I tend to like Banksy a lot, even in things that are different than his "usual" style and type of work (graffiti), as in this case with a statue.
More generally, I am wondering if anyone has a good explanation of what makes an artist "click" with the world, become famous, and usually raise the price of his/her artwork. I can bet that today it costs a lot to own anything by Banksy, considering that most of his work is not even "detachable" from its original creation point.
What raised the price of Banksy initially was that he gave it a price; he was the only graffiti artist doing gallery exhibitions and selling art.
Before he put it in a gallery, nobody considered it have any value.
I dabble in correcting other people’s spelling on occasion (can’t help it). Somewhat frustratingly, the usual reaction is “language evolves” and “everyone uses it this way” and “if it is understood, it does not matter how you wrote it”.
Still, "loose" is confusing because it makes me think for one second of the actual word "loose", so it breaks the cadence of reading (and thus it is not really "understood"). If the word "loose" didn't exist, I would have no problem with people misspelling "lose" in this way and eventually becoming mainstream.
Well only to a point, I don't think there's been any significant or formal "we spell this existing word like this now" in a very long time.
The only way English language really evolves now is by the addition / invention / adoption of a new word or added meaning to existing words, like yeet, influencer, youtuber, incel, looksmaxxer and simp. And a lot of them are meme words not actually used in normal parlance. Others are the wider adoption of subculture specific words and expressions, like AAVE getting adopted by teenagers / young adults.
Reminds me of Token Ring vs Ethernet. Token Ring was arguably superior, but Ethernet was cheaper to license, and over time more investment went into Ethernet and eventually Ethernet won.
Xenobiology is a field of research in the study of the universe- lots of biology, speculative chemistry, and instrumentation design for detecting trace signatures and furious debate about whether observed signature imply life .. or something else.
Building a SKA radio telescope network has many challenges, not the least being increased noise from the LEO shell.
TBH there's a long long list of 'interesting' parts to the modern study of everything "out there", the greater question is what kinds of things do you find interesting?
Eg: Maggie Aderin found her way in via Engineering and then applied work on satellites and telescopes .. but is that really "astronomy" or just watchmaking for astronomers?
Either way, there's still a tonne of research that goes into the gadget building side of things, this goes hand in hand with those that theorise about black holes eating out the centres of galaxies, the cosmic background, on so on.
There also seems to be confusion about what I meant by "bare-metal." I wasn't intending to refer to the server ownership model, but rather the deployment model where you deploy software directly onto an operating system.
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