https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBwNrMFyZV8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSBxrs2nqck

For two millennia, great artists set the standard for beauty. Now those standards are gone. Modern art is a competition between the ugly and the twisted; the most shocking wins. What happened? How did the beautiful come to be reviled and bad taste come to be celebrated? Renowned artist Robert Florczak explains the history and the mystery behind this change and how it can be stopped and even reversed.  🚨  PragerU is experiencing severe censorship on Big Tech platforms. Go to https://www.prageru.com/ to watch our videos free from censorship!  SUBSCRIBE 👉 https://www.prageru.com/join/  📲 Take PragerU videos with you everywhere you go. Download our free mobile app!  Download for Apple iOS ➡ https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/prage... Download for Android ➡ https://play.google.com/store/apps/de...  📳 Join PragerU's text list! https://optin.mobiniti.com/prageru  SHOP! 🛒 Love PragerU? Visit our store today! https://shop.prageru.com/  Script:  "The Mona Lisa"...  "The Pieta"...  "The Girl with a Pearl Earring."  For a score of centuries, artists enriched Western society with their works of  astonishing beauty.  "The Night Watch"...  "The Thinker"...  "The Rocky Mountains." Master after master, from Leonardo, to Rembrandt, to Bierstadt, produced works that inspired, uplifted, and deepened us. And they did this by demanding of themselves the highest standards of excellence, improving upon the work of each previous generation of masters, and continuing to aspire to the highest quality attainable.  But something happened on the way to the 20th Century. The profound, the inspiring and the beautiful were replaced by the new, the different, and the ugly.  Today the silly, the pointless, and the purely offensive are held up as the best of modern art.   Michelangelo carved his "David" out of a rock.  The Los Angeles County Museum of Art just offers us a rock, -- a rock -- all 340 tons of it.  That's how far standards have fallen.  How did this happen?  How did the thousand-year ascent towards artistic perfection and excellence die out?  It didn't.  It was pushed out.  Beginning in the late 19th century, a group dubbed The Impressionists rebelled against the French Academie des Beaux Arts and its demand for classical standards.  Whatever their intentions, the new modernists sowed the seeds of aesthetic relativism -- the "beauty is in the eye of the beholder" mentality.  Today everybody loves the Impressionists.  And, as with most revolutions, the first generation or so produced work of genuine merit.  Monet, Renoir, and Degas still maintained elements of disciplined design and execution, but with each new generation standards declined until there were no standards.  All that was left was personal expression.    The great art historian Jacob Rosenberg wrote that quality in art "is not merely a matter of personal opinion but to a high degree . . . objectively traceable." But the idea of a universal standard of quality in art is now usually met with strong resistance if not open ridicule.  "How can art be objectively measured?" I'm challenged.  In responding, I simply point to the artistic results produced by universal standards compared to what is produced by relativism.  The former gave the world "The Birth of Venus" and "The Dying Gaul," while the latter has given us "The Holy Virgin Mary," fashioned with cow dung and pornographic images, and "Petra," the prize-winning sculpture of a policewoman squatting and urinating -- complete with a puddle of synthetic urine.  Without aesthetic standards we have no way to determine quality or inferiority.  Here's a test I give my graduate students, all talented and well educated.  Please analyze this Jackson Pollock painting and explain why it is good.  It is only after they give very eloquent answers that I inform them that the painting is actually a close up of my studio apron.  I don't blame them; I would probably have done the same since it's nearly impossible to differentiate between the two.   For the complete script, visit https://www.prageru.com/videos/why-modern-art-so-bad

Why is Modern Art so Bad? | 5 Minute Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNI07egoefc

tci.metalabel.com/on-making-a-living-digital

https://blog.boraoztunc.net/post/148567838154/turkey-cinemascope-nuri-bilge-ceylan

The proliferation of AI means we need a new word.

It’s time to retire the term “user”

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/19/1090872/ai-users-people-terms/

There’s lots of debate around the best way to do stuff—what’s most efficient, scalable, and sustainable. But what about when you don’t feel like doing anything… When you’re in Slump Mode?

Designing a Protocol to Get out of Slump Mode

https://behavioralscientist.org/are-we-too-impatient-to-be-intelligent/

This series exposes the negative consequences of flawed business models and the unethical behaviors of some startup founders, shedding light on the challenges that entrepreneurs face in the startup ecosystem and highlighting the importance of ethical leadership and sustainability in business.

TV series about startup failures

https://1984.design/blog/tv-series-about-startup-failures/

https://read.cv/bora/carmys-non-negotiables

No, it’s not “nice to have”. A case study of the financial impact of smart design decisions in payment systems.

Yes, design can save you millions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDkAGkd4NLc

Corita challenged both the church and the art world with her expressive creations, stirring a remarkable disruption, and offered…

Corita Kent: teachings to free the creative spirit

https://uxdesign.cc/corita-kent-learning-by-heart-teachings-to-free-the-creative-spirit-bf6dd5bd9d73

Rolls-Royce's Phantom Scintilla Private Collection celebrates the Spirit of Ecstasy’s fleeting presence, dynamism and storied legacy 

Over 850.000 stitches create an interrupted graphic flowing through the cabin. 🤯

→ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBwNrMFyZV8

👾 🙌 

Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSBxrs2nqck

First release at Metalabel.

HAB
📽️ https://creativeminds.metalabel.com/hab

What should be the *official* icon for AI features in digital products? 

The "3 sparkly stars" icon has been widely adopted...but what do consumers think?

Back to the giants, re-watching Halt and Catch Fire. I love everything about this series, but Cameron has a special place.

The creative process ✨

Discover — Read a lot. Observe the world. Notice.
Collect — Record anything that strikes you.
Generate — Build on your notes to brainstorm ideas.
Combine — Connect previously unconnected ideas.
Refine — Edit, edit, edit. Select the best.

Recreating my balcony garden in pixels 🪴

90's Sunday.. Missing the good old days, when things were simple and the world was less in shit. Civilization and technology advanced, and societies went backward in culture and communication.

📺 Power on
90s.myretrotvs.com

On Making a Living as an Artist
The Creative Independent

→ tci.metalabel.com/on-making-a-living-digital
→ thecreativeindependent.com

Today I learned: Equanimity.

Mental calmness, especially in a difficult situation.

Lost in Netflix's endless library? 

Today I learned that their vast library would take three and a half years of nonstop viewing to see in full.

Posting is how creative people have shared work for the past decade. Releasing much more enthusiastically celebrates creative work. via Metalabel.

I never understood why WeTransfer is still forcing us to use that tiny miny modal to put important information, which is the whole purpose of the product and screen.

Never trust Adobe CC files! Those folks can't make anything right. Syncing is unreliable. I got stressed out on a critical printing deadline while uploading 50GB of data. Saved at the last minute uploading it to G Drive.

Looking in awe at a printed photograph of artist Nuri Bilge Ceylan. 

From the series "Turkey Cinemascope" 
https://blog.boraoztunc.net/post/148567838154/turkey-cinemascope-nuri-bilge-ceylan

It’s time to retire the term “user”

https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/19/1090872/ai-users-people-terms/

📕 Reading: Design for Real Life 
by Eric Meyer & Sara Wachter-Boettcher

"You can't know every user, but you can develop inclusive practices that support a wider range of people. This book will show you how."

The web version is free.
→ dfrlbook.com

"The traveler hasn't reached his final destination."

Soul Kitchen (2009)
Director: Fatih Akın

When Clubhouse was first released as invite-only, I was left out and pissed. So created Craphouse, and developed an open audio space for chatting, or any crap people wanted to talk about.

It was built on Jam, code repo is on GitHub.

https://github.com/boraoztunc/craphouse

Perfect rainy Saturday at home. Rewatching Beetlejuice (1988) before going to the cinema this week to watch the sequel. 👻

Is it good design?

→ https://isitgood.design

A photo is a single-frame story that simply relies on 3 key elements: composition, connection, and light. 📷

I've shot this short film, HAB, to create awareness for child labor in Turkey.

Year: 2017
Duration: 4 min 39 sec

→ https://vimeo.com/242599324

Changing the tech stack for 1984.design and migrating to Ghost, with a nicely developed knowledge theme that has sidebar navigations fit perfectly for the project's content structure. So far so good, love the interface, easy to execute tasks. Ghost provides staging env. is great.

"Even if you love your projects and the people you work with you’ll inevitably face one of those mornings when the couch feels more appealing than your computer.

Designing a personalized protocol to get out of slump mode is an opportunity to be the scientist of your own life."

I'm researching the right terminology for a project, which is categorization of films. But it seems we are divided using the terms "Film" and "Movie". 

Letterbox describes its platform as "Social film discovery".

Curious; where do you stand on this subject?

Sometimes I see ADHD conversations here, just stumbled on a tech company: Neurode. They are developing a headband to manage and track ADHD, drug-free.

neurodelabs.com

🚨 Notice that the platform is currently in clinical development.

Reading: Are we too impatient to be intelligent?

→ https://behavioralscientist.org/are-we-too-impatient-to-be-intelligent/

Severance, the series will premier with its second season on January 17, 2025.

I stumbled on this design online but no idea if it is official. Always liked the usage of grain/noise like this.

Looking for your next thing to watch? Here is a list of TV series about startups, founders, and failures. 📽️

https://1984.design/blog/tv-series-about-startup-failures/

The Bear became one of my fav series. Published an article about Carmy’s non-negotiables with insights for business management and product development.

→ https://read.cv/bora/carmys-non-negotiables

Designers have to defend the value of innovation, especially when that innovation involves a new system that’s dramatically different. You need to align the new approach with both:

— business goals
— user needs
— backing it up with research and data.

"I didn't say it would be easy, Neo. I just said it would be the truth." — Morpheus

The Matrix Ending Explained: A Guide to Freeing Your Mind

→ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDkAGkd4NLc

"He had his demons, but they never stopped him from searching for beauty. Because when you find beauty, you find inspiration."

Corita Kent challenged the church and the art world with her expressive creations and offered fundamental principles and techniques to encourage artistic creativity. 

https://uxdesign.cc/corita-kent-learning-by-heart-teachings-to-free-the-creative-spirit-bf6dd5bd9d73

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