The Spiral Quirk

Yeah, it’s an old phrase (I believe it was even funny at one stage ) but will some people never stop beating the proverbial dead horse?

The self-styled guardians of ethics and professionalism over at OT are still banging the drum about the Fractal Universe Calendar. Poor lovies haven’t had a reply from the publishers *waaaaaaaah*. Good job I’m not the publisher: I’d have replied and told them to take their impertinent noses out of my business post-haste. Mind you, I’d have used less words and a grand total of 7 letters to do so

I have to laugh at the scale of their hypocrisy when they feel it is OK for them to use spurious arguments to try and make a point – all in the name of “ethics and professionalism” of course *cough* bullshit*cough* – and yet it’s OK for them to blatantly misrepresent other people’s words and actions. Clean your own house up, boys, before tackling anyone else’s.

Here are some of my favourite relevant quotations:

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. [André Gide ]
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. [H.G. Wells ]

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one. [J. Pierpoint Morgan ]

Just remember, there’s a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way. [M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter ]

…but, like the proverbial trainwreck, it’s compulsive. And leaves one with a nasty taste in one’s mouth.

OrbitTrap is, still, going out of its way to make mountains out of molehills and proving itself a master of misinterpretation, spin and delusion. It’s all very well people ignoring them but alternative views can, and should, be visible. Which is not likely to happen actually at OT as long as they continue to moderate all posts and not publish ones expressing contrary opinions, or simply ban the people who disagree with them.

So I’m going to bore the pants off you all in the near future with my views on the calendar and BMFAC but you could do a lot worse than read the comprehensive posts Ken’s already made at Escape to Infinity.

In the meantime, this is what I posted a few minutes ago which is presently in moderation limbo. Any bets on whether it gets published or not?

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: if you are so very concerned with the manner in which fractal art is presented to the general public, and with the type of art which is presented, then DO something positive about it yourselves instead of whinging about one publication.

There are enough people who use deviantART or Zazzle or any one of many printing services to create and publish their own calendars: you could do that. Offer them for sale, publicise it via this blog and sit back and wait for your silent readership to knock you over in the rush to buy.