I just wrote a reply, and it didn't post! UGH!

Bottomline.. I blew a fuse when I posted this lastnight. But after visiting the h20 and seeing some of the images there (I personally wont call them art) I snapped!!!

This isn't sour grapes on my side. Heck, my last 2 images made the h20. This is about what a community that I am part of is picking to represent it. As ShadowDragonLord said above: "If you ask me, the Hot 20 is just plain garbage... It's no wonder people think Bryce is a kiddy program, with people like that ruining it's reputation."

To FuzzyShadows, If members here have the right, as you say, to remain stagnant in their talents. I too have the right (as well as all others) to voice my opinion about my community and the direction it is taking.

What really made me freak out is this growing trend around here to label everything that is just tossed together, lazy work, as Surrealism.

Click, apply bad mats to bad poser figures. Make them float off the ground. Click.. add some spheres, move them around. Render... Call it Surrealism! UGH, Give me a break! Really!

As much as Art is SUBJECTIVE, there is also an OBJECTIVE side to it. They teach Art Theory in college. There is some objective componants in art. Structure, composition, use of color pallets, etc. My thoughts are not that people dont have a right to like what they want to like. Mine is, that I think many voters here are clicking the vote more based on the names under the image rather than the image itself. Ruining what could be a really nice feature here. Turning it into a mess of sub-par images and wanna-be surrealism fakes.

I dont know how to fix it. I mentioned in the CC forum a few weeks back on a H20 topic that RR makes it so each artist can DISABLE the vote button when they upload their images. I know that wont make the H20 any better. But at least then I could choose to, or not to be a part of this sham of a voting system.

:::Stressed out!::::
-B