Dilbert - Engineer's Perspective of Art (Clip)

[@raksh9]

I wish the Dilbert series had continued. It was great while it lasted.

[@Tigerman1138]

raksh9 Smarter than a lot today.

[@XpaceTrue]

Tigerman1138 It was probably too smart. Networks seem to want dumbed-down shows with a very broad audience appeal, esp. these days. Notice that adult cartoons like The Simpsons and Family Guy are still airing...

[@powerist209]

Or rather not today actually, consider the creator's (Scott Adams) "interesting choice of candidate".

[@A_Box]

Family guy and Simpsons are rather vulgar and really on another league, that is from someone who just discovered Dilbert. You cannot watch a single episode of either without a reference to pop culture. Dilbert is actually original.

[@theBigA1992]

XpaceTrue most tv viewers are simpletons and the only thing they actually label as entertainment is violence and idiocy.

[@norse8596]

What's funny is that Bob Ross hated abstract art which is why he painted nature which is what he loved.

[@dragonknightleader1]

Good for Bob Ross.

[@kyleshiflet9952]

I'm more of a surrealist

[@MarquosXoloVanda]

"uh just paint Rusty, don't talk."

[@E100Omega123]

Dilbert does a pretty good job of summing up NFTs.

[@aredub1847]

"ready"

[@vectorhacker-r2]

The whole art scene in general.

[@devilgene7330]

*talks about any form of pictures not being what they represent* "Of course, it’s about NFTs!"

[@Mr.Drew70]

NFTs are awesome

[@HerrDeutschBlood]

NFTs are the biggest scams in recent memory and there’s nothing anyone can say to make me change my mind.

[@Lavitage]

That little tail wag when dogbert says "I'd better look into it"

[@Tigerman1138]

Lavitage If there's a chance to profit...

[@DusBeforeDawn2008]

If this was the actual comic there'd be a 5 day arc of Dogbet being a scam artist or art teacher

[@skull8093]

Y'all ever see _Good Will Hunting?_ Theres this scene in there that I relate to where Will is talking to Skyler about how Mozart saw the piano and he just got it. But when Will looks at a piano, all he sees is keys, pedals, and a box of wood. I'm the same way with art and engineering. You put an engineering text book in front of me, and all I'll see is labrynthian jibberish and technical jargon. But you sit a bottle of black gesso, magenta yellow cyan and white gouache, a 2" brush and a wood cut infront of me, and I just get it. I think that's the kind of person you need to be to really appreciate still life paintings. I could never explain to anyone the joy of seeing how light and color and composition and shape and form all work to make a splendid visual experience. If you haven't got it already, you're never gonna get it, just like how I'll never make heads or tales of engineering.

[@Tigerman1138]

“Head as a brush.” I would love that episode.

[@qty1315]

That was a good episode.

[@mrghostlyshadow]

Engineers solve problems. Not problems like "What is beauty?" They solve practical problems.

[@redstonecasey4713]

Dennis Practical problems like "How to keep some mean mother hubbard from tearing me a structurally superfluous new be-hind"? The answer? Use a gun. And if that don't work? Use more gun.

[@ianfinrir8724]

@@redstonecasey4713 And you best hope not pointed at you.

[@dainross5321]

Because that would fall within your conundrums of philosophy.

[@josephgover5072]

Ratbert chose a circle because of his fun, personality, Dogbert chose triangle, because of his smart intellect And Dilbert chose line because he is boring, Favorite shape can defy personality.

[@skull8093]

Damn.

[@CountDVB]

Yeah, though also more on shape theory, it reflects Ratbert’s innocence and simplicity, Dogbert’s sharpness and Dilbert’s solid stability

[@thelastchapter4878]

Bring back DILBERT to TV!

[@christopherrogers5197]

Yes, please.

[@Piledriver86]

Actually, Adams said that it represents Dilberts lack of congtrol over his environment, he used the flat tie as a code to the people in the know that Dilbert finally got some. Thats why it went back to curved in the next strip

[@longWriter]

You know, once I wrote a story with a particular set of symbolism in mind. I came back to it years later and re-read it, realizing that a completely different set of symbolism worked much better than what I had in mind when I wrote it. At that moment, it dawned on me: artists don't really know what their work means, either! They're not hiding their meaning from us normies who don't get art; *they* don't even know the meaning, themselves!

[@rphb5870]

well that is a very good observation that Socrates also discovered, he just did it over 2000 years ago. Irregardless, when it comes to storytelling their is a few key points to remember, one of them is "kill your darling" The point of that one is that we shouldn't be hung up about a particular feature about our story, like a quark a skill or an event, regardless of how much much we like it, for it might not fit into the broader picture. Now a good writing process requires a clear set goal, we know the general plot and thus were the story is going, because we can't just "discover writing" if we try to just write wildly we are bound to find ourselves lost. What we can use discover writing for is our characters, more specifically their personality. Maybe the character we originally imagined to be a melancholic deep thinker is actually a sanguine happy go lucky party girl. It is important for any good story that our characters are not simply instruments for the narrative but actual living beings. Even if they live only in our imagination, they need to still be alive, because that is how they become alive for the people who read our stories later. We cannot plan who the characters are, we can only throw misfortune their way, how they deal with it we need to discover.

[@vksasdgaming9472]

Does it really matter?

[@SL-cl9gt]

What was your story about???

[@longWriter]

@@SL-cl9gt It was a fanfic of some cartoon. Not proud of it TBH.

[@SL-cl9gt]

@@longWriter lay it on us!

[@jordanloux3883]

I'm disappointed they didn't exaggerate Bob Ross's real history in the military as a drill sergeant.

[@TurnAGundam]

Huh, he was a drill sergeant? News to me.

[@jordanloux3883]

@@TurnAGundam Yep, he says he hated yelling at people so much that he decided to never yell again.

[@TurnAGundam]

@@jordanloux3883 Huh, you learn something new every day, I guess.

[@erniegamboa5609]

He was a Master Sergeant in the U.S. A. F. with 20 years of service from the time he was 18 years old.

[@tripdefect87]

Dilbert was so underappreciated by UPN that it honestly hurts

[@eyeseer1]

UPN wasn’t that great to begin with.

[@PhazonOmega]

Art: is a beautiful thing that the heart of the artist is portrayed in. The heart is the key part. Without it, the art is lifeless.

[@joeywomer]

Dogbert: "They say you have to suffer for your art. I wonder if this is what they meant?" Me: "I guess that's why they call it PAINting."

[@tyorbs6277]

AH HA HA HA

[@threestoogesfan2000]

😂

[@Shoenin]

Honestly, the Dilbert Cartoon was better than the strip. Too bad it got cancelled :(

[@breadeater1194]

This is simultaneously really good and really good at explaining why people say Scott Adams isn't funny.

[@barkbork7528]

I feel like dilberts arguement can be easily refuted by just bringing up any other type of art, not only that, but context of fruit paintings. Fruit is a common type of painting because it's easy for practise. There's a sentimental value in that, it's a symbol of someone's achievements, that they've fulfilled the milestone of drawing a relatively simple object in an extremely competent way. And that's before you even bring up any other form of art. There's plenty of pictures I genuinely do enjoy seeing several times a day, or multiple times once in a while. Stuff I have saved that I revisit, because they either have some sentimental value or just look uniquely nice to me. Then again maybe the writers made Dilbert say something boring on purpose 'cause that's kind of his entire character.

[@ElronHumpperdink]

Orange, green, purple (violet) That secondary triad color scheme though.

[@nickytembo4112]

I’m pretty it’s Red, Green, and Blue that are secondaries not Orange and Purple

[@Babbleplay]

Green is not a creative color.

[@LFCtvUSA]

@Ryslife98 yup. you're right. Tom Kenny, the voice of Spongebob, did the voices of Asok and Ratbert in this series as well.

[@samuellasky7771]

I love how Ratbert just berates the TV show host

[@tyorbs6277]

Ah just paint Rusty don’t talk

[@bjltv.homeoftheplaylists3784]

0:26 let's just paint Rusty. Don't talk. Ratbert is fed up of the chit chat. 😀

[@TimeofQwerty]

hard to believe dilbert had more sense than its creator about, well, anything

[@proxyperoxy2102]

Fun thing Is that Adams became everything Dogbert mocked and manipulated regarding Conservatives.

[@SuperMarkerComicBro]

Taupe? TAUPE?! HOW D'YA MAKE TAUPE?! blackjac, you're killin' me!

[@MilciadesAndrion]

I think the cartoon is telling us that sometimes is better to change the method we are using and not the goals. Great video. I liked it and subscribed to the channel.

[@ratfink2384]

I had no idea this was a tv show!

[@AlejandroIrausquin]

+RatFink 238 A news paper cartoon, that got its tv show

[@kaos2317]

yes it was. It was broadcasted 1999 JAN 25 - 2000 JUL 25 on the forgotten network UPN. Dilbert had 2 seasons with a total of 30 episodes. Ah, the good old days.

[@PhoenixAngel429]

You can buy the DVD on amazon.

[@Tigerman1138]

PhoenixAngel429 on Netflix too

[@ScoutGuy]

I feel like Rusty Shanks' voice was inspiration for the Ice King

[@SergeantExtreme]

Ratbert was right the first time. It was orange.

[@rebekahM540]

Captain Obvious rarbert is so cute

[@C_H_handle]

He was right both times, he picked a circle and Rusty painted a dot which is a circle

[@Babbleplay]

I was expecting the show to resume after the interruption with the legbreaker goon teaching art

[@benjamindanielsen5204]

That ending to Rusty's show though...

[@Spiegel1989]

2D studio art major here, and I have to wonder if choosing my major was worth it when I go to a school that apparently calls smearing your own shit a sociopolitical statement.

[@CircusPeanut]

I swear Tom Kenny does these voices

[@yosefdemby8792]

Not all of them

[@ScoutGuy]

He plays "Rusty Shanks"

[@the_legendary_yeeter]

I love how Rusty (Bob Ross knock-off) is voiced by Tom Kenny

[@timthewarlord2304]

Just the reaction to the absolute violence, their hearing

[@fofonia]

I'm an engineer, but some kinds of art are appealing to me. I agree with Dil about the bowl of fruit, never got that sort of crap.

[@ObiTrev]

Art is nothing more than something somebody likes for no reason, except that somebody else hates it.

[@FEF832]

Rusty Shanks: "Last week I taught you how to paint shrubbery using your own head as a brush." Me: "The fuck?"

[@deltasquad8817]

0:26 Hood nigga energy 😵😂👌

[@Lazyguy22]

When the Lord created the artist, He said to Himself, "this is pretty good, but can I create something even *more* up its own behind than this?" And lo! He created the engineer, and He saw that it was smug.

[@kyliethelittlespider-mangirl94]

Thats Tom Kenny as the orange cat :O

[@tanith117]

Thats a rat, Ratbert.

[@kyliethelittlespider-mangirl94]

Oh my bad, it looks like a cat to me.

[@andrewshouse9840]

@@kyliethelittlespider-mangirl94 The cat is red and... evil.

[@Mr3DLC]

I think the rat is billy west

[@paolo2763]

@@kyliethelittlespider-mangirl94 Can't blame you, there's no way to see him as a rat

[@Q1478963]

@DJBassEnergy I remember seeing a comic strip way back of Dilbert, and i believe his tie is like that because he hasn't encountered any sexual activities. in the comic strip, he finally got laid and the tie was flat down.

[@Tigerman1138]

ScarDire I remember that. Adams once muses the perpetually bent necktie is just one more element in life out of our control.

[@NaomiSokolow]

Ratbert is bae!

[@deepocean673]

d e h u m a n i z e y o u r s e l f a n d f a c e t h e b l o o d s h e d

[@atrailofblood]

face TO bloodshed

[@PC-Gamer-000]

Ah yes, the mob's art of collecting what is owed to them.

[@Katana9990]

the guy playing rusty also played Fix-It in Teen Titans, i think it was episode 13

[@Piledriver86]

The point isnt the fruit, its the composition, style and color.

[@carultch]

How do you make taupe anyway?

[@BozYT]

0:09 sounds like spongebob trust me i kno it when he says "ready" (im ready! im ready!)

[@NaomiSokolow]

they are the same voice

[@dorourke105]

Oh yeah that yellow drama queen on Nickelodeon who constantly tries to be funny but isn't. at least not anymore

[@breadeater1194]

Holy fuck they invented Don't Hug Me I'm Scared

[@cartersumner3881]

I Always Thought Bob Ross Wasn’t A Chill Man 24/7

[@MGROOBER_XD]

This show looks fun Also, first.

[@TheMonkeybutler20]

i love bob Ross references in tv shows.

[@jeremytung1632]

Apparently Taupe is a dark grey-brown.

[@sailorgenisage]

Rob Ross reference?

[@DJBassEnergy]

Why is his tie like that?

[@vallraffs]

The joke about taupe and the octagon is pretty weird. I mean Bob Ross was far from an abstract painter, he did very traditional, even simplistic artwork. And the point Dilbert makes is closely related to that, given his example of a bowl of fruit (something Bob Ross easily could be imagined having painted). Yet they make the joke about one colour representing another colour, and very esoteric choices in shape and colour. These two ideas for jokes don't really mesh.

[@skull8093]

Yeah, that joke flew over my head as an artist. I have a pretty good sense of humor about artists in general, and this outsider approach just doesn't make sense. I get that it's a take down of abstract art, but the joke is so out of touch that it might as well be a non sequiter clocking in at 2 cuils.

[@breadeater1194]

This franchise doesn't seem to put any thought into anything, huh? I love it, but it seems too busy making people look dumb to be smart.

[@blob5907]

I sure hope sombody got fired for that blunder

[@ianfinrir8724]

It's levels upon levels.

[@thuaners]

I love Taupe because of Dilbert!! ehehe

[@aMR5AvDeG]

That Bob Ross scene

[@TheHylianJuggalo]

Any type of 'arts' grad be like: 1:34

[@debit256]

Suffering for your art is when artists would become more creative or emotional when he/she is at an extreme low. People might buy art because its images hold an emotional, memory or pleasurable connection; less than the accuracy of the painting. OR the feeling of owning a valuable item. Dilbert thinks art is a scam because he doesn't know the reasons why people buy art other than his own beliefs and values. "a small clip that displays the meaning of art in terms of an engineer's thought process"

[@videogamebomer]

Not to mention the tax exemption

[@uhltron]

I figured it was Freudian. Thanks for confirming.

[@RickOLoucO]

0:47 YOU'RE TEARING ME APPART RUSTY!

[@johncraw8572]

I like ratbert

[@dextroturux]

rob ross approves of it. he is laughing... ;-)

[@quazar5017]

Rob Boss 😎

[@PhazonOmega]

1:42 I want that pic. :)

[@andrewpytko2938]

I like Ratbert.

[@OdaSwifteye]

Yes.

[@theBigA1992]

So...what happened with Rusty again?

[@WhiteJarrah]

Decapitated and his head served on a platter.

[@Nickelodeon81]

Delicious

[@Jabberwockybird]

Ratbert had it right. Orange dot(circle)

[@TheD736]

it is what they ment

[@cliffdariff74]

Ate these made by Scott?

[@philbateman1989]

I think he's just meant to look scruffy. Like he's wearing clothes that don't fit right.

[@carultch]

That still is drawing. The computer program just takes shortcuts. You still need to come up with the ideas.

[@blackjac5000]

A happy little taupe octagon...

[@jaymzjackson5537]

SpongeBob-I-I-I mean Ratbert

[@coachstopframe]

ratbert a savage 😂

[@blenderuser9256]

According to Donald Knuth, software is art. :)

[@CJColvin]

Hey its Bob Ross.

[@Peter12390]

How could anyone be angry at Bob Ross?

[@nicholasdruce5346]

I am hearing SpongeBob.

[@CariagaXIII]

I'm a offended find this Artist

[@artificialanimeuniverse5063]

LoL 🤣

[@mr.l8723]

Bob Ross vanished because of the government

[@Krypteou]

@indidesidude No wonder photoshop and illistrator don't work as well as the traditional pencil and paper. ...making a joke, engineers amuse me. :P

[@Dankyjrthethird]

engineerz lyf3

[@vivekgirdhar9455]

Digital printo HDI

[@vivekgirdhar9455]

Ram Chawla Drist Samsing iphone

[@jacobelgan5196]

As a film director, this reasoning why i dislike classic art. That's why i prefer modern and post modern art as it expresses things that cannot be tangibly recreated in the real world: human experiences.

[@MrJoeyWheeler]

Modern and postmodern art don't create human experiences. They're nothing but gibberish and garbage that you're then told is "brilliant" by a bunch of rich nutcases.

[@jacobelgan5196]

@MrJoeyWheeler whatever you say Edit: this came off as mean, and I'm sorry about that, but consider expanding your horrizons with art. You're missing out on a lot of what inspired contemporary entertainment

[@merasion]

lolz...

[@stardustkevin7322]

How *DO* you make taupe?