Face Hooked

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Face Hooked

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uploaded by Luke Ramsey

This design is a joke about the online social community " Facebook." I for one, have been wasting my time being " face hooked." I initially created this design to remind me to spend more time drawing. I use online social networks to promote Islands Fold, an artist residency that my partner and I operate out of our own pockets.  We just celebrated our one year anniversary.

I submitted the design to www.threadless.com. All winning designs win $1500. If I had of one, I would have used the money to help fund Islands Fold. The design was well received by my peers and supporters, but unfortunately scored a very low rating from hundreds of other voters. Therefore, it was dropped out of the running. I can understand why hundreds of people didn't like my design for a tee shirt. I like knowing that all these people had an opinion about it, and got to see it and think about it. 

 The " face hooked" design reflects on my personal opinion of online social networks, and I have no intention to offend or insult people that spend a lot of time using them. The postiive thing about these networks, is that it gives me more exposure to my creative projects. The negative effect on such online communities as " facebook" is that I get hooked on being social, in a community I don't really want to be too social in. I prefer being social with people in person, not on the web. I also recognize that I have met a lot of artist friends through the internet, and the majority of our residents at Islands fold , have first met me first online.