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Plotter Drawings: Five seconds of Donkey Kong

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Re: Plotter Drawings: Five seconds of Donkey Kong

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$200 per print from a pen plotter? I'm sorry but unless each print is hand-drawn or something, then $200 is a bit much. Especially if there's masters sitting on a hard drive somewhere.

It's art. The marginal cost of producing each print includes the price of keeping the artist alive and inspired.

Also, you should probably expect to pay more for the five seconds where Jumpman actually rescues Pauline.

Re: Plotter Drawings: Five seconds of Donkey Kong

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$200 per print from a pen plotter? I'm sorry but unless each print is hand-drawn or something, then $200 is a bit much. Especially if there's masters sitting on a hard drive somewhere.

For this to be special to someone they have to 1) Understand what it is showing, 2) have nostalgia for these video games, and 3) Want art of these things to display for people who will probably not be in groups 1 & 2. So there is a very small market for these prints, and the artist can charge what they want because they won't really be making this a business anyway.

it's a great conversation starter

Re: Plotter Drawings: Five seconds of Donkey Kong

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Woah, hey, it's me! I wanted to share this on HN but wasn't sure if it was kosher. I guess someone else did it for me! I just started working on these last week and they were very well received on Twitter. Then, to my astonishment, Edward Tufte retweeted it! https://twitter.com/EdwardTufte/status/954537749234765825 I have one of his books but didn't realize he was on Twitter until that moment. I was blown away. A lot…

> Interestingly, about half of the buyers so far are in neuroscience.

They reminded me immediately of electroencephalography (EEG) recordings of brain activity.

https://www.cs.colostate.edu/eeg/data/json/doc/tutorial/_bui...

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Johannes_Knaus/publicat...

Re: Plotter Drawings: Five seconds of Donkey Kong

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$200 per print from a pen plotter? I'm sorry but unless each print is hand-drawn or something, then $200 is a bit much. Especially if there's masters sitting on a hard drive somewhere.

Odd comment considering the regular HN posts urging people not to undervalue their work.

The recurring exception to this HN maxim is when the work is artistic. Then it's not possible to price it low enough to avoid the scorned cries of, "overpriced. my kid could do this."

Re: Plotter Drawings: Five seconds of Donkey Kong

#36
post #2

$200 per print from a pen plotter? I'm sorry but unless each print is hand-drawn or something, then $200 is a bit much. Especially if there's masters sitting on a hard drive somewhere.

So don't buy one.

If you are really buggered, compete.

Re: Plotter Drawings: Five seconds of Donkey Kong

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post #29

In reading these comments, I'm surprised about the naivety of typical HN reader with their relationship with the price of art. I mean, a photo only costs like $10 to print an 8x10, why would the artist dare charge $200 or more?

So which one is the typical reader, the one wondering about the price or the one explaining to the first one why it shouldn't be surprising? (Or the ones discussing what typical readers say or do?)

Re: Plotter Drawings: Five seconds of Donkey Kong

#38
post #2

$200 per print from a pen plotter? I'm sorry but unless each print is hand-drawn or something, then $200 is a bit much. Especially if there's masters sitting on a hard drive somewhere.

Odd comment considering the regular HN posts urging people not to undervalue their work.

People here seriously overvalue their work. How much effort put towards peoples' countless "Show HN" projects would have been better spent contributing to similar, more-developed open-source projects?

If this is the bazaar, maybe cathedrals ain't so bad...

Art is subjective, of course, and an artist is free to ask whatever they want for their work. I am unimpressed and probably not the target audience (as other comments allude).

Re: Plotter Drawings: Five seconds of Donkey Kong

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post #2

$200 per print from a pen plotter? I'm sorry but unless each print is hand-drawn or something, then $200 is a bit much. Especially if there's masters sitting on a hard drive somewhere.

No masters, each one sold is unique! If you buy one, I'll play another round of Donkey Kong. haha

It's totally worth $200. Same person has probably splurged on something they deem is worth $200.

Re: Plotter Drawings: Five seconds of Donkey Kong

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post #2

$200 per print from a pen plotter? I'm sorry but unless each print is hand-drawn or something, then $200 is a bit much. Especially if there's masters sitting on a hard drive somewhere.

Yeh, it's only like probably 5 cents for the paper and maybe what, 10 cents for ink. This guy shouldn't charge more than a quarter for this!

HN never fails to disappoint on the "let's read his comment as the most extreme possible version it could be, nevermind subtlety, nuance, or reading!" front
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