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

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Post by growlist »

Joeri wrote: post #167
_xnmw wrote: post #123

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> 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 perso…

> The burj khalifa is vastly more impressive than the notre dame from an architectural perspective.

Seriously? Or are you being deliberately provocative? As I understand it the Burj is considered pretty vulgar.

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

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

saagarjha wrote: post #140
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #125

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No. Apple doesn't natively support Java on iOS, but there is an app called Pico[0], that supposedly acts like a Java IDE. It doesn't seem to be a particularly popular program, but it's the only one I've seen that does it. I don't know if this[1] ever bore fruit. The transcoder Java->ObjC isn't a bad idea. The languages have a lot of similarities. [0] https://apps.apple.com/in/app/pico-compiler-java-compiler-jd... [1]…

Enough that Apple offered Cocoa bindings in it for a while!

At one time, I think that Steve Jobs wanted Java to be a native language for Apple development, but it ended up getting sidelined by Objective-C.

Developers had a difficult time, adjusting to ObjC. It’s very different from C, whereas Java was familiar to almost everyone.

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

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Post by totalZero »

schmilk wrote: post #103
SillaDeRuedas wrote: post #95

I can't believe this silly thing is in the frontpage.

It's the hacker news "culture". As much as this site loves to hate on reddit (and I don't disagree with reddit hate), this community has its own cringe and pretentiousness which can be seen in silly articles like this reaching the front page. Edit for the downvoters: what does this article have to with technology besides the fact that some self proclaimed hacker thinks this article is interesting? This isn't hacker n…

Do you work for Airbus?

Research, design, printing, assembly...it's all there in the article. I find it thought-provoking that an extremely complex machine can be represented in great detail with so mundane a material.

The re-creation of a 3D form from a non-rigid, non-ductile 2D material requires a surprising intuition for topology and projection.

Even if you just see this model as a low-tech knick-knack, I don't see what's pretentious about appreciating a model of one of the world's best-known aircraft, made of one of the most ubiquitous and accessible materials on earth. You could show this to a group of children in the countryside of a third-world country and they, too, would be amazed by it.

Nobody cares if you don't want to visit HN any more because you don't like the articles that are collectively upvoted here.

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

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Post by portroyal »

thih9 wrote: post #174
airstrike wrote: post #62

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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?

This is the summary on the bitchute link:

Prof. Roger Scruton presents a provocative essay on the importance of beauty in the arts and in our lives.

In the 20th century, Scruton argues, art, architecture and music turned their backs on beauty, making a cult of ugliness and leading us into a spiritual desert.

Using the thoughts of philosophers from Plato to Kant, and by talking to artists Michael Craig-Martin and Alexander Stoddart, Scruton analyses where art went wrong and presents his own impassioned case for restoring beauty to its traditional position at the center of our civilization.

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

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Post by wil93 »

beenBoutIT wrote: post #168
cheerlessbog wrote: post #161

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 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.

"The project has been in progress since May 2008"

He really just enjoys doing it :)

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

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Post by schmilk »

dahart wrote: post #133
schmilk wrote: post #103

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It's the hacker news "culture". As much as this site loves to hate on reddit (and I don't disagree with reddit hate), this community has its own cringe and pretentiousness which can be seen in silly articles like this reaching the front page. Edit for the downvoters: what does this article have to with technology besides the fact that some self proclaimed hacker thinks this article is interesting? This isn't hacker n…

I didn’t downvote, but just to explain what I see here: you used negative value judgements with words like “cringe” and “pretentious”, and then your question assumes that HN articles must be about technology. It’s worth re-reading the guidelines, because the definition of what’s invited and acceptable here is (and always has been) precisely that which hackers find interesting: “On-Topic: Anything that good hackers wo…

Why would I spend anymore time on this cringey lifestyle magazine? Site used to be alright. I've said my complaint, responded to you, and now I'm gone

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

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Post by schmilk »

totalZero wrote: post #183
schmilk wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's the hacker news "culture". As much as this site loves to hate on reddit (and I don't disagree with reddit hate), this community has its own cringe and pretentiousness which can be seen in silly articles like this reaching the front page. Edit for the downvoters: what does this article have to with technology besides the fact that some self proclaimed hacker thinks this article is interesting? This isn't hacker n…

Do you work for Airbus? Research, design, printing, assembly...it's all there in the article. I find it thought-provoking that an extremely complex machine can be represented in great detail with so mundane a material. The re-creation of a 3D form from a non-rigid, non-ductile 2D material requires a surprising intuition for topology and projection. Even if you just see this model as a low-tech knick-knack, I don't se…

Cool story

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

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Post by Forgeties79 »

corty wrote: post #171
Forgeties79 wrote: post #144

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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.

I don’t think an ability to hit the lowest common denominator is necessarily an indicator of artistic value. What is considered “high art” or “refined and complex” is often partially a function of class distinctions and access. The Beatles could’ve been treated like a symphony in a different context, as silly as that may sound.

Video games come to mind. There are some indie games that are, quite frankly, beautiful works of art. Outer Wilds comes to mind, as does Celeste.

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Post by z2210558 »

siavosh wrote: post #90
philshem wrote: post #78

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I don’t think it explains much in a scientific sense, but with the theme of passion and obsession, I really enjoyed The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Orchid_Thief And this famous quote from that book: > “The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people, too many directions to go. I was starting to believe that the reason…

Thanks for the interesting reference. The drive to reduce uncertainty could certainly be a hypothesis in explaining animal curiosity and its persistence through natural selection for a population. I guess I'm more intrigued by the individual phenomena of obsession. The psychological aspects of my occasional obsessions are so vivid to me still. Years back when I got into woodworking, for example, I remember just visua…

This is beautiful.
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