As a young adult I could absorb myself in projects like this...in recent years, mid career, it just doesn't seem to happen. I can't make myself care enough about anything to the extent it's very hard to imagine how someone could do anything like this project. Anyone have a suggestion for how to find that again? Maybe I lost the ability to focus on anything I'm not required to do to get paid. Or maybe I'm mildly depressed and don't know it...how does someone do this?
1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders
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#162As a young adult I could absorb myself in projects like this...in recent years, mid career, it just doesn't seem to happen. I can't make myself care enough about anything to the extent it's very hard to imagine how someone could do anything like this project. Anyone have a suggestion for how to find that again? Maybe I lost the ability to focus on anything I'm not required to do to get paid. Or maybe I'm mildly depre…
it's not that you need to "care enough" - it's something you cannot stop yourself from doing.
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#163It's always struck me as bizarre that it's the convention to refer to length when using the word "scale". When I read it my mind is naturally inclined to think "volume" and I have to remind myself that 1:60 scale does not mean the model is 1/60 the size of the original.
It's not 1/60 the size of the original?
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#164This level of dedication is so inspiring.
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#165Since 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.
When you have a team of designers who can't agree on which image to put on the frontpage, the dreaded carousel is frequently the result. The more bitter their disagreement, the shorter the timeout on the slideshow.
Another designer here. My experience is the same as the sibling comment: I have never known a carousel to be the result of two designers disagreeing.
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#166Earlier 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.
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…
The banana taped to a wall comes to mind.
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#167Earlier 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…
The burj khalifa is vastly more impressive than the notre dame from an architectural perspective.
Any of the top 100 movies on imdb can stand its own as far as capturing the imagination and delivering enjoyment as any of the great symphonies of old.
Modern art is different, but it is not inferior. I would argue today’s art vastly exceeds any period in history in scale and imagination. And beauty, well, that’s a personal matter.
Would you argue traditional japanese sword forging produced superior weapons to today’s because nobody makes swords that way anymore?
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#168As a young adult I could absorb myself in projects like this...in recent years, mid career, it just doesn't seem to happen. I can't make myself care enough about anything to the extent it's very hard to imagine how someone could do anything like this project. Anyone have a suggestion for how to find that again? Maybe I lost the ability to focus on anything I'm not required to do to get paid. Or maybe I'm mildly depre…
Stimulants and/or a psychiatric disorder that causes boundless energy. What you're not seeing is the crash and subsequent time-lapse footage of him sleeping for 5 solid days after.
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#169Nice.
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