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Pleasant visual confusion
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A big question I’ve always had re; art is;
“does art require talent?”
If your answer is “no” like mine has always been, then there are some fascinating discussions to be had around DALL-E Image generation and what role it plays in the world of the visual arts.
Because I’ll tell you this– coming up with the best prompts is a mix of trial and error + creative thinking. Maybe sprinkled with an intended message (there was no message I had in mind for the below)….
And while no talent was involved there would have been if this was made by a human. And if it were, I would absolutely hang the below on my wall. But since it wasn’t, I dont know that I would? Actually who am I kidding, if a robot painted this with oil on canvas, I would totally put it up.
I guess my provocation is– whats the role of the artist in today’s art world? It seems to me like it has diminished. Which is good. Art becomes about the art and the relationship between the work and the viewer.
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“The truth is paywalled, but the lies are free.”
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I like this thought a lot:
“It just occurred to me that saying “bless you” after a sneeze is one of the most outwardly absurd customs we hold to, founded in an antiquated superstition. Really it’s not clear to me that there’s anything about the subject of the interaction which makes it meaningful; a sneeze is completely ordinary and uneventful, like yawning or blinking.
But that doesn’t make me less inclined to say the words. In context they seem to serve as an expression of good faith and congeniality. And that speaks to me of a sort of arbitrariness behind our most meaningful moments, which amusingly Žižek talks about in relation to love. Particularly in this time of hyper-curated everything, I crave moments of randomness, invest them with more meaning than I invest in things which are intended to be meaningful.
That’s a kind of Sisyphean gesture to me — an act of conscious superstition. It’s the way for philosophy to embrace the obscurity of poetry and culture, by treating it as simultaneously a trifling game and the most important thing there is.”
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A fun story behind an image I’ve always loved:
Apparently, a woman saw a poster that said “found: pet” with a picture of a cat. She found it funny that it said “pet” rather than cat, so just for fun, she decided to make her own poster.
After putting a dozen or so up, she starting receiving non stop phone calls for weeks. And people who called fell into 1 of 3 camps…
People who called to friendly let her know that it was in fact not a cat.
People who called claiming the cat was theirs
People who called just to insult her intelligence for thinking it was a cat.
This story got me thinking…. What a cool, fun, and cheap research device?
How else can research be done that functions like this? Social experiments where the way people behave gives you the information you need…
I have a few ideas I’m going to try and flesh out, but would love to hear anything that comes to mind.
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Somehow I’ve never seen the sub-qualifiers for the 3 C model before… I think it would be even better if they didn’t try to stick with further alliteration, but valuable nonetheless.
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This is what I think people who only make decisions based on stats look:
Don’t let the map appear more real than the land.
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The most valuable lesson a teacher can give: how to question authority.
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A hill I’ll die on: Influencers destroy ideas.
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