Title: Beware the Love Bug!
created on 07 Jan 12

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1. Burgandy wrote:
 So this is what this little critter looks like:) Colorful!
2. hanging wrote:
 so welcoming if this would be placed as a tile work at the entrance of the kids' park!
3. linmar wrote:
 :)
4. golehto wrote:
 cute:)
5. bluemoon wrote:
 very good
6. chelydra wrote:
 i thought i was just going to pop in and out, just scatter around a couple of stars by way of thanx for nice comments. you hooked me tho.
7. chelydra wrote:
 i've let out a couple of too-loud grumbles lately about my aversion to the cute and adorable stuff that's so prevalent around TD... But yours affect me different. They're just genuinely cute and adorable!... hmmm... a closer look... and now i see you've g
8. chelydra wrote:
 ...got some well-organized and discipled stuff going on here, all working for not against the image... hence the adorableness is adorable, if you know what i mean
9. chelydra wrote:
 No, how would you... it didn't make sense... what i mean is that generally once people find come up with the idea of doing something adorable, they just rely on the adorableness itself to make the whole picture...
10. chelydra wrote:
 but you understand that you have to do the work of design and construction that will support, and emanate, the adorableness, make it resonate and carry through the air
11. chelydra wrote:
 like a violinmaker would, if the adorableness were music... the violin has to be constructed with care or there's no music worth hearing.
12. chelydra wrote:
 as as simplistic and silly as this looks, it's anything but... and in fact it does NOT look simplistic or silly, it looks like it SHOULD look simplistic and silly... but doesn't really...
13. chelydra wrote:
 so to make the softest gentlest sweetest tune float lightly in the air, you need a rock-hard, tightly constructed instrument, constructed with mathematical precision.
14. chelydra wrote:
 But I am talking not about the obvious kind of artistic skills, because five, Qsilv and hjjr, whose work always has a wow factor, is obviously by real artists who know what they're doing, etc etc etc - they annoy me thoroughly when go for adorableness. No
15. chelydra wrote:
 It's like their adorableness is painted on while yours emanates from within. And now I notice another thing here... Your frog (is it a frog... oops bug) his arms reaching out like that, hoping for a hug, I mean really wanting and needing a hug...
16. chelydra wrote:
 ...not just putting on a show of, or going through the motions of, wanting/needing a hug. Like a 3-yr-old genuinely thrilled mommy's home at last... not an 8-yr who knows how a spontaneous-and-innocent-seeming display of affectionate gestures will get her
17. chelydra wrote:
 what she wants. [to be continued from the next picture]