• mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    If I paint a landscape by hand, and generate one flower, does it stop being art?

    The craft of Koyaanisqatsi was editing. People have recreated it using stock footage, as a complicated joke, and frankly the message still works. The whole original movie is an arrangement of uncoordinated b-roll. There are no actors. There is no dialog. Any individual part is almost meaningless, but the gestalt is an award-winning cultural touchstone.