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Re: 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

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Post by corty »

Forgeties79 wrote: post #144
_xnmw wrote: post #123

Earlier 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?

Ultimately, it is up to the eye or ear of the beholder: I neither like the Beatles nor Mozart. Give me some Polka and I'm happy.

While there may be differences in skill of the composers and musicians, that is largely irrelevant. Art only is if it is appreciated. Complexity and skill without any appreciable quality is busywork. However, appreciation of the masses comes with hitting the average taste.

Re: 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

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Post by corty »

blt wrote: post #147
_xnmw wrote: post #123

Earlier 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…

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.

Contemporary art is very hard to discover because society had so little time to filter and decide what it liked. That's why old art seems so much better-categorized in hindisght.

Re: 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

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Post by corty »

scubbo wrote: post #137
coronadisaster wrote: post #118

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Although I don't really like them, http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/ is made bad on purpose ... I have never seen one that bad actually. What I hate most about them is usually the ads, but in that case it is that it doesn't let me read at my pace (which is a lot worst).

> http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/ is made bad on purpose... Really? I don't like them either, but what's specifically bad about this? It's among the least-bad implementations of a carousel I've seen: * Next/Previous buttons so I can override the timing * Auto-progression timer resets when you click next/previous * Loops round to the beginning when you reach the end and click "next" * Has a clickable progress-indicato…

For one, timing isn't scaled to reading length of the texts.

Re: 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

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Post by thih9 »

airstrike wrote: post #62
hodgesrm wrote: post #5

What an insanely beautiful model. It makes me happy to think that humans find the time to do things that have no value beyond their beauty and the pleasure they give to people who work on them.

Second time I link to this video this month, but Sir Roger Scruton has a truly impactful message on this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHw4MMEnmpc Can't find one without Portuguese subtitles, so hope that's OK

Is there a summary or could someone summarise the message for those who cannot watch the video at the moment?

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Post by rimliu »

p_l wrote: post #44
ishi wrote: post #32

Building paper airplane models was a very popular hobby in Israel (and probably other countries) during the 1960's. Each issue of the Israeli Air Force Journal came with a model which you would painstakingly cut and glue. Here are some examples of what these models looked like: http://starry-side.com/wpe/wordpress/index.php/2019/08/08/ol... Of course, this guy is on a whole different level of detail and dedication (p…

Was also very popular in communist era Poland, including people extending the paper models to be capable of self-propelled taxiing and certain set of "moveable" features implemented as extras.

Mały Modelarz, right?

Re: 1:60 scale Boeing 777 made from manila folders

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Post by caf »

kevingrahl wrote: post #138
caf wrote: post #129

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Even electric vehicles use the AA style battery metaphor in their UI.

Perhaps not the best example for how abstract something is. The 18650 battery cells that most electric vehicles use looks very similar to an AA battery. You certainly couldn’t tell them apart from an icon.

A fair point. Do the lithium cells have the protruding button on the positive end?

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Post by yreg »

scubbo wrote: post #137
coronadisaster wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Although I don't really like them, http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/ is made bad on purpose ... I have never seen one that bad actually. What I hate most about them is usually the ads, but in that case it is that it doesn't let me read at my pace (which is a lot worst).

> http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/ is made bad on purpose... Really? I don't like them either, but what's specifically bad about this? It's among the least-bad implementations of a carousel I've seen: * Next/Previous buttons so I can override the timing * Auto-progression timer resets when you click next/previous * Loops round to the beginning when you reach the end and click "next" * Has a clickable progress-indicato…

Yep, it's better than the one used in OP's link.

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Post by satori99 »

c3534l wrote: post #94
scotty79 wrote: post #79

Apparently 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 have heard anecdotally that a significant and growing number of children and young people have difficulty reading analog clocks.

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Post by yreg »

jugg1es wrote: post #150
yreg wrote: post #64

Since 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.

Steam doesn't use a carousel, it has a gallery with thumbnails. Those two are not the same thing.

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Post by growlist »

bosswipe wrote: post #117
_xnmw wrote: post #108

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No! He is defending the impetus of artists to use beauty as a motivator for their works. He is not diminishing the subjective variations in different cultural beauties, or claiming only one kind of beauty exists. The problem is that modern Western art no longer considers beauty itself a motivator. And that’s a problem because beautific recognition is a deeply human need.

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.

...and also likely more deliberately demoralising and horrific art being created today than ever.
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