nobody cares. get over it.

In fact most of the cartoons Hugh have been coloring lately come from his poetic lyrical days. Now he wants to spin them as a marketing crap. OK, a man has to make a living, but there is a line one should draw, the line where we indeed care for a sensitive person who drew those poetic cartoons staring at a gaping void not at a marketing memorandum. And there will be yet another book where Hugh spins the poetry into a cheap DIY hackery.

Hugh,

Re: balls, brains and backbone.

Thanks for having the “balls” to call it the way you see it, the “backbone” to stand your ground, and the “brains” to argue without personalizing it.

Best, Robin

As an observer to the creation of ‘Nobody Cares’, it was done when Hugh first started dealing with people in the wine business, and while only he knows for sure, I think he wanted to communicate to the wine community that “nobody cares” about their winey- pretentiousness- and, that wine, like art, and other things, can have a meaning outside the usual bullshit espoused by the people who are in the ‘know’. But, like most of Hugh’s work, you can apply to anything you want.

Certainly, Hugh is a great believer in human goodness and potential, so I am CERTAIN that this cartoon does not reflect any disbelief in goodness of people.

Hehe, I looked at the cartoon and thought “I *so* get that. And then I read the comment thread and felt a little disturbed 🙂

I still get it.

My old high school maths teacher, Mr Pearce – God bless him, had a sign up in his classroom: A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths are a statistic. Extend that thinking to this cartoon. You wife and kids care no end. The other 6 billion people couldn’t give a rat’s arse. They won’t give you their attention, you have to earn it.

“Pro­bably the har­dest thing for a young adult to learn is JUST HOW LITTLE the rest of the world cares about you.”

I’d say that’s only true for some young adults, and for those, it’s natural because you’re moving from childhood where you think the whole world *revolves* around you.

I love how today’s newsletter cube grenade and the Nobody Cares cartoon go together. Forget young adults. I know plenty of full-grown adults who think that every rude or oblivious freeway driver has a personal vendetta against them or that every market checkout girl’s or boy’s g’mornin’ is a flirtation. Tsk.
But, back to thread: we live in a new world when it comes to communication. (This includes advertising/marketing.) Hugh has created a new art form that allows real human feelings and profound thought and observation to be expressed in quick bits that may seem small, but their impact is big. The work itself reflects caring about the human condition. His brilliant ability to engage people by social media sure has it all over those artists still crawling through the NY/LA gallery scene, engaging only a handful of elites at a time–they may as well be selling buggy whips. (Not the right analogy, but you know what I mean.)

all of you need to quit your whining, find something constructive to do besides fapping to cheesy porn on the net and having silly ass little keyboard wars because it still makes you all look like retards, get over it, and accept the fact that nobody cares, have a nice day:).