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westondeboer commented on Show HN: I build one absurd web project every month   absurd.website... · Posted by u/absurdwebsite
westondeboer · 3 months ago
I think the Artist's Death Effect Data Base is hilarious. We talk about this in my circle about which artist isn't doing well and we all secretly buy up some work.

Sort of like a dead pool.

westondeboer commented on DEI-TY Screenprint – 2 Colorways Available Thursday, May 15th at 10am PT!   obeygiant.com/dei-ty-scre... · Posted by u/westondeboer
westondeboer · 3 months ago
Shepard Fairey just announced a new print called “DEI-TY,” which critiques recent political efforts to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives in the U.S.

Fairey is best known for his Obey Giant campaign and the Obama “Hope” poster. His work often explores the intersection of propaganda, design, and civic messaging.

This new release continues that tradition. It might spark discussion around the role of visual culture in public discourse and how artists respond to policy shifts.

Curious what others here think: Can politically charged art still move the needle, or has its impact faded?

westondeboer commented on Federal workers ordered to return to offices without desks, Wi-Fi and lights   cnn.com/2025/03/04/politi... · Posted by u/rob74
westondeboer · 6 months ago
Lights? They are scrambling right now to get monitors and keyboards
westondeboer commented on Amazon ends kindle ebooks "Download and Transfer via USB"   goodereader.com/blog/kind... · Posted by u/m463
tripplyons · 6 months ago
Why does it say "You can continue to sideload e-books on your Kindle via USB cable" at the bottom? Isn't that contradictory?
westondeboer · 6 months ago
also "Send to Kindle will continue to work" which works over wifi https://www.amazon.com/sendtokindle
westondeboer commented on Lessons I learned working at an art gallery   henrikkarlsson.xyz/p/art-... · Posted by u/bkudria
krisoft · 9 months ago
The problem here is that I don’t trust the author on being able to tell who is the “best artist”. Clearly he has opinions. But for example in point 3, he says he can predict which exhibition will be great based on how easy it is to work with the artist. He predicts that some exhibition will be crap and he is right! Which sounds impressive until you notice that he is not measuring his judgement against something objective, but just against his judgement. He decides something will be crap and then he feels crap about it once he sees it. Did others, who did not know that the artist was slow to email back also feel that those exhibitions were mediocre and the others not? Who knows? All we have is this one man’s opinion. Maybe others thought differently.

Even more so in his point 6. He writes “What you see in the biographies of great artists, great writers, great anything is that they are good at figuring out where the vectors align.” Which is just plainly and absolutely not true. There were plenty of people who we now recognise as “great artist” who absolutely could not figure out where the “incentive vectors align”. Thus they lived in abject poverty, or needed to support themselves from something other than their art. But if your definition of “great art” is that it is commercially succesfull then of course what you will find that the “great artist” are all like good businesman. But that doesn’t tell you about what it take to be an artist, just only what you value.

westondeboer · 9 months ago
I have worked for an artist for about 20 years. He releases a print every week, I could not tell you which one is going to sell well or not.
westondeboer commented on What If Ozempic Is Just a Good Thing?   nymag.com/intelligencer/a... · Posted by u/paulpauper
monkpit · a year ago
The submitted title is wild compared to the article.
westondeboer · a year ago
> The Moral Panic Over Ozempic Misses the Point The media has made the drugs about body politics and our obsession with thinness. That’s the wrong story.
westondeboer commented on How economical is your local Taco Bell?   taconomical.com... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
westondeboer · a year ago
Most expensive in North America is the Universal Studios Location.
westondeboer commented on Official Chrome extension to use iCloud Keychain Passwords   chrome.google.com/webstor... · Posted by u/aeontech
westondeboer · 2 years ago
need beta os to run this.
westondeboer commented on The Free Movie   thefreemovie.buzz/... · Posted by u/colinprince
cwkoss · 2 years ago
How long did it take for them to get all the frames?
westondeboer · 2 years ago
3-4 hours.

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