{"id":1406,"date":"2014-07-30T13:38:54","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T13:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notes.nicedream.net\/?p=1406"},"modified":"2014-07-30T13:38:54","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T13:38:54","slug":"digital-malefactor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/digital-malefactor\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Malefactor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.idleworm.com\/arts\/malefactor.shtml\">idleworm.com<\/a> on the seizure of power by technocrats:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>No longer is the artwork on paper, it&#8217;s digital. Multiple versions can be saved. The image is on layers. Changes can be made for &#8216;free&#8217; by any opinionated bumbleduff in a suit. Once the bean-counters realised that they could stand behind the artist&#8217;s shoulder and issue commands, we entered the age of pixel-pushing. The artist\/designer no longer has any real autonomy as final decisions about tones, saturation, and composition were ceded to bean-counters who have little knowledge of the concepts, beyond the crudest level&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Once total control of the design process passed to bean-counters, it created a negative feedback loop. There was no apparent penalty for this method, and the public continued to buy movie tickets or magazines. The expectation that a certain level of design competence was required unconsciously began to fade&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>A similar rot infests architecture, journalism, writing, politics, and other areas. Where will it end? There seems to be a drift towards a contempt for excellence, a dumbed-down worship of the banal or third rate, and rule by bean-counters. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"idleworm.com on the seizure of power by technocrats: No longer is the artwork on paper, it&#8217;s digital. Multiple versions can be saved. The image is on layers. Changes can be made for &#8216;free&#8217; by any opinionated bumbleduff in a suit. Once the bean-counters realised that they could stand behind the artist&#8217;s shoulder and issue commands,&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/digital-malefactor\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}