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In other words, she’d be someone who can break the rules with nonchalance because most of the time, she’s making them.
Sarah Archer • Is It Time to Do Away With “Good Taste”?
A system optimized for noise elimination is hostile to the genuinely new. It converges on what works, on what has worked. That convergence might produce excellent outputs by existing standards. But it will not produce the output that creates a new standard.
Second Voice • The $150/Hr Poet
‘What’s the point?’ syndrome, and why we all feel so disconnected right now
marie-claire chappetstylist.co.uk
- What are you being paid for?
- The confidence that I have in my taste. And my ability to express what I feel, has proven helpful for artist.
I feel the same applies to design most of the times. A so called good eye, taste, good ideas / direction goes a long way. https://t.co/ixNWQomsju
Joakim Janssontwitter.comBut what makes an interface successful? Beyond speed of performance, cohesive information sequences and anticipation of the human context and need, designing an experience that hopes to create feeling can only be done with feeling. The difference between good and bad becomes a matter of who can bring to bear greater focus and knowhow within the... See more
Callum Flack • The matter of taste — Callum Flack Design & Development
When I’m traveling, I like to bring back one thing where I say, This could only exist here . As unattainable as it may seem, I want to have things in my life where I say, ‘I can’t link to this. I came upon it by chance, it’s imperfect, it has a soul, and probably no one else has it.’”
Blackbird Spyplane: The unlinked thing with a soul. It can feel
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GenAI is just another source of “raw footage” (albeit a unique one) that is used to craft a story. But the “craft” part (the editing, the taste, the precision of timing and style) only becomes more important with the abundance of content and every brand flooding the zone. The “Hollywood vs. AI” narrative is a red herring. The world’s greatest... See more
Scott Belsky • The New Stack of Entertainment, Tensions of the AI Age, & Navigating Cambrian Explosions
“Rather than understanding taste as the particular way a person does a thing, I will argue that taste is a measurement of how well a person is able to see and act within a problem space. That it is the ability to skip ahead over previously assimilated decisions to get to the heart of a matter. And that the process of doing this over and over within a domain turns the many small insights made into a muscle memory of shortcuts that are stored as aesthetic feelings, away from the cognitive expense of language and reason. Much more than just a style of doing, good taste is a measure of a person's intuitive understanding of a problem space.”
