[antirez]

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[cs702]

Hi, I submitted the OP because I found it cool and interesting, esp after seeing the clip of the artist creating a piece using only a hammer.

My only motivation for submitting the OP was thinking that others here would find it cool and interesting too.

That falls within the HN guidelines, don't you think?

[AStrangeMorrow]

I disagree quite a bit. For me the medium, the technique, the process is all part of the art. Yet I still think the end result is also critical. But coming up with create ways to produce art matters.

And I am confused about the “doing it any other way”? I don’t really see other ways to achieve the same result. Say painting and photography will both produce end results that are quite different. The skills are very different. The end material is also quite different. The same way stained glass is quite different from painting

[hresvelgr]

I might agree with you as a knee jerk, but I believe "the medium is the message"[1] and I don't think there's anything particularly meaningful or evocative about shattered glass as opposed to any other planar medium.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message

[bstsb]

while i’m definitely a newcomer in HN terms, i love seeing things like this on the front page. it’s certainly interesting

[antirez]

I love that HN has a diverse set of topics, I didn't mean that. I mean: here usually the artistic and literature stuff appearing are more interesting. This looks like the average Facebook art content with many upvotes.

[AStrangeMorrow]

Same here. As much as I enjoy a lot of the technical stuff, I never click on 80% if it because it is often “thing that already exist but in lisp/rust/etc, new tool similar to X to free/one extra feature/lightweight”. So unless it is a strong interest of mine, my area of expertise, or something that makes me curious it is a skip.

Stuff like that though always makes me curious

[amarant]

If you can't tell the difference between oil on canvas and artistically shattered glass at a glance you might need... New glasses!

[testaccount28]

Ok, today YOU officially Win the Internet!