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I am trying to imagine the reaction an artist or musician would get to "Show HN: here is some art I do" and it is at least 50% "what is this doing here, HN is f

I am trying to imagine the reaction an artist or musician would get to "Show HN: here is some art I do" and it is at least 50% "what is this doing here, HN is for programmer/startup stuff". I am pretty sure the HN for X, where X is "art" or "music", is not HN. I am also finding myself tempted to do exactly this with regards to the graphic novel I drew a few years back, just to see how badly it performs.

cheschire 5y ago
Art and music topics do appear on HN front page, but only when they satisfy intellectual curiosity. Sharing art or music itself rarely does this, but I remember recently seeing an acid house generator, and another had a constellation of electronic music samples along a long page.
- dioltas 5y ago
  I remember the acid house generator, but I missed that constellation of samples sounds really interesting. Would love to see it if you had a link.
  - tomduncalf 5y ago
    Might be referring to Ishkur’s Guide To Electronic Music? https://music.ishkur.com/ https://music.ishkur.com/
  - cheschire 5y ago
    Found it, and after a few months since it was posted, I was misremembering the scope of the list; it’s significantly more than just electronic music. https://everynoise.com/ https://everynoise.com/
- thx 5y ago
  really wish there was a “Literature Extension,” actually specifically for HN love this website & audience but am doing work in the “building copyleft storytelling” space - a community of which does not yet seem to exist but wait a sec - what “building copyleft storytelling” even mean except for sounding like some make believe fantasy thing? by vision rn it’s something like coding but with respect to allowing a new community of creators to grow / develop via effectively “using” (fan-fiction-ing”) a copyleft creators work for new & original creation of - story - character - plot available for anyone to create w & sell commercial on the basis that they likewise license their work as copyleft Creative Commons CC BY-SA & link-to/credit original source work https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ i.e this week am actually releasing signature characters from 3 vol of my free 2 read copyright short story series as copyleft / Creative Commons (CCBYSA) “copyleft character personas” anyone can create w/ (w license & link to credit source) - NFT art (imagine a cryptopunk with a backstory) - new orginal story ft copyleft character - develop copyleft world build will this be a use-case for crypto ecosystem? i.e ETH for Art/Character/Copyleft world-building? if no, then what about when considering the “attention-economy”? if curious about, short story series can be found here - https://blondyn.com https://blondyn.com & almost daily superstrings here: http://superstrings.substack.com http://superstrings.substack.com for the record, if one vote can count, i do not mean this reply to come off as a shameless “post-selfie” but a legitimate “idea-pitch” from a HN regular of about 5 yrs who is “a writer” that is having difficulty finding an audience which == real bad kinda (sweat-drop + smile emoji goes here;) also real bad is having zero folk / friends to talk about such an idea with if this post still makes peeps mad just know just saw this link & the Cheshire post reply on “Art & Music” & imagined “Storytelling” could maybe fit in there as a neat 3rd thus thought to make like Wonderland /share something that ought at a minimum count as curious while simultaneously in quest to be mindful also if such a copyleft storytelling community does exist pls share thx
  - sdwr 5y ago
    Hey, I empathize with your desire to create and put yourself out there, but your stuff sucks. Don't want to come across as too mean, but it's not even half-baked, feels like you put 0 effort in. Those stream-of-consciousness notes are way more interesting to write than to read, and are also the laziest possible form of writing - the time between mental impulse (excitement!) and resolving the thought on paper can't be more than 5 seconds. Having written my own fair share of masturbatory to-do lists, I hope you learn to channel your enthusiasm in more practical, less fantastic/grandiose ways.
  - avaer 5y ago
    What's the best way to contact you? We could have an interesting conversation since we've been working on very similar things. edit: email and socials are in my profile
    - thx 5y ago
      Updated profile also / look forward to connecting
- acheron 5y ago
  My highest voted story submission by far was when the Netherlands Bach Society started the All of Bach project many years back. It's somewhat random what will catch HN's attention.
brudgers 5y ago
It is somewhat more better than internet points when one of my posts gets a “why is this on HN?” I don’t think HN will ever be overrun by original artworks. Partly because like most things on the internet most original artwork trends a bit forced. Mainly because nothing dominates HN. Not even Lisp.
dang 5y ago
We just got an email from a painter the other day and I encouraged him to post his stuff here. We'll see if he does. Admittedly he only knows about HN because he's also a programmer.
- egypturnash 5y ago
  huh, maybe I should post my GN here sometime then. Probably on a weekend, I feel like non-programming stuff generally gets more traction here on the weekends.

cheschire 5y ago

Art and music topics do appear on HN front page, but only when they satisfy intellectual curiosity. Sharing art or music itself rarely does this, but I remember recently seeing an acid house generator, and another had a constellation of electronic music samples along a long page.

dioltas 5y ago
I remember the acid house generator, but I missed that constellation of samples sounds really interesting. Would love to see it if you had a link.
- tomduncalf 5y ago
  Might be referring to Ishkur’s Guide To Electronic Music? https://music.ishkur.com/ https://music.ishkur.com/
- cheschire 5y ago
  Found it, and after a few months since it was posted, I was misremembering the scope of the list; it’s significantly more than just electronic music. https://everynoise.com/ https://everynoise.com/
thx 5y ago
really wish there was a “Literature Extension,” actually specifically for HN love this website & audience but am doing work in the “building copyleft storytelling” space - a community of which does not yet seem to exist but wait a sec - what “building copyleft storytelling” even mean except for sounding like some make believe fantasy thing? by vision rn it’s something like coding but with respect to allowing a new community of creators to grow / develop via effectively “using” (fan-fiction-ing”) a copyleft creators work for new & original creation of - story - character - plot available for anyone to create w & sell commercial on the basis that they likewise license their work as copyleft Creative Commons CC BY-SA & link-to/credit original source work https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ i.e this week am actually releasing signature characters from 3 vol of my free 2 read copyright short story series as copyleft / Creative Commons (CCBYSA) “copyleft character personas” anyone can create w/ (w license & link to credit source) - NFT art (imagine a cryptopunk with a backstory) - new orginal story ft copyleft character - develop copyleft world build will this be a use-case for crypto ecosystem? i.e ETH for Art/Character/Copyleft world-building? if no, then what about when considering the “attention-economy”? if curious about, short story series can be found here - https://blondyn.com https://blondyn.com & almost daily superstrings here: http://superstrings.substack.com http://superstrings.substack.com for the record, if one vote can count, i do not mean this reply to come off as a shameless “post-selfie” but a legitimate “idea-pitch” from a HN regular of about 5 yrs who is “a writer” that is having difficulty finding an audience which == real bad kinda (sweat-drop + smile emoji goes here;) also real bad is having zero folk / friends to talk about such an idea with if this post still makes peeps mad just know just saw this link & the Cheshire post reply on “Art & Music” & imagined “Storytelling” could maybe fit in there as a neat 3rd thus thought to make like Wonderland /share something that ought at a minimum count as curious while simultaneously in quest to be mindful also if such a copyleft storytelling community does exist pls share thx
- sdwr 5y ago
  Hey, I empathize with your desire to create and put yourself out there, but your stuff sucks. Don't want to come across as too mean, but it's not even half-baked, feels like you put 0 effort in. Those stream-of-consciousness notes are way more interesting to write than to read, and are also the laziest possible form of writing - the time between mental impulse (excitement!) and resolving the thought on paper can't be more than 5 seconds. Having written my own fair share of masturbatory to-do lists, I hope you learn to channel your enthusiasm in more practical, less fantastic/grandiose ways.
- avaer 5y ago
  What's the best way to contact you? We could have an interesting conversation since we've been working on very similar things. edit: email and socials are in my profile
  - thx 5y ago
    Updated profile also / look forward to connecting
acheron 5y ago
My highest voted story submission by far was when the Netherlands Bach Society started the All of Bach project many years back. It's somewhat random what will catch HN's attention.

brudgers 5y ago

It is somewhat more better than internet points when one of my posts gets a “why is this on HN?” I don’t think HN will ever be overrun by original artworks. Partly because like most things on the internet most original artwork trends a bit forced. Mainly because nothing dominates HN. Not even Lisp.

dang 5y ago

We just got an email from a painter the other day and I encouraged him to post his stuff here. We'll see if he does. Admittedly he only knows about HN because he's also a programmer.

egypturnash 5y ago
huh, maybe I should post my GN here sometime then. Probably on a weekend, I feel like non-programming stuff generally gets more traction here on the weekends.