He Can Out-Etch A Sketch You
By Whitney, written on Oct. 23, 2008
Not many people would consider the Etch A Sketch an artistic medium — mainly our associations with the tiny red knobby board are preschool, our inability to draw anything more than horizontal and vertical lines and yarn blobs, and ultimately, frustration.
But for Rick Nuanez, the Etch A Sketch seems to be his medium of choice. Armed with no previous drawing experience at all (except for “finger painting as a kid” he says in a Seattle Post-Intelligencer interview) he’s managed to create some startlingly detailed images including but not limited to classics like the Mona Lisa and Etch A Sketh drawings of current VP-candidates Sarah Palin and Joe Biden.
Click the link for his blog, which is updated regularly, and contains videos of him Etch-a-Sketchin’ it:
http://etchasketchist.blogspot.com/
3 Responses to “He Can Out-Etch A Sketch You”
I found information linking Rick Nuanez and “The Etch A Sketchist” from another blog, “Doodlers Anonymous.” If your statement is true, then that blog made the mistake as well.
However, this false information has not only been printed one in a blog, but two: another website has atributed “The Etch A Sketchist” to Rick Nuanez as well.
You can look at the Doodlers Anonymous here:
http://www.doodlersanonymous.com/entry.php?entryID=1058#comments
You can look at Tinpot.org here, which also links the artist with the blog.
http://www.tinpot.net/minibytes/blog/archives/whatever/etch_a_sketchist.html
I have used various sources to collect the information I have presented on the blog, which, I had assumed, were reliable due to repeated reported information. I did NOT, as you imply, construct this blog post without knowing what I was doing.
What is frustrating is that you have singled out The Filter blog and decided to bash on this site and not the other two sites that have presented false information, cutting the information flow at the bud. Doodlers Anonymous has had its information up since October 22, a day before I decided to cite information from it, and Tinpot.net has had its information up since September 24, 2007–more than a year ago.
Interesting. So it’s my responsibility, as the injured party, to monitor the information flow of the entire internet and make sure false information doesn’t get repeated. So that’s how journalism works these days. Good to know.
It’s also interesting that you used two random blogs as sources. Maybe you shouldn’t do that next time. I’ve got my contact info right up on my blog. I respond to emails when people email me. I did NOT mean to imply that you don’t know what you’re doing. But rather, that what you are doing is not good enough. Your technique and your process were insufficient when it comes to the task of presenting truthful information. Instead of explaining to me the steps you took in doing your job, you should be thinking about why those steps failed you and what you can do in the future to make sure you don’t make the same mistake again.
Also on my blog are a bunch of YouTube clips of videos related to my sketches but which are not videos of me sketching. Which other random blog did you pull the idea that I post videos of myself “Etch-a-sketchin’ em”? Or did you just make that up?
And why are you bickering with me in comments when you should be correcting your story and apologizing for your mistake? I don’t mean to be “frustrating” or “bashing” you but, uh seriously, WTF?
Is this a student paper blog? Great. I think we’ve got a “teachable moment” here. Something about the difference in reliability between print and online media. The dangers of blogging without fact checking. I dunno. Talk to your professors about it. There’s definitely an essay to be written about this though.
I am not Rick Nuanez. Rick Nuanez is not The Etchasketchist. Rick Nuanez did not draw that picture of Christopher Columbus. I did. What’s even funnier is, there are no videos of me sketching on my site or YouTube. I suggest you guys take a moment to figure out how this piece of misinformation came to be published here. This time it’s about some goofy Etch-a-Sketch artists, but next time it could be about something important.