Reminds me of someone who makes car scale models mainly out of silver: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSS7uBzDOio
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#142Request - any books/articles anyone can recommend on the human mind's instinctive need to become obsessed with something? Periodically, like many others, my mind becomes obsessed with something and I need to learn/build until it ceases to be interesting which can range from days to years. Like hoarding, I think there's probably an evolutionary drive in this, but curious if there are good resources to better understan…
Not a book or article, but Adam Savage's TED talk comes to mind. I can't remember if he touches on the same topics in his book, but he often refers to it as the creative obsessive.
https://www.ted.com/talks/adam_savage_my_obsession_with_obje...
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#143Apparently manila folders are sheets of stiff paper folded in half. They look like folder icon in windows or other OSes. I have never seen one in real life. :-)
Hour glass, floppy disk, envelope, AA style battery for laptops, and now manilla folders go on the pile of icons that are too abstract for people to recognize anymore. What next, people won't recognize the sheet of paper for document anymore? Clipboards are probably already weird now.
I think when it comes to folders it's not due to time but rather regional differences. I don't think this particular style of folders is something that was popular in my country bureaucracies.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's also a bad point, there's more beautiful art being created today than ever. But many other artists have different motivations. If Scruton is saying that only beautiful art should be produced than "dour gatekeeping" seems appropriate.
> there's more beautiful art being created today than ever. Except there’s not. Where is the Notre Dame of our time? The Mozart (who was well recognized in his time)? Who can be compared in our time to the sheer talent of Michelangelo? Who still produces ballets like Swan Lake? Yes, we have beautiful art in our time, but you have to be blind to not see the difference in the sheer majesty and scale of pre modern Weste…
I don’t know how you could possibly objectively claim that pre-modern western art is “exponentially better.”
Are The Beatles not as significant as Mozart?
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, I’m regards to what gets produced there’s an awful lot of beautiful art these days. There is also a line of criticism that the institutions of fine art (education, galleries, museums, grants, etc) have, in the last few decades, distorted their previous value system of beauty (complex as it is) to focus on more conceptual and academic issues. If you’re interested in hearing this analysis in detail, check out The…
Dave Hickey. I double-took for a moment there :)
Oh shucks! Thank you, it gets me every time
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#146What a great story. I was wondering if a story about this guy have been posted before and indeed, it was.
A Kid Spent 9 Years Building a Detailed Paper Model of a Boeing Jet (2017)
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19448365
The great takeaway for me from the story is his quote related to how he did all these things.
"I was not born with these skills, I developed them over time. And the original model was actually pretty crude. And I've really learned a lot over the past number of years, and that's how I've gotten to where I am at now."
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's also a bad point, there's more beautiful art being created today than ever. But many other artists have different motivations. If Scruton is saying that only beautiful art should be produced than "dour gatekeeping" seems appropriate.
> there's more beautiful art being created today than ever. Except there’s not. Where is the Notre Dame of our time? The Mozart (who was well recognized in his time)? Who can be compared in our time to the sheer talent of Michelangelo? Who still produces ballets like Swan Lake? Yes, we have beautiful art in our time, but you have to be blind to not see the difference in the sheer majesty and scale of pre modern Weste…
Usually people who say things like this have made zero effort to discover contemporary art that they like. You list examples of old European art that can be found in a 7th grade textbook.
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
> there's more beautiful art being created today than ever. Except there’s not. Where is the Notre Dame of our time? The Mozart (who was well recognized in his time)? Who can be compared in our time to the sheer talent of Michelangelo? Who still produces ballets like Swan Lake? Yes, we have beautiful art in our time, but you have to be blind to not see the difference in the sheer majesty and scale of pre modern Weste…
I don’t know how you could possibly objectively claim that pre-modern western art is “exponentially better.” Are The Beatles not as significant as Mozart?
If you read his comments, you can definitely see why he can make lousy comparisons like that. He's miserable, looks up to murdering thugs, thinks all women are money thirsty whores. Is it any surprise that he would think the past is best regardless of anything you might point out. Incel culture is strong here too, weird how that dang guy does nothing about that while being a near fascist about supposed policy violations.
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#149Since we are on this forum, I'll take a bite: Carousels need to die. Everyone hates them, no one interacts with them unless they have to. The carousel doesn't work for the user and it doesn't work for the product. http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/ https://www.dgtlnk.com/blog/website-carousel/ The plane model is nice.
Like other generalizations, this is not absolute. Carousels have their place. I used one recently on a simple site which has three nouns in the name. Three small SVG icons scrolling in a carousel fit the theme.
However, I agree that they are terrible where a gallery of thumbnails would be more suitable. The controls and auto scroll always seem to be cross-purpose.
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#150Since we are on this forum, I'll take a bite: Carousels need to die. Everyone hates them, no one interacts with them unless they have to. The carousel doesn't work for the user and it doesn't work for the product. http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/ https://www.dgtlnk.com/blog/website-carousel/ The plane model is nice.
On boring websites, yea. But on Steam, I have definitely bought games after scrolling through that carousel.