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How Art Can Be Good
2 months ago
- The author argues that there is such a thing as good taste and good art, contrary to the relativistic belief that taste is merely personal preference.
- Good art is defined as art that effectively interests its human audience, and humans share many commonalities (e.g., attraction to faces, primary colors) that make such judgments objective.
- Measuring taste is complicated by biases like brand recognition and artistic tricks, but individuals can approach objective judgment by eliminating these errors through awareness and broad exposure.
- The ability to recognize good art constitutes good taste, and this concept is crucial for artists who aspire to create great works rather than being discouraged by relativism.
Is There Such a Thing as Good Taste?
2 months ago
- The author refutes the idea that there is no such thing as good taste, using a reductio ad absurdum argument.
- Denying good taste leads to denying good art, which implies no artist can be skilled, even comparing masters to children.
- The author's personal experience studying painting showed that skill differences, like between himself and Leonardo, are real, proving good taste exists.
- Two reasons for doubting good taste: widespread disagreement (often due to extraneous factors) and the subjective nature of art's goodness.
- Art's goodness is an objective property relative to human commonalities, analogous to vaccine effectiveness, despite variability in responses.
- Good taste is possible through deep knowledge and clarity, though imperfect; a partial order exists for both works and judgment ability.
"Sixteenth of a year", a 1.8 KiB art piece
2 months ago
- The author reflects on time by splitting it into sixteenths of a year and day, written for the 16th issue of Taper magazine.
- The art piece is a 1.8 KiB code project under 2048 bytes, using date math and a Go server for minification.
- The author recommends other entries from the same issue, including '[SIC]', 'Desperate Measures from a Dying Regime', and '(un)done'.
Book Review: Fake Creativity by Blake Loch
2 months ago
- The reviewer received a free copy from BookSirens and found the self-published novel intriguing with a backstory as interesting as the plot.
- The story follows an author descending into paranoia, convinced an AI is plagiarizing his work, forcing him to question the genuineness of his creative processes.
- The novel raises excellent questions about AI's ability to replicate art and proposes methods to ensure genuine human content, possibly the only way to prove human creation.
- The pacing is excellent with well-placed plot twists, but as a self-published work, it could use tighter editing and more exposition for some characters' motivations.
- A novel-within-a-novel is genuinely AI-generated, producing risible, cliché-ridden prose that contrasts effectively with human-written text, and the author's use of AI is deemed acceptable.
- The reviewer predicts more authors will use AI fears as a theme, similar to pandemic allegories, and this novel is a decent attempt to capture that moment.
The Word for Art Is Human
2 months ago
- The author wanted to create a personal game (KATAVATIS) as an escape from corporate work, pursuing full creative control.
- Reflecting on childhood, the author describes how learning to program was essential to make games, unlike today's generative AI.
- Art is defined as human expression and creation, which cannot be replicated by AI algorithms that merely imitate patterns.
- The rise of generative AI threatens to replace authentic human art and expression, akin to a zombie apocalypse of creativity.
Bayeux Tapestry delivered to British Museum in dead of night
3 months ago
- Bayeux Tapestry delivered to British Museum at 02:50 from secret location in France.
- 70-meter 11th-century embroidery depicts events leading to 1066 Battle of Hastings.
- Loaned for nine months by French government, part of agreement with UK Prime Minister.
- Tapestry transported in climate-controlled crate with shock absorbers to prevent damage.
- British Museum sold record 100,000 tickets on first day of sales for exhibition.
- Tapestry survived nearly 1,000 years despite risks like moths, damp, and fire.
- Norman Conquest reshaped England, introducing French words and Norman nobles.
- Some in France opposed loan, calling it a "heritage crime" due to fragility.
- Tapestry will be displayed flat, allowing full view for first time in history.
The Feeling of Recursion
3 months ago
- Recursive art is visually appealing and captures feelings of infinite detail and depth.
- Patrick's Parabox and Print Gallery of an Artist provide unique experiences of recursive puzzle gameplay.
- Recursive games can cause disorientation, difficulty in tracking characters, and motion sickness.
- Some games use ASCII levels or disable recursion visuals to change gameplay feel.
- Recursion in games and art often relates to paradoxes and mathematical concepts like induction.
- Games like Manifold Garden show potential but may lack the sense of vastness in recursion.
- Various examples exist across media, including films, custom maps, and other games exploring recursion.
- The article suggests future possibilities for recursion in games, such as warped 3D space.
Plein Air
3 months ago
- Plein air is the practice of painting outdoors to capture light and weather conditions directly, as seen in artists like Constable and Monet.
- The Plein Air app connects the current sky with a painting from the public domain that matches the same time or weather, allowing users to explore the selection.
- Users can interact with paintings in a gallery by tapping to open, rate, hide, or discard them, and access details about why each painting was chosen and its source museum.
The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams
3 months ago
- The scene from 'Good Will Hunting' illustrates the difference between knowledge and lived experience.
- AI can accumulate information but lacks personal experience, emotions, and the ability to 'read the room'.
- Art and meaningful work stem from internal synthesis of personal experiences, not just external knowledge.
- Individuals should draw on their unique life moments to create authentic and impactful work in an age of AI-generated content.
- The performance of Robin Williams exemplifies how personal experiences bring depth and life to a script.

How Art Can Be Good

Is There Such a Thing as Good Taste?

"Sixteenth of a year", a 1.8 KiB art piece

Book Review: Fake Creativity by Blake Loch

The Word for Art Is Human

Bayeux Tapestry delivered to British Museum in dead of night

The Feeling of Recursion

Plein Air

The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams