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Re:Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube by colechristensen on Thursday January 27, 2022 @04:08AM (#30098062)
So you think a Roman temple or senator weren’t commissioning statues of beautiful naked women for effectively marketing purposes?

Like people who think anything Mozart or Shakespeare is high art but fail to realize both are full of dirty jokes.

Re:Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube by 4gotunameagain on Thursday January 27, 2022 @04:48AM (#30098343)
Past achievements should be considered within their timescale. If I build a water clock now, it would be cool. But Ctesibius building a water clock in 250 BC, now that's fucking impressive.

3D printing a human bust is cool. Sculpting a human bust three thousand years ago? That's incredible.

Will those videos or that dressmaker's dummy have any artistic value in the future ?

Please.

Re:Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube by colechristensen on Thursday January 27, 2022 @12:45PM (#30103576)
A modern day engineer designing and building 3d printers then scanning themselves in to building a physical model of themselves is I think roughly equivalent to a 2000 year old sculptor learning the by then commodity trade of stonecarving.

Both skilled artisans doing things which did require a lot of training but also not uncommon in their own age. Let’s not infantilize the past and pretend everything they did was mindblowing.