Ask HN: A site like Hacker News, but about art?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=625854

by nahumfarchi • 17 years ago

22 17 17 years ago

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Hey all.

I was just wondering if there's a site out there that's like hn but dedicated to art and design instead of tech and science. I saw a few things here about design and typography, but it's mostly tech and science.

greengirl512• 17 years ago

I couldn't find one. If there's not a site like that out there already, there really should be!

pufuwozu• 17 years ago

http://undrln.com/ is advertising, marketing and design.

oldgregg2• 17 years ago

What does it say that HN has much better design than this site?

noaharc• 17 years ago

Out of curiosity, what are the differences which make you say that?

jtillery• 17 years ago

Pretty cool idea.I would totally be interested in that.

aseclear• 17 years ago

Not really a community voting site, but http://woostercollective.com/ showcases some pretty interesting stuff from around the world.

yan2• 17 years ago

wooster collective is mostly about street art iirc. I like and follow: http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/, http://illusion.scene360.com/

jay_kyburz• 17 years ago

http://www.notcot.org/

BjornW• 17 years ago

What about rhizome.org? I'll admit that I only visit it perhaps once a month, but it if you like art perhaps rhizome is something to check out? Oh, as far as I know its more a blog than a community, so not exactly like HN.

albion• 17 years ago

http://ffffound.com/ is pretty good

yan2• 17 years ago

Speaking of ffffound, does anyone know how to get invites?

zimbabwe• 17 years ago

If you're looking for design, ilovetypography and SmashingMag.

If you're looking for "general art", you're dealing with an incredibly tough subject, because each specific field of art requires just as much focus as the field of computer programming. There are few similarities in technique between composing and popular songwriting and rap, for instance, in the field of music alone. Oil painting and photography and sculpting and weaving are all drastically different. So the only depth you could get on a general art site would be something like "Look at such-and-such pretty thing," unless it was very cleverly designed to allow for more in-depth conversation. Then you'd have to convince those sorts of people to use the site, and some varieties of artists almost routinely avoid the Internet.

Hacker News works because programming is very online-intensive as-is. Art isn't. Making the transition is very hard. I should know: I've made three attempts thus far.

quizbiz• 17 years ago

Start one at slinkset.com

kailoa• 17 years ago

Dustin Curtis recommended me 3 sites on twitter the other day:

http://www.alistapart.com/ Articles and reference

http://creattica.com/ Social voting on CSS, logos, biz cards etc.

http://typophile.com/ Mostly discussion as far as I can tell.

Creattica is by far my favorite for just browsing. ALA is popular destination for anyone involved in web design.

Ask HN: A site like Hacker News, but about art?

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