“We literally live in a world where our own blood and excrement can belong in a museum if it’s wrapped in a sound bite explaining its purported depth and profundity.”

Agreed.

samspratt:

I was beyond flattered when one of the biggest names in photography and Photoshop, Scott Kelby, invited me to do a guest post. Read on for my thoughts on the convergence of art and technology and a breakdown of why people hire painters instead of photographers. Here’s an excerpt:

“I am a knowing hypocrite. I roll my eyes at the Instagram-ification of photography – slapping vintage filters on digital photographs to make them appear old and organic. I loathe the skeuomorphic interfaces in Apple’s user-experience design – digital leather-trimmed calendar apps, paper textured digital notepads, and synthetic camera click sounds trying to make something “classical” which should be as clean and minimal as the aluminum hardware it rests in. Yet… I’m a painter of the digital variety, who has built a career off of translating techniques and concepts learned through Baroque-era oil painting courses into a modern medium. Pixels have replaced pigment for me, but they’re pushed around just the same. Maybe it’s not as simple as swiping through some preset effects and slapping filters on filters over my every meal with a button press, but the core idea is the same: art and technology are converging into a Kurzweil-esque singularity and we look over our shoulders to build something on top of what came before it.”

(Click the image or this link for the full post)