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On a tangent, the floor of Pollock's studio is an artwork in its own right: https://aaqeastend.com/contents/aaq-portfolio-jackson-pollocks-studio-floor-1947-19
by femto 2y ago
On a tangent, the floor of Pollock's studio is an artwork in its own right:
https://aaqeastend.com/contents/aaq-portfolio-jackson-pollocks-studio-floor-1947-1952-uncovered-1987-photo-for-moma-1998/ https://aaqeastend.com/contents/aaq-portfolio-jackson-polloc...
- dang 2y agoWow, that would make a great HN submission in its own right—though not anytime soon! one has to let the hivemind caches clear first.
- TheSpiceIsLife 2y agoOn the other hand, when brick and mortar stores of the same kind are located near each other they all sell more. And we often see two of the same topics thriving on the HN front page.
- DyslexicAtheist 2y agosay no more.
- dang 2y ago> we often see two of the same topics thriving on the HN front page Most often that would be a failure on our part. But it's good for the mods to fail sometimes.
- TheSpiceIsLife 2y agoI meant more: two of the same category of thing, where a submission will spur interest in closely related submissions, or something tangential related. Like, say, a submission on Jean-Michel Basquiat‘s art follow by a submission on the 27 Club.
- dang 2y agoOh yes—we call those follow-ups and tend to downweight them for reasons explained in various posts: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=follow-up%20downweight&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que.... Usually the best place for such links is in the comments of the existing thread. Of course, once enough time has gone by, such links can become first-rate submissions in their own right!