Coming out of retirement... paint the rock for Richmond!!!

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BigOrangeVols said:
How you gonna start a thread and you ain't even helping
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I had every intention of painting but between unexpected events at work and with my son im not going to be able to get out there. Ppl dont realize its not a quick thing to do. Between travel to and from the rock, trip to home depot and the actual time it takes to paint its about a 4-5 hour investment. Also im pretty glad i didnt do ktnow seeing how negative some of you bastards are. Good lord. Its not an easy thing to do. Its a huge and uneven surface and most ppl,myself included, dont posses much artistic talent. Could it have been cleaner and better organized? Yes, but lets not completely disregard these kids efforts. Everyone on here talks a lot of trash but other than a small handful of ppl, ive rarely ever had much help actually painting it.
 
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They could do The Song as a voiceover like at the beginning of The Fellowship of the Ring. Then begin the series with the poisoning of the trees and the stealing of the Silmarils..oh my that would be cool.
 
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Ertel said:
I had every intention of painting but between unexpected events at work and with my son im not going to be able to get out there. Ppl dont realize its not a quick thing to do. Between travel to and from the rock, trip to home depot and the actual time it takes to paint its about a 4-5 hour investment. Also im pretty glad i didnt do ktnow seeing how negative some of you bastards are. Good lord. Its not an easy thing to do. Its a huge and uneven surface and most ppl,myself included, dont posses much artistic talent. Could it have been cleaner and better organized? Yes, but lets not completely disregard these kids efforts. Everyone on here talks a lot of trash but other than a small handful of ppl, ive rarely ever had much help actually painting it.
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Just to make sure you know, this was a comment made on a different thread where someone else was suggesting that people re-paint the rock. This post that you quoted wasn't calling you out. (You probably already knew this, but I wanted to make sure).
 
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Ertel said:
I had every intention of painting but between unexpected events at work and with my son im not going to be able to get out there. Ppl dont realize its not a quick thing to do. Between travel to and from the rock, trip to home depot and the actual time it takes to paint its about a 4-5 hour investment. Also im pretty glad i didnt do ktnow seeing how negative some of you bastards are. Good lord. Its not an easy thing to do. Its a huge and uneven surface and most ppl,myself included, dont posses much artistic talent. Could it have been cleaner and better organized? Yes, but lets not completely disregard these kids efforts. Everyone on here talks a lot of trash but other than a small handful of ppl, ive rarely ever had much help actually painting it.
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Excuses..excuses..you know how VN feels about excuses...just kiddin. I understand.
 
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turambar85 said:
Just to make sure you know, this was a comment made on a different thread where someone else was suggesting that people re-paint the rock. This post that you quoted wasn't calling you out. (You probably already knew this, but I wanted to make sure).
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I did not know this lol thanks
 
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I made a little fun earlier but it wasn't serious. Thanks guys.

For large uneven surfaces, the stencil method can be a life and time saver.
Poster board for medium areas and I have a few 4 x 300' rolls of paper for larger areas.
"create" in a controlled enviroment, then stick and spray. Or cheat as I like to call it when I do so.
 
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chargervol said:
I made a little fun earlier but it wasn't serious. Thanks guys.

For large uneven surfaces, the stencil method can be a life and time saver.
Poster board for medium areas and I have a few 4 x 300' rolls of paper for larger areas.
"create" in a controlled enviroment, then stick and spray. Or cheat as I like to call it when I do so.
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Yeah, I would like to second this. I think that most of the comments are slightly tongue-in-cheek. It's definitely appreciated, and it is easily better than not having a painted rock at all. While it may be a bit rough, that's definitely to be expected from people without rock-painting skills.
 
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Whole rock thing is pretty simple really. Leave it like it is and tell Richmond it's his fault it looks like that. Tell him if he had committed earlier the rock would have been awesome, but now he's waited so long that that's all the paint that was left.

Guilt trip works wonders sometimes.
 
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turambar85 said:
Yeah, I would like to second this. I think that most of the comments are slightly tongue-in-cheek. It's definitely appreciated, and it is easily better than not having a painted rock at all. While it may be a bit rough, that's definitely to be expected from people without rock-painting skills.
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Oh, I laughed. Well put sir.
 
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Volunteer_Kirby said:
Problem is it looks like crap and its on the weekend before national signing day. Literally our last chance to impress recruits and some kids thought they could go help out by painting the rock. Don't paint the rock unless you have someone with some experience in...ya know...art? Or common sense (like someone who knows how to measure and get letters/lines straight)? Or has done this before? These kids went at it like a bunch of amateurs so this is what we get.

Not even going to give them an A for effort because they are probably some stupid freshmen from some local frat. And I hate stupid freshmen from local frats. So yeah I hope someone fixes this. Since we're Tennessee and we only strive for the best of the best and....someone please do it! The Rock is too good of a recruiting tool to use it like this....

The Rock in its current state:
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100% agree

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