NFTs are now the leading cause of snowflakiness, relegating UX design to second place
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Top 10 leading causes of snowflakiness
1. NFTs
2. UX design
3. Being a Socially Conscious VC
4. Young Adult fiction
5. Not discussing politics at work
6. Discussing politics at work
7. “Patriotism”
8. Actual Socialism™
9. “Bitcoin solves this”
10. Climate change
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The Hollywood foreign press association voted on these rankings. I didn’t make them up. I’m just the messenger, don’t @ me.
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Weirdly enough all the actual artists I know are among the least snowflakey people I know.
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It’s like that line “everything is about sex except sex itself; sex is about power.”
“Everything is about art except art itself. Art is about where to find the best turpentine.”
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Snowflakiness seems to arise from compromising on artistic impulses by alloying them with commercial ones. So it is a risk that’s most associated with “applied art.” If you just cheerfully yield to totally self-indulgent narcissism and simply make art that pleases you, it works.
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It’s refreshing to negotiate with true ars gratia artis types. They are totally pragmatic about it and rarely have sentimental idealism or sensitivities about being exploited. They’re happy to just take deals or walk away from lowball offers without making a big fuss about it.
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Older thread about NFTs
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I once saw a print exhibition where one of the exhibits was a woodcut panel (the kind from from which limited edition prints are made), with a gash cut across it, to guarantee the limitedness of the edition. Is that a norm? If so, is the print or the panel more like an NFT?
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