[NetBehaviour] For what it's worth, by Pall Thayer

[Pall Thayer]

...unless you're selling cocaine.

On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 9:59 PM Pall Thayer <pallthay at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, and that's another funny part of the piece. It's a very small and
> exclusive group that is able to donate, those who have and use bitcoin.
> There's a lot of "noise" out there now but those who actually have bitcoin
> are pretty few and far between.
>
> On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 9:55 PM Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> In a way the value's always there, in the code; and I approach your work
>> with a sense of wonder, in fact, at the depth of it, as is... I couldn't
>> donate - my own work's not supported, I have to put whatever surplus I
>> have, into it...
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 21 Jun 2015, Pall Thayer wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks, Alan.
>> >
>> > The whole concept of tying the "value" of this piece to donations
>> (which affect the length and complexity of it) is intended
>> > as a bit of a joke. The "system" that guides the work is already fully
>> created so that, strictly speaking, the donations and
>> > therefore, additional drawings and sounds are not really adding "value"
>> to the piece. The joke is that it's worth whatever
>> > people are willing to throw at it.
>> >
>> > Also, the fact that the source code is all made available adds another
>> twist. Someone could set up their own instance and make
>> > up a bunch of transaction data to make the audio-visual part more
>> interesting. This goes back to the point that all of the
>> > value is already there... in the code.
>> >
>> > Best r.
>> > Pall
>> >
>> > On Sun, Jun 21, 2015 at 12:38 PM Alan Sondheim <sondheim at panix.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >       Count me in on this one; it also goes, at least in terms of
>> music, to open
>> >       source; people expect free music, period. So for Avatar Woman, we
>> had 8-9
>> >       absolutely stunning reviews - and over a six month period, sold 3
>> copies.
>> >       People just listened to the samples, that was it.
>> >
>> >       Loved Paul's work myself, by the way - Alan
>> >
>> >       On Sun, 21 Jun 2015, Edward Picot wrote:
>> >
>> >       > This is excellent! Really well-conceived and well-executed. The
>> audio was so
>> >       > painful to my ears that I had to snatch my headphones off, but
>> that's not
>> >       > really a criticism. To me, the animated 'splash' which appears
>> in the middle
>> >       > of the screen resembles both someone throwing a pot of paint at
>> the artworks,
>> >       > and those complex spirograph-style patterns of fine lines which
>> appear on
>> >       > banknotes.
>> >       >
>> >       > We keep coming back to this theme, don't we? The fact that some
>> 'established'
>> >       > art is worth millions whereas there are talented artists
>> languishing on all
>> >       > sides who can't make the price of a busfair out of their work.
>> I suppose to
>> >       > the general public it might come across as self-absorbed
>> bellyaching, but
>> >       > actually it's a reflection of the gaps between the haves and
>> the have-nots in
>> >       > society at large.
>> >       >
>> >       > - Edward
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