"I like your work, not you"

[lizardking82]

I have been told this two times in the last couple of years in total, but I am slightly wondering, how can some people be so stupid and say they like your work, but not you? Your work is you! In this case, I am a photographer. My work, in most cases, represents how I am feeling and what I am thinking. It is like I am taking a piece of myself and putting into a pic.

 

[taiyuu_otoko]

how can some people be so stupid and say they like your work, but not you?

Because they like your work, (the pictures you take) and not you. It's not really complicated.

I like plenty of artists but I avoid listening to them speak. Most are left-tarded idiots. But since I am an adult, and can think rationally (at least some of the time) I am capable of separating out the PRODUCT they produce through their art (music, acting, directing etc.) without needing to simultaneously appreciated the opinions of the brain dead lefttard who produced it.

Do you need to appreciate the emotions of the chef who cooked your food, or are you capable of enjoying the food separate from his masturbation fantasies he enjoys when he goes home?

Are you capable of enjoying the performance and skill of athletes without needing to agree on their opinions on immigration?

 

[sazc]

wait...are they calling you a d1ck? or is this in a romantic sense - as in they are saying "Im into your work, but I'm not interested in dating"?

 

[lizardking82]

@taiyuu_otoko I feel where you're coming from, but with photography, it's a bit different. Almost all of what you mentioned is a bit more complicated than photography. A song has a the lead singer, the composer, the lyrics write, sometimes even other guys, in most cases a remixer, it's never from one person so it's almost never the full sentiments of one person. Cooking is not an art (in my books). Acting is you playing what someone else wrote and directed, etc. Photography, on the other hand, is completely my work. I had the idea, I shot it, I retouched it.

@sazc she meant it in a way that she doesn't like me LOL but likes my work. And my work is never just "work" cause it;s mostly artistic photography and it is tightly connected to who I am as a person and how I see a lot of things (not talking here about political opinions and all that).

 

[wifehunter]

Sh!t test

 

[Masculinity]

I have been told this two times in the last couple of years in total, but I am slightly wondering, how can some people be so stupid and say they like your work, but not you? Your work is you! In this case, I am a photographer. My work, in most cases, represents how I am feeling and what I am thinking. It is like I am taking a piece of myself and putting into a pic.

Maybe your personality?

 

[Von]

@taiyuu_otoko I feel where you're coming from, but with photography, it's a bit different. Almost all of what you mentioned is a bit more complicated than photography. A song has a the lead singer, the composer, the lyrics write, sometimes even other guys, in most cases a remixer, it's never from one person so it's almost never the full sentiments of one person. Cooking is not an art (in my books). Acting is you playing what someone else wrote and directed, etc. Photography, on the other hand, is completely my work. I had the idea, I shot it, I retouched it.

@sazc she meant it in a way that she doesn't like me LOL but likes my work. And my work is never just "work" cause it;s mostly artistic photography and it is tightly connected to who I am as a person and how I see a lot of things (not talking here about political opinions and all that).

Spoken like an artist.

Sorry, your work is différent from your personality in many ways... think: Commercial artist.

The guys who produce sellable stuff or do what clients want.

She likes your photography... so your work
She doesnt like you.... look/ personality etc.

When she says that, reply: it means you love me?

We all offering services but yeah sometime the service is more likeable than the person doing it (I am in advise-sells)... but we all want to be serviced by someone we love.

Never take it personnal.

If what I wrote doesnt make too much sensé.. here à simple question: Would any of your clients be your friend?

 

[lizardking82]

@Masculinity & @Von I went out with this girl a couple of months ago. She's the weirdo type, but still, she was cute and I liked the date. It was not a restaurant date and although I know she's not the type, she had dressed up nicely even though we just hung out somewhere in the center of the city. We stayed there for at least 3 hours, I also took some very nice pics of her in the end. We kept on talking a couple of times more online and I wanted to plan the second date about a week later, but I subtly tested her to see if she will write back and I left her without writing and she didn;t make a peep for 2 weeks. In the meantime, she's either not a very sexual person, or she doesn't feel it with me although I tried to escalate in different cases so put these two together and I dropped it altogether. She kept on liking my work online and I did not notice it except for a couple of days ago where she had worn a type of dress showing her inner boobs a bit, something quite unusual for her. I complimented her on the dress and she was like "you only write to me when you see my tits?" and that was jerkish since it's not even true to begin with, have written to her in different cases about different things.