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I love art like this, but does it require any special skill? Color data for each bubble can be generated using a python script. Palette can also be generated computationally. I am not diminishing the artists work or effort, but in the future, will art be prized for skill and novelty? Or will it be dismissed as "anyone can do that" ?
It's indeed a lovely work this artist creates. Should be quite satisfying to work with bubble wrap like that, and earn a living. Good News Network in general has content that elicits good feelings. Not such good news and good feeling are the 11 trackers on the page. But I guess they also have to earn a living.
> When he started out, Hart was only able to inject a few cells at a time before having to step back to review his progress. He’s since invented a computer algorithm that gives him a working bird’s eye view. While it makes the process faster, it’s still time-consuming. A cool hacker project would be to make a “bubble printer” with an automatic injector that given an image will try to reproduce it in bubble wrap.
I agree with you. At the same time, I suspect that the act of filling each bubble by hand is an important part of the process for this artist.
Because if you look at any picture objectively, you think "Anyone could do that", which is why a lot of people pull up their noses at art, and by extension, anyone pursuing a career as an artist.
But art where the process is part of it is just one of the many branches of the art world. A lot of people consume the arts on a regular basis without even considering it. UX is part of it, TV shows, films, video games, basically all media is an expression of art and will have a small army of artists working on them.
I love art like this, but does it require any special skill? Color data for each bubble can be generated using a python script. Palette can also be generated computationally. I am not diminishing the artists work or effort, but in the future, will art be prized for skill and novelty? Or will it be dismissed as "anyone can do that" ?
Also you're answering your own question there, by dismissing the thing as "anyone can do that" yourself. In theory, anyone can do that, in practice, few / nobody does that.
It's easy but a low blow to stand on the sideline going "I could do that, I just don't wanna".
I love art like this, but does it require any special skill? Color data for each bubble can be generated using a python script. Palette can also be generated computationally. I am not diminishing the artists work or effort, but in the future, will art be prized for skill and novelty? Or will it be dismissed as "anyone can do that" ?
Art is not about skill anymore in the (post-)modern world.
> When he started out, Hart was only able to inject a few cells at a time before having to step back to review his progress. He’s since invented a computer algorithm that gives him a working bird’s eye view. While it makes the process faster, it’s still time-consuming. A cool hacker project would be to make a “bubble printer” with an automatic injector that given an image will try to reproduce it in bubble wrap.