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PG: ”Hacking is getting a lot cooler now. But I think it is probably better for picking people up at parties if you can say you’re a painter.” At a party, I sa
by NAFV_P 13y ago
PG: ”Hacking is getting a lot cooler now. But I think it is probably better for picking people up at parties if you can say you’re a painter.”
At a party, I say I used to be a painter, but gave it up because I can paint utter shit and still get recognition for it. When you code utter shit, nothing matters unless that shit works.
Most people don't understand either profession. Nowadays I just say - "I'm still a practising artist, but I only practise the black arts." Then I try and explain recursion to them.
- jarpineh 13y agoI just say what the dictionary entry is for recursion: see recursion. No, that has not made me cooler.
- NAFV_P 13y ago> I just say what the dictionary entry is for recursion: see recursion. Paraphrasing Simon Cozens, that joke is so old it is growing hairs. Explaining recursion will not make you cooler, unless you say beforehand that you used to be a painter but gave it up because you can paint vile shit and still get a load of recognition for it. That will make you seem much edgier and anti-establishment or whatever than the conceptual-artist/trendy-douchebag on the other side of the room.
- mindslight 13y ago"Nothing matters unless that shit works" applies to painting as well - the paint still has to stick to the canvas. And plenty of coded "utter shit" gets heaps of recognition - like every middleman-creating user-disempowering "web 2.0" data silo.
- NAFV_P 13y ago> "Nothing matters unless that shit works" applies to painting as well - the paint still has to stick to the canvas. Any artist with half a brain cell can get round that conundrum, just sell the collector an empty canvas and then sell them a bullshit story that it is art. > And plenty of coded "utter shit" gets heaps of recognition - like every middleman-creating user-disempowering "web 2.0" data silo. Wait up, are you suggesting that every middleman-creating user-disempowering "web 2.0" data silo works well and has few known bugs?
- msutherl 13y ago> Any artist with half a brain cell can get round that conundrum, just sell the collector an empty canvas and then sell them a bullshit story that it is art. Evidently you have never tried to do this before.
- NAFV_P 13y ago> Evidently you have never tried to do this before. No I haven't tried this, I have better things to do, like working out how to use the POSIX library. But Lucio Fontano did something very similar, and it worked.
- smonff 13y agoLucio Fontana is nothing comparing to Piero Manzoni. He get through making an artwork featuring 90 tin can filled with 30g of his own shit. Please read the label that said Merda d'artista (artist shit) : Artist's Shit Contents 30 gr net Freshly preserved Produced and tinned in May 1961 Quoting Wikipedia : The cans were originally to be valued according to their equivalent weight in gold — $37 each in 1961 — with the price fluctuating according to the market. But the stuff is today shown in biggest museum, and one can has been sold $160300 in 2008.