それが日本語じゃないですよ。
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There's about one alt-right a week who commits a screeching katana attack against whites. Why don't you guys quit slaughtering whites?
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a while ago I learned that Japanese for “Chinese” is something like “Chingoku”. Chinese for “Japanese” is “日本（人）”.
Wasn’t it Chuugoku (中国)? (Something like “middle country” - I think the meaning reading is the same in Mandarin Chinese?)
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This is what the future aesthetic looks like in 2017.
yes, it’s for you
Anonymous asked:
I think abstract art suffers from getting associated with postmodernist putting-a-toilet-in-an-art-gallery type stuff, as a class marker of insufferable douchebags.
Yes.
What is visual art about? At its barest - color, shape/form, composition…
Abstract art, when it is good, is about these things, the far end of a continuum of realism vs abstraction.
And I think a lot of the pushback really is about seeing some kinds of art as a scam, defined totally by the artist’s popularity.
Anonymous asked:
Sonic-the-hedgehog or Robin-hood era childhood-influence-furries had to go through the hassle of learning art skills to get good pictures of their OC's, and had to deal with the early internet. Zootopia-childhood-influence furries will just be able to have a neural net generate their own hi-res 3d models for virtual reality chat. Cubs these days, I tell ya.
argumate answered:
Wearing augmented reality goggles so that everyone you interact with is furry
But how does the algorithm decide which animals to furry-fy the non-furries with? Sounds discriminatory already.
Truly lovely. Sometimes it’s a drag, but I’m glad I live at the end of the great era of popular art.
Why do you think this is the end of the great era of popular art?
I’m too tired to fully explicate this, but the idea in my head is something like this. The great era of popular art (movies and pop music [that is, anything from jazz to rock to rap – anything with a backbeat], mainly) that’s lasted for a century or so was the product of a few one-time technological innovations – the reliable recording of audio and images plus the ability to distribute those recordings en masse. Mechanically reproduced art, basically. As soon as these technologies became viable there was a great wave of cultural innovation. Genre after genre was created and explored by artist after artist.
Think of the way that rock music developed from a primitive (not in a bad sense) model in the 50′s, to something more fully fleshed out in the 60′s as artists figured out what rock was, to all sorts of weird and baroque experimentation in the 70′s. That’s crude, but you get the basic idea. In an incredibly short span of time artists were figuring out what rock music could be, what its limitations were. There have been spasms of creativity in rock music since, but it’s fair to say that rock has slowly been drying up as a source of innovation since the 70′s. Why? Well, like I said, artists figured out what rock music was. There was less scope for things that were both novel and good. It’s still possible to make great rock music, even albums that stand up with the original greats, but it’s harder to surprise. Not impossible, but harder and harder. And so the culture moves on. Just as importantly, Real Artists move on. The productive subcultures go away, one by one. Hence why people say that rock music is dead. It isn’t dead, but it is eternally senescent in much the same way that classical is. All rock is now made in reference to the past.
However, at some point it’s not just that individual genres are losing their potency, it’s that the whole grouping of genres enabled by this new mode of artistic production are losing their potency. Punk was an interesting challenge to an overblown status quo. Grunge was a less interesting challenge to an overblown status quo. The third time will be utterly predictable and boring. Rock and rap and electronica are all different, but the parallels are obvious and at some high level things start to blend together. It’s predictable. You can still make good movies, but it’s hard to make one that’s unpredictable. What was the last new movie that surprised you in that way? Even the languages of shock and irony become played out. You can’t get heavier than doom metal without going below the range of human hearing. You can’t get noisier than noise music, or more ambient than ambient. Both popular music and its more experimental derivatives have been explored at this point. Not totally, but to an ever-increasing degree.
It’s taken a century, but this is the end of the line for innovation in popular art, the end of the golden age.
Or so the theory in my head goes. The other option is that the rate of cultural innovation has genuinely permanently increased and that we’ll see new and interesting popular genres get churned out indefinitely. It’s possible – it’s hard to distinguish between an S-curve and an exponential one when you’re on it – but I’m doubtful. It would hardly be the first time a whole style of art similarly lost momentum. I already mentioned classical music. Think too of the deconstructive impulse of Modernism. Exhibiting a urinal in a gallery is a genuinely interesting gimmick, but only for the first time.
In the end, there’s only so much you can do with a backbeat. Or with the shot reverse shot.
Which isn’t to say that art is dead forever, mind. (Or that pop art is going away. It’s popular for a reason!) That sort of mindless declinism is just tedious. I have no doubt that there will be equally interesting artistic innovations sooner or later. Though it is hard to see from where. So far video games have fallen woefully short of being Art Art (even the best written games are terribly mediocre compared to anything else), and the internet has been useful for distribution but not really for artistic innovation, with minor exceptions. So I dunno, we’ll see. But I don’t think there will be another rock music.
(Thanks to @argumate for some of the ideas here. I don’t think I’ve written this post before, but who can be sure of that kind of thing anymore.)
The future is more art and more customization.
The use of algorithmic tools and other software allows for more creators to use less effort to create more art. That leads to a greater volume of art and a potentially faster exploration of micro-genres. These micro-genres will more closely suit the preferences of individual readers.
However, it is impossible for one individual to view all of this art. There simply isn’t enough time, even for a NEET.
This will allow shocks to occur when viewers leave their micro-genres in order to explore new ones.
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So, this artist Penelope Umbrico made a collage of the incredibly large number of portraits people had posted to flickr of themselves standing in front of the sunset, and put it up as an exhibit for an art gallery. Unsurprisingly, this apparent tendency for people to take pictures of themselves standing in front of sunsets and posting them to flickr has inspired others to take pictures of themselves in front of the collage, and posting it to flickr.
argumate answered:
It’s like the tension in MMORPG design: if everyone does the same quest it destroys the logic of the game world to some degree (the bad guy is beaten millions of times!) but if quests have to be unique for each player you can’t share the experience.
* twitches *
Time. The answer is Time.
Set the MMORPG in a world where the timelines are divergent and there are thousands or millions of them, and the world itself is broken into thousands of planes/zones/worlds spread across a vast and diverse cosmos in a state of multiversal war.
The players are warrior-chrononauts, members of various factions in this cosmic war across universes and timelines. Many of the same worlds, however, occur again and again, and thus they have a shared experience of intervening in them. There isn’t just one Space Hitler, there are thousands or millions echoing out into the cosmic void.
Video games are almost perfect for this, since single-player games do the multiple timelines branching thing intuitively just by their structure, with saves and replays!
oh sure you can do that for one game, just gets a bit painful when you have to resort to it for all games.
Ah, but thanks to Death of the Author, I already did.
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