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by qzxvwt 7y ago
it isn’t possible to create something that doesn’t serve a purpose. what “good” artists and other art professionals have that makes them experts is 1) an understanding of this fact, then 2) knowledge of semiotics and history among other rel
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by qzxvwt 7y ago
that has less to do with japan and more to do with the fact that niche music doesn’t attract laypeople. you can find the same kinds of shows all over the united states for example
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by qzxvwt 7y ago
i recently discovered that this approved list of things that currently matter actually has a name, it’s called the overton window: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window
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by qzxvwt 9y ago
I disagree, I think the keyword is $1, because at least for me as strictly a user (not a stakeholder or business owner) generating a meme is simply not worth that cost no matter how easy it is to pay it.
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by qzxvwt 9y ago
Modern "EDM" producers actually receive a lot of criticism for these practices from both critics/academics and laypeople. I think the massive commercial success and general enjoyment of this music actually comes from the spec
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by qzxvwt 9y ago
Seems like you're criticizing the powers that be that act as authorities for what should be considered art. The importance of this kind of criticism has been historically recognized by many artists and cultures for a long time [1][2][3
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by qzxvwt 9y ago
don't data centers and the rest of our electrical infrastructure still need natural gas and other limited resources to function?
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by qzxvwt 9y ago
Don't know if I agree with this assertion, but food for thought: “…as far as power is concerned, the streets are dead capital! Nothing of value to the power elite can be found on the streets, nor does this class need control of the str
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by qzxvwt 10y ago
Yeah if anything /pol/ is driving the success of it as a catalyst for thought, they're keeping it relevant and worthwhile. Idk much about Shia's intentions but never underestimate an artist's awareness of how such t
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by qzxvwt 10y ago
Well that's kind of like going to a library and complaining that nobody wants to chat. Art goes to the MoMA specifically to be "taken out of the world" and isolated.
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by qzxvwt 10y ago
Reminds me of something Putin said to journalists regarding global balance of power: "International Relations is much like mathematics — there is nothing personal about it."[1] [1] https://youtu.be/kqD8lIdIMRo?t=11
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by qzxvwt 10y ago
do you really think all art should be universally accessible and as convenient as possible? do you really think you can have meaningful experiences with that mindset?
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by qzxvwt 10y ago
A computer's capability for imitating a human doesn't take away the value of human-made art. If anything, it's another medium. Otherwise you're arguing that people don't care about understanding the human condition,
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by qzxvwt 10y ago
The arts/humanities maybe? Because the human intellect and human emotions will always be relevant and valuable to other humans. Sidenote: when I say "arts/humanities" I'm not just referring to entertainment but also
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by qzxvwt 10y ago
oh the humanities
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by qzxvwt 10y ago
The burden for some may be too much for leaving the country to be a more viable option than staying and fighting for change. Also some would argue that you can't run forever.
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by qzxvwt 10y ago
>the awesome lifestyle of flitting from grant to grant as a semi-celebrity in the international jet-set art world This reads like a snide remark toward art and artists in general... if it is, why?
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by qzxvwt 10y ago
Wow: Total number of operating satellites: 1,381 (includes launches through 12/31/15)[1] Wasn't aware that the +15,000 satellites (loosely defined) currently orbiting the Earth (according to SATCAT) are mostly junk... But one
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by qzxvwt 11y ago
Today rbobby submitted a video [1] explaining a new(ish?) "polymagnet" technology which earned 13 points, then 4 hours later iheredia posted the same topic [2] which currently has 331 points. It must be a bit of timing and titling
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by qzxvwt 11y ago
Could be, but that'd be an assumption at best, and "negging" at worst. Also, one could just as easily see a "massive" assignment as arrogance from the employer.
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by qzxvwt 11y ago
I was a product architect in advertising for a brief period. About half the job involved writing all sorts of technical documentation, including functional specifications for developers, internal and user-facing API docs, and user guides fo
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by qzxvwt 11y ago
For further reading that spans more broadly with the underlying idea here, I recommend: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/objectivity I'm not done with it but so far it's been an epistemological history lesson t
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by qzxvwt 11y ago
Am I wrong to think about the "graphical" aspect of visual programming languages as another layer of abstraction? If this is the case, doesn't that take some power away from these users, in the sense that their capabilities a
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by qzxvwt 11y ago
mattdotc's idea of a Real Hipster in the actual fringe, trend-setting-in-2016 sense may or may not be accurate, but that's not necessarily critical to his/her intention behind using "hipster" — that people are buyin
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by qzxvwt 11y ago
Super interesting, thanks.
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by qzxvwt 11y ago
>A contemporary aesthetic that the fools in our art departments crafted in the 1960s under the guiding hand of the CIA Wait what?
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by qzxvwt 11y ago
Better here than hosted on some volatile service that'll be gone again in 5 years.
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by qzxvwt 11y ago
Baking soda is pretty versatile. I wash my face with it, and I bet one could use it in combo with some other natural minerals or oils to make an effective toothpaste.
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by qzxvwt 11y ago
Thanks for introducing me to this extension. I've been using my hand to cover news feeds on fb, twitter, etc when I need to go in and respond to a message or something. Although it's easy for me to do that as social news feeds don
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by qzxvwt 11y ago
I believe entertainment media to be more powerful than people give credit for. But yeah, people should have the freedom to take creative liberties in this context, so we should at least be having an ongoing discourse about it as it fills mo

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