Digital Artist Pulls Space Invaders 9/11 Art After “Immature” Response to His Work
by Chad Lakkis on August 24, 2008 at 8:23 pm
Edric Stanley, digital artist and all around space cadet, began to pout over the public outcry that ensued when Kotaku brought his “Space Invaders blows up the World Trade Center” art to the attention of the internet masses.
Upset with what the artist deemed an “immature” response to his work, Stanley has requested that his work be removed from the Leipzig Games Convention show floor. The image above is a photo of the letter he wrote which now stands in the spot his art once was.
In this he claims that he was not pressured to remove his work, and states that:
“Due to these profound misunderstandings, I simply feel that from an artistic point of view, the work has lost the ability to have any valuable impact, poetic or otherwise.”
Wow, someone is definitely not taking his meds.
Source: Kotaku
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on August 24, 2008 10:41 pm
I got an Idea, lets crowd his family into a building and blow it up, then whenever he starts to get upset about it he should be told to stop being such an immature cry baby.
on August 24, 2008 10:44 pm
Well, to make the perfect analogy, one would have to create a game where Space Invaders recreate the attack on his family and present it at a convention as art.
on August 24, 2008 10:48 pm
yeah, but, his family would have to be dead in a way that would upset him. Like a car crash then you show his dead family in the car and space invaders above it reigning down destruction.
on August 24, 2008 10:52 pm
Suffice it to say, the game is over for this artist.
on August 24, 2008 11:17 pm
This is a perfect example of everyone in the US thinking the world revolves around them.
on August 24, 2008 11:43 pm
you must be European…..
on August 24, 2008 11:43 pm
Thousands of people are slaughtered every day all around the world, but nobody cares about that because it’s not Americans. Then Americans get killed and they think they are soooo special that we have to be reminded of it all the goddamn time. “OMG! We got blowed up! I thought we were above all that!” Try living outside of the U.S. for a while and you might start to see why everyone hates us.
Do you think we should stop making war games because people’s family members died in the real wars? Should GTA be banned to spare the feelings of the families of cops (and hookers) that were killed in the line of duty? Should Microsoft stop making Flight Simulator because people really die in plane crashes? Get over it! Stop being so fucking sensitive!
This “public outcry” is a slap in the nuts to so many of the freedoms we fight for that I’m surprised anyone feels like he is the dick instead of wanting to kick the collective over-sensitive douchebags of America right in their pompous teeth.
on August 24, 2008 11:56 pm
At the same time Dan, there is a “too soon” factor, and I believe this was too soon.
If someone decided to make an amusement park ride where you board a sinking ship in ice cold water a few years after the Titanic sunk I am going to guess it wouldn’t go over well either.
on August 24, 2008 11:58 pm
Please, don’t put me to sleep, no one in the US has an artwork collection that shows WW2 concentration camp victims in mass graves with Kratos dancing on them and calling it art.
when the congo river was clogged with dead bodies from Idi Amin’s mass murders I don’t remember any “artwork” here in the US that had the character from jungle hunt swinging over them. I love how smug you people are. So, what you are implying is it is OK for them to “create” this art because it is Americans that were killed?
on August 25, 2008 12:32 am
Don’t like it? Don’t look at it.
It’s sad that he took this down.
on August 25, 2008 12:39 am
Who are you referring to when you say “you people”? And everything you are talking about? No, there was no artwork about it in the U.S. because nobody gives a fuck. As I said before, Americans are the only people Americans really care about.
And Chad, when will it be okay to start talking about it? Is it okay to make fun of Jesus? It’s been 2,000 years now. How about the dinosaurs, is it okay to make fun of them?
More people died in the war following 9/11 than the actual terrorist attack, so do you think all those millions of inconsiderate dicks need to stop playing Call of Duty 4? Yes, it’s a made up country in the game, but we all know the inspiration.
on August 25, 2008 12:40 am
so says the guy that thinks the most horrible thing in the world is someone who prefers the playstation 3 over and Xbox 360.
on August 25, 2008 12:42 am
Sure Dan, I think we should design a game called “Jesus: Dinosaur Hunter”. You write the words and I will do the pictures.
on August 25, 2008 12:43 am
Let’s do it! Inspiration comes from the strangest of places…
on August 25, 2008 1:00 am
Frankly, I really didn’t care about the Artwork as much as the Hypocrisy. and as for the Holocaust, Dan, You think that nobody cared? also I was a kid during the time Idi Amin was Dictator of Uganda and it was on the news, in the newspapers. Time magazine. learn some damn history, man.
on August 25, 2008 1:17 am
Just because something is on the news doesn’t mean anybody actually cares. On top of that, most people don’t even watch the news. As for the Holocaust, I think that was completely different because there are (and were) tons of Jews in the U.S., and significantly more people were killed.
I’m curious what you think is hypocritical about this, and how me “learning some damn history” is a counterpoint to anything I’ve said. And I still want to know who you were referring to when you said “you people”.
on August 25, 2008 1:26 am
From a professional psychological point of view, I would have to say that the “art” is not very good, but I do think it is about time we all move on with our lives and stop letting this event define us.
I mostly agree with Mr. Landis. And nobody watches the news because they are all watching my show.
on August 25, 2008 1:27 am
smug asshats……and bald guys
on August 25, 2008 1:32 am
So you love how smug smug people are, and bald people are also apparently automatically smug? You gonna take that, Dr. Phil?
on August 25, 2008 1:49 am
I’ll tell you what is hypocritical, Like any other county gives a rats a$$ what is happening in another country. All governments and their people are exactly the same. worried about themselves and what is happening withing their borders. Nothing annoys me more when someones makes the statement ” Everyone in the US thinks the world revolves around them.” because it belies what is human nature. people are more or less the same everywhere, they want to take care of their family and live a decent life. Greeks, Isralis, Germans, Japanese ect. For someone to demonize a whole group of people for doing Exactly what they themselves do is hypocritical.
on August 25, 2008 9:47 am
Obviously not everyone in the U.S. is concerned with only the U.S. I’m not sure if you were referring to me or to the artist in this story, but I’m pretty sure that neither one of us is being hypocritical.
on August 26, 2008 9:35 am
I’m more interested in the accusations he laid at the feet of Kotaku. Saying that the guys at Kotaku deliberatly misquoted him and wrote what he said out of context is a heavy charge.
I wonder what Kotaku has to say to this.