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Post by gelly14 on Sept 25, 2011 12:26:58 GMT -5
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Post by mahailia on Sept 25, 2011 12:30:56 GMT -5
I haven't seen this posted yet: www.morrisdailyherald.com/articles/2010/09/27/17688422/index.xmlAbsolutely fabulous and fierce drawing of Adam, and signed by him. I think this made the rounds last summer, but definitely worth a second look. This article is dated Sept. 27, 2010. Sorry for the tech fail on posting the actual drawing, but it is stunning! OOPS! When I went back to copy part of the text from this article, it was gone! Why do they do that? Says you have to be a subscriber to read the whole article, bummer. ETA: Gelly says she can read the whole article, and has posted the pic below, thanks Gelly!. Here is part of what the article says: But it was perhaps the drawing of singer and American Idol star Adam Lambert that garnered the most attention among his submissions. The large drawing with its piercing eyes and realistic sense seemed to draw viewers to it. Lambert’s emotions can almost be felt by the expression in his eyes in the drawing. Maybe that’s because John McLuckie places such emphasis on the eyes when he creates his art. “I always try to start with the eyes,” he said, “and try to capture whatever I can with them. Then I do the mouth, then the hair.” John said he has liked Adam Lambert ever since he saw him on American Idol. “He had one of the best voices I had ever heard,” John said. In his drawing of Lambert, John said he tried to combine Lambert’s image with a sense of his strong voice and personality. The piece took him four weeks of work to get just right. The article also said that the artist, John, who is 15 (16 now) waited for 3 hours to get Adam to sign the drawing, eventually gave it to one of the dancers to give to Adam, and that Adam brought it back to him and thanked him right before the concert started. This was the Peoria GNT last summer. Quotes from: adamquotedaily.blogspot.com/2011/09/honoring-adam-25092011.html |
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Post by katycake on Sept 25, 2011 12:36:33 GMT -5
Haha, how do you even find these sites?!? It does play!  I missed this little clip, it's so funny! Thank you  |
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Post by gelly14 on Sept 25, 2011 12:37:44 GMT -5
mahailia I can read the article. Here is the drawing.   ETA Oh good katycake!!! As they say google is your best friend! :D
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Post by tigerlily on Sept 25, 2011 12:40:41 GMT -5
Loved your essay, as always, NoAngel and sometimes I think that "arrogance" tag is a competition show cop out meme. We're trying to take the "other contestant," so we have to go with our subjective assessments that cannot really be disproved, since they are mostly a matter of opinion and perception. Adam always conveys excitement about his work and that's part of what makes him such a good spokesperson for it. Those who trot out those lame "arrogant" criticisms are often trolling for a reaction, IMO, or grasping at straws because they've got nothing else to take him down with ...Ding...Ding...Ding. We have a correct answer!  If you watch the comments at "other places", you will see a pattern. It is the exact same posters that say the.exact.same.things every time they post. Sometimes a poster even has sock puppet accounts, so they can back up their own opinions in the same thread. Crazy, huh? ??? Recently Durbin tweeted out a message that seemed pretty arrogant. What I found interesting is that the posters who were defending him tooth and nail, saying things such as "a tweet wouldn't matter in the grand scheme of things" and "he should be exactly who he was without worrying about what others think", were the posters who just one or two years ago (or even the same day-in a seperate thread) were on Adam for every word he said. I've seen these exact posters spend HOURS on the meme that one tweet from Adam could basically alter outcome of his entire career. : So, what is the difference here? Their arguments and criticisms change depending on who the artist is they are discussing. These people REALLY don't believe 95% of what they say about Adam. They just have to make something up because they are butthurt or they think their guy or girl isn't getting the right attention or they feel that Adam threatens their favorite's special snowflake status, etc. The Idol bubble is just that- a bubble! Just because a few butthurt posters are pulling things out of thin air, does not mean that the general population feels the same way at all! You have to look at the general perception and the media impressions OUTSIDE of the Idol bubble, to get an accurate assessment on how Adam is viewed outside of his diehard fans. |
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Post by gelly14 on Sept 25, 2011 12:47:52 GMT -5
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Post by katycake on Sept 25, 2011 12:49:45 GMT -5
ETA Oh good katycake!!! As they say google is your best friend! :D I just watched it 3 times in a row. It's even longer the the YT video, I never knew she said afterwards "I like balls too..." LOL ;D |
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Post by NoAngel on Sept 25, 2011 12:51:16 GMT -5
Wow, you guys are amazing! I love all the comments here today and I'd quote everyone if I could, but it would just be me saying ITA ITA ITA ITA.... LOL This part of Lynne's post caught my eye: As teachers of writing, and I assume this transfers over to many of the other arts, we develop these standards and then try to teach students how to competently reproduce them in their own writing, which effectively teaches them to think inside the box. I have come to believe that we have to teach them that there is a box, and what it can do for them, but also teach that it is good and necessary to sometimes experiment outside of the box in order to grow creatively. The really great ones internalize the box, and then riff off from it in their own unique ways; some even smash the box, for effect, altogether. This really resonated for me. I totally agree that an artist must learn how to draw inside the lines first in order to recognize where those lines are. And like you said, a great artist will then begin to blur those lines and break free from those boundaries. I never understood those (writers, mostly) who proudly say they don't read others' work because they don't want it to affect their own work. Huh? Studying what has been done both in the past and by one's contemporaries helps put things into context and exposes patterns. Reminds me of Adam's PR episode and the difference between something being derivative or copycat vs. referencing a particular style but using it as a base from which to design something new and fresh. Adam totally got that. We know he gets it for his music also, and has been and continues to be a student of other musical artists. Adam's time in musical theater gave him not only excellent training, but was also all about working within the box and being as creative as possible within those confines. Ultimately though, his creativity needed more freedom, which is why he chose to risk everything and blast out of that box. |
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Post by mahailia on Sept 25, 2011 12:57:54 GMT -5
I can't believe I have NEVER seen that before, I am a bad fan! Loved it, Adam is smokin hot!!!! And the bit by Sara hillarious and very well received by the audience, IMO. Thanks for posting, Gelly! |
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Post by nica575 on Sept 25, 2011 13:01:39 GMT -5
Loved your essay, as always, NoAngel and sometimes I think that "arrogance" tag is a competition show cop out meme. We're trying to take the "other contestant," so we have to go with our subjective assessments that cannot really be disproved, since they are mostly a matter of opinion and perception. Adam always conveys excitement about his work and that's part of what makes him such a good spokesperson for it. Those who trot out those lame "arrogant" criticisms are often trolling for a reaction, IMO, or grasping at straws because they've got nothing else to take him down with ...Ding...Ding...Ding. We have a correct answer! If you watch the comments at "other places", you will see a pattern. It is the exact same posters that say the.exact.same.things every time they post. Sometimes a poster even has sock puppet accounts, so they can back up their own opinions in the same thread. Crazy, huh? ??? Recently Durbin tweeted out a message that seemed pretty arrogant. What I found interesting is that the posters who were defending him tooth and nail, saying things such as "a tweet wouldn't matter in the grand scheme of things" and "he should be exactly who he was without worrying about what others think", were the posters who just one or two years ago (or even the same day-in a seperate thread) were on Adam for every word he said. I've seen these exact posters spend HOURS on the meme that one tweet from Adam could basically alter outcome of his entire career. : So, what is the difference here? Their arguments and criticisms change depending on who the artist is they are discussing. These people REALLY don't believe 95% of what they say about Adam. They just have to make something up because they are butthurt or they think their guy or girl isn't getting the right attention or they feel that Adam threatens their favorite's special snowflake status, etc. The Idol bubble is just that- a bubble! Just because a few butthurt posters are pulling things out of thin air, does not mean that the general population feels the same way at all! You have to look at the general perception and the media impressions OUTSIDE of the Idol bubble, to get an accurate assessment on how Adam is viewed outside of his diehard fans. , I totally agree with you re the posters and the idol bubble - I ventured into some Non-Adam space you are referring to yesterday  ... As far as OUTSIDE of Idle bubble perception and the population in general - IMO most don't care about anyone's personality and go by "do I like the music"? or "do my friends think he/she is cool?" type attitude... (Chris Brown is a great example). Performers come and go in and out of the media buzz, and during the period when there is no buzz (like the last year for Adam) the performer "stops existing"... again, my perception is that most people are very casual about pop music consumption...It seems to me that being in the media as much as possible is extremely important just to "exist" regardless of the reason. In sort - "any publicity is good publicity" is unfortunately THE TRUTH in showbiz...- again IMHO.... ..lost my train of thought :-[, so going back to cleaning... |
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