Wow, what a review.
It’s kind of amusing and strange to be writing about this but I think it’s safe to say that Josh Cook at Bookslut.com pretty much hated our Three Trees make a forest book. He seems to miss narrative in our pieces and find them lacking depth. I am not so surprised at critique coming at my work but I am baffled that someone could be anything but in awe at Tadahiro’s amazing illustrations. The strange thing is that he holds up our book against some crazy high standard, citing even Matisse, but he fails to understand that many of these images (especially in Tadahiro’s case) are commercial illustrations. Oh well, what can you do … we all have different tastes. The first bad review under our the belt I guess. Feels kind of interesting.
Anyway, if you own and you enjoyed the book, this might be an excellent time to write a review of it at the Amazon page. Thanks!
May 7th, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Enrico,
Don’t sweat bad reviews. In fact, all reviews need to be taken with a grain of salt. Do You Know was called “a collection of blog posts” in its first review. Only then to go on and become our best seller and reap lots of praise from the people of the city it was written for.
Onward!
C
May 8th, 2007 at 12:31 am
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May 8th, 2007 at 8:04 am
Matisse…huh…please.
Man, That was just harsh and was written for the sake of it. That guy Josh is ignorant, doesn’t understand at all what you do and probably hates animated films. His facts are way off.
To not see past the simplicity of Tadohiro’s characters and shapes and into the complexity of the layout, colors and design shows ignorance….the guy quite literally cannot see the forest for the tree’s.
I imagine if people could respond to that guys article he’d be ripped to shreds. I cant stand art critics…they critique because they can’t do it themselves therefore they don’t truly understand art. even then they think there has to be some greater meaning than what is really there.
May 8th, 2007 at 8:08 am
Also this guy doesn’t critique. he just comments on what he thinks would be a clever cut down instead of giving a reasonable reason why he thinks the way he does.
He’s so caught up in his prose……oops writing and anger for that.
May 8th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
Craig- Yeah, absolutely. I am not concerned … just amused I think. Interesting to hear your thoughts from the CMP experience though.
Love the new Hitotoki.com, hope to get to submit something.
Chad- eh eh, thanks for your thoughts, but yeah it’s not worth getting mad about. It’s certainly amusing …
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