Dang, this is going to crash the NFT market for digital images of Lourve paintings.
NFTs are a sign that we really need to do something about wealth inequality.
No, NFTs are a sign we really need financial literacy. They are nothing.
Louvre makes its entire collection available online
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#72Is there an API or a way to do «polite scraping»? Could be a fun AI dataset.
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#73Here's Mona Lisa:
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#74Dang, this is going to crash the NFT market for digital images of Lourve paintings.
I know you’re joking but lots of people still struggle with the reason why NFTs exist, including Apple’s unofficial PR department John Gruber. But it seems he finally understood it now thanks to this article: https://jackrusher.com/journal/what-does-it-mean-to-buy-a-gi... [0] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2021/03/26/rusher-nfts
> the reason why NFTs exist
Money laundering.
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#75Dang, this is going to crash the NFT market for digital images of Lourve paintings.
NFTs are a sign that we really need to do something about wealth inequality.
Aka "people should spend money on what I want them to instead of what they want to, because I'm morally superior to them"
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#76Here's Mona Lisa: https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010066723
The date of creation seems wrong, right? Shouldn't it be ~1500?
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#77LOL, it's finally time for Paul Graham's first startup to shine.
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#78I’m confused who this is for. It’s not the same experience seeing art online. Part of what makes the Louvre or other museums special is being in a beautiful and decorated historically important space. It puts you in a different mindset where you can wander, ponder, and appreciate. I’m no Luddite but a digital experience simply can’t recreate that, at least not today.
Its an amazing resource for people studying art or people teaching art. Its a different experience than seeing it in person. However, there are benefits to both. I've seen gigapixel scans of some of the greatest paintings in history that let you zoom in on the tiniest details and see the brush strokes, the texture of the dried paint, the cracks and aging, etc. For some of the same pictures if I saw it in person I'd b…
Exactly. Putting these collections is a boon.
My partner does fine art painting (portraits, still life), and has created many a master copy. Many times actually working in a museum every day with all the gear for weeks. (Patrons love this novelty.)
We've ordered many a high quality print selected from online collections for further study.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for the links, absolutely great channels. I wonder if there exist something like curated "awesome list" of museums online? Because I don't even think it's possible to find these gems just doing a search on Google/YouTube which returns mostly low quality to spam results.
Maybe we can start an HN or Reddit thread and then link it from AwesomeMuseamsOnline.(whatever cheap tld)
Please do this.
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#80Here's Mona Lisa: https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010066723
The date of creation seems wrong, right? Shouldn't it be ~1500?
Maybe it's one of those things where someone mixed up the centuries. The page states "XVIIe siècle" (17th century), if someone somewhere mixed up "16th century" (which is correct) with "the 1600s", that could explain the error.
Personally I'm really not a fan of using the "century" notation, and in my native language it's never used.