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Quitting engineering to pursue art full-time

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181 points Tomte | 3 comments | 27 Apr 24 10:26 UTC | HN request time: 0.015s | source
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Animats ◴[30 Apr 24 20:26 UTC] No.40215867[source]▶
This looks more like pursuing Instagramming full time.
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iamacyborg ◴[30 Apr 24 21:06 UTC] No.40216340[source]▶
Instagram is the marketing channel but you still need to put in the work to have something to promote.
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onemoresoop ◴[30 Apr 24 21:20 UTC] No.40216507[source]▶
fiddling with printers and plotters isn't the hard part, most likely the marketing part is because anything sells if you find the fools.

The whole stick of this article strikes me as marketing in the first place.

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salomonk_mur ◴[30 Apr 24 21:34 UTC] No.40216644[source]▶
I'm pretty sure you are severely understimating the amount of work that goes into quality art pieces, no matter the medium.

Also, thinking of customers as "fools" only makes sense if you believe you are selling/producing garbage. If what you make has value, then whoever buys it is no fool.

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1. onemoresoop ◴[30 Apr 24 21:50 UTC] No.40216828{3}[source]▶
You're also underestimating the amount of great quality art that simply doesn't sell. Hence the power of marketing. And the art that sells for lots and lots of money is also marketing and financial gimmicks the art world does behind the scenes. Unfortunately it's not quality that matters, it's the notoriety of the artist. It goes back to marketing in circles.
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2. Apocryphon ◴[30 Apr 24 23:42 UTC] No.40217825[source]▶
Perhaps the same can be said of tech.
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3. onemoresoop ◴[01 May 24 13:35 UTC] No.40223005[source]▶
Oh, absolutely.