All 5000 Images in Beeple’s $69M Magnum Opus:What I Found Isn’t So Pretty

Post by spoonjim » Thu, Mar 18, 2021, 6:47 PM UTC

masona wrote: post #173

pjc50 wrote: post #5

"We didn't need a preview": the content of the art isn't important. Like most NFTs, it's just a url that you can sign a hash of for dollars. What's more interesting is the allegation that this is "tape painting": sold to an accomplice for the purpose of promoting the NFT "art" market.

In the art world it's a pretty straightforward formula: -Buy out the estate of a 3rd tier artist who once drank a beer with a famous artist -Created slick marketing materials written by an art critic who was paid a lot of money to hold their nose -Place several key pieces up for auction and an accomplice buys them at inflated prices -Market is cornered, established prices are high, nothing left to do but sell to buye…

Post by spoonjim » Thu, Mar 18, 2021, 6:51 PM UTC

throwanem wrote: post #154

TeMPOraL wrote: post #72

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> Quantity over quality? Isn't focusing on quantity the only reliable way to improve quality? See also, the usual Ira Glass quote: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/309485-nobody-tells-this-to... .

Focusing on quality is the only reliable way to improve quality. The use of quantity, in the "10,000 hours" or "2000 words a day, every day" style of formulation, is to provide ample opportunity for practice and improvement, but quantity alone never can suffice. With no focus on quality, all it gets you is the same work over and over.

Post by posterboy » Thu, Mar 18, 2021, 7:24 PM UTC

incrudible wrote: post #202

Lazare wrote: post #175

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> Beeple isn't a "complete unknown", pretty much every 3D artist knows him, he's produced and published more digital art than anyone else. He's arguably the Andy Warhol of 3D rendering. I cannot stress enough how much of an overstatement that is. He's not the first, the biggest, the best, the most popular, or most prolific artist, he's not very well known in the space, and I think few, if any, professional 3D artists…

He's definitely the most prolific 3D artist, ever. Nobody else even comes close. As for being "the best" or "the biggest" or "the most popular", these terms don't make sense even in non-digital art. Indeed, he is not any of these things, but neither was Andy Warhol. It's not a coincidence that he, of all people, managed to sell 69 million dollars worth of cookie-cutter crap. That's what makes him the Andy Warhol of d…

Post by cwkoss » Thu, Mar 18, 2021, 7:40 PM UTC

the_other wrote: post #219

cwkoss wrote: post #216

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Yeah, I think 90% of museum art was made for old dead barons and aristocrats to whom I share little similarity.

And 100% of that stuff takes the piss out of the people it was made for in subtle and clever ways. It's deeper than you think, but you have to read around rather than look at the art to get it.

Post by throwanem » Thu, Mar 18, 2021, 8:06 PM UTC

spoonjim wrote: post #223

throwanem wrote: post #154

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Focusing on quality is the only reliable way to improve quality. The use of quantity, in the "10,000 hours" or "2000 words a day, every day" style of formulation, is to provide ample opportunity for practice and improvement, but quantity alone never can suffice. With no focus on quality, all it gets you is the same work over and over.

If you throw a ball at a target 10,000 times you will get more accurate even if you don’t do any deliberate thinking about your mechanics.