNKlePuNKin
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I'm not boring.

Hey I'm not boring. I'm a friendly critic and a college graduate as of May. So :P

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iPear on Mar 20 '07 at 10:38pm

oh, cool.

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care to get blazed yo!?

HOLL AHOLALDD,.

PiNKlePuNKin on Mar 21 '07 at 1:32am

blazed? what does that mean.

Frank Vice on Mar 21 '07 at 1:33am

lol

exoticrobotic on Mar 21 '07 at 1:33am

critic of what

Frank Vice on Mar 21 '07 at 1:35am

im guessing... movies. shes too skinny to be a food critic

PiNKlePuNKin on Mar 21 '07 at 1:37am

I checked out blazed on urbandictionary. Not interested but thanks for asking, pear.

guys - I'm a professional art and literature critic. I'm also an economist, but not the type you associate with dry heaves.

Frank Vice on Mar 21 '07 at 1:38am

hmm, guess i was wrong

Kerrn on Mar 21 '07 at 1:38am

let's get maized

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-k.

PiNKlePuNKin on Mar 21 '07 at 1:40am

I'm also not skinny

Frank Vice on Mar 21 '07 at 1:46am

i apologize for classifying you incorrectly

PiNKlePuNKin on Mar 21 '07 at 1:54am

it was the fact that you tried to classify me in the first place.

kidding. no worries

spires on Mar 21 '07 at 2:00am

what school of economics do you associate with?

PiNKlePuNKin on Mar 21 '07 at 2:02am

my own... its currently a medley of deep ecology, personal conservativism, social liberalism, loosely marxist based, moderation.

spires on Mar 21 '07 at 2:05am

that's not economics, but a grab bag of stuff

economics is a science

PiNKlePuNKin on Mar 21 '07 at 2:06am

uh oh. well, perhaps I shouldn't have put it that way.

instead, ask a specific question, I'll try to answer it. trying to organize my economic thoughts fails, I suppose...

J-Ray on Mar 21 '07 at 2:06am

how can you be a "professional critic" at 21?

PiNKlePuNKin on Mar 21 '07 at 2:08am

According to the American Heritage Dictionary, a professional is one who is: Having or showing great skill; expert.

spires on Mar 21 '07 at 2:10am

I thought the difference between a pro and an amateur, is that the pro gets paid.

spires on Mar 21 '07 at 2:11am

explain value.

PiNKlePuNKin on Mar 21 '07 at 2:12am

I think it is more based on experience. Who says I don't get paid to critique? Not all pay is monetary and not all pay is given by others. :)

PiNKlePuNKin on Mar 21 '07 at 2:13am

value is an assigned measure of thought.

spires on Mar 21 '07 at 2:16am

I didn't say whether you were paid or not, but just drew a distinction. From your definition, anyone is both an amateur and a professional -- given the lack of objective distinctions between skill levels.

So someone who gets paid a boatload of cash for writing ho-hum crap is not a professional? Who is the gatekeeper of excellence?

sonmi on Mar 21 '07 at 2:16am

oh man, the gatekeeper of excellence...

this blog is way too thoughtful for 2:16 am!

spires on Mar 21 '07 at 2:16am

explain further: where does value originate?

J-Ray on Mar 21 '07 at 2:17am

Well I should rephrase my question then. What qualifies you as an expert art critic? I'm not trying to be confrontational, just curious.

PiNKlePuNKin on Mar 21 '07 at 2:18am

These things are perception based. I love the "gatekeeper of excellence" wording. It should be made into a tee design...

spires on Mar 21 '07 at 2:21am

I'm still thinking that professionals get paid, because that is an objective difference from someone who does not get paid, thereby making a distinction, and justifying the very term 'professional' itself.

Are you familiar with argumentation ethics?

Thanks for the compliment! Also, I'm curious, not confrontational.

PiNKlePuNKin on Mar 21 '07 at 2:21am

Confrontational or curious, it's all good, J-Ray.

I simply qualified myself. Basically, we are all on here with the capacity to score others' designs. I consider myself an expert because my comments stem from a pool of experience in critiquing. :)

Spires - In reference to your new question, I stand by my current statement, these things are perception based.

PiNKlePuNKin on Mar 21 '07 at 2:22am

I've never heard the term "argumentation ethics". I too am curious, so explain if you wish.

J-Ray on Mar 21 '07 at 2:22am

Have you written for anything outside of Threadless, as in... critic for a school newspaper, anything like that?

...i think i like pinklepunkin...

J-Ray on Mar 21 '07 at 2:23am

i like spires too

J-Ray on Mar 21 '07 at 2:23am

but not in that way haha

spires on Mar 21 '07 at 2:24am

Perceptions are not objective or evident, but only believed in. Therefore that basis alone could not justify the existence of professionalism, which is by its nature, an externally derived state.

You could perceive red sparkly fairies are the jam on toast, but I could never believe that perception, or ever verify that it was your perception at all.

PiNKlePuNKin on Mar 21 '07 at 2:26am

Most of the class settings I've been in are conducive to, and often call for, critiquing of each others' ideas (in economics or otherwise) and written work (in whatever subject). Also I'm an art advocate, so I spend a lot of time with that. I'm not an artist, however, so you will probably never see designs for tees on here by me. I wrote for my college newspaper one semester, but I was bored with it. Other than that, I blog now and then, but nothing much substantial. Thanks for asking.

MeLa de Gypsie on Mar 21 '07 at 2:29am

hahaha... can I complete that title for you... I thought it was a little funny... and also can apply to me...

I am not boring, but I don't have a life.

PiNKlePuNKin on Mar 21 '07 at 2:30am

Spires, I never said (nor thought) that anyone here should have to believe anything I say. But thanks for considering it.

The external, perhaps, is derived from the internal.

I was under the impression that jam was the red sparkling dust, not the pixies themselves... ;) kidding

J-Ray on Mar 21 '07 at 2:34am

spires, if we haven't had enough toast with jam designs lately, that would have been a good one =)

I think a professional and amateur are defined by their practices as well as expertise, regardless of whether you are paid or not. A professional who does some work for free is still a professional, to use a counterexample.

J-Ray on Mar 21 '07 at 2:35am

Oh spires!!! I gotta go see how those subs of your scored....

spires on Mar 21 '07 at 2:39am

J-ray, your definition still lacks a distinction that justifies the existence of professionalism. It may not be the act of receiving payment, but some differentiator must be proposed, that is objective, to justify the claim.

In so far as the man is not being paid, he is not acting as a professional, but rather as something else. Perhaps an amateur, or a fool; but not as a professional. Maybe you can suggest some other objectively evident differentiator than being paid.

spires on Mar 21 '07 at 2:43am

Pinkle, I wouldn't suggest that you wish others to believe you, but rather creating an example to illustrate that, perceptions are not proof and do not offer distinctions, and therefore cannot be the stuff of definition.

your name is cute!

PiNKlePuNKin on Mar 21 '07 at 2:44am

I should think more before impulsive word choices like "professional"...

I also never expected anyone to happen upon my threadless blog. I basically signed up to vote for a good friend. then I checked my profile to find a standard threadless statement for people who have no blogs etc. this motivated me to make impulsive word choices just to throw something on the canvas and shoo the threadless statement away...

TastesLikeGrandpa on Mar 21 '07 at 2:45am

Hey fancy girl art critic. You think you're better than us just cause you have never passed out with a cherry popsicle in your ass and then woken up hungover not remembering the popsicle thinking that you were suffering from rectal bleeding? Well....keep sitting on your throne in the tall tower, Missy! You can't call yourself no art critic till you look at my masterpieces I've created for this unworthy site.

So what are ya waitin' for? Go have a look see!

PiNKlePuNKin on Mar 21 '07 at 2:45am

what, then, can be the stuff of definition? :)

spires on Mar 21 '07 at 2:45am

I enjoy this sort of dialogue. Do you feel attacked?

spires on Mar 21 '07 at 2:46am

Grandpa is the new bananaphone, but with a wrinkly bulge in the crotch

PiNKlePuNKin on Mar 21 '07 at 2:46am

TastesLikeGrandpa, you make me smile. in a good way. Laugh even.

I'll check out a few of your masterpieces in a moment.

J-Ray on Mar 21 '07 at 2:47am

=) I wasn't trying to define it, just saying that to be a professional you need to follow certain criteria set by the community. For designers, this might include not doing spec work, using legitimate software and claiming your income properly. Lots of other things...

But if a professional (I'm thinking of myself, and I normally get paid) does some occasional charity work, donating your services, he is still a professional, wouldn't you agree?

spires on Mar 21 '07 at 2:48am

Definiton is built upon observable distinctions.

PiNKlePuNKin on Mar 21 '07 at 2:48am

Not attacked. Talk about bristly word choices...

More like... provoked, intrigued, that sort of sensation.

Maybe I've fallen asleep at the desk and this is all just a nightmare... Er, dream, I meant dream... heh

J-Ray on Mar 21 '07 at 2:48am

Spires I'm happy the birds design did well. I was really worried for a while.

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