I&#x27;ve noticed that 2D artists&#x2F;non-sculptors who engage in strange mediums or techniques generally only make realistic closeup portraits of people. I saw the headline, thought &quot;neat, but I bet he just makes normal expressionless faces.&quot; Opened the page and it seems like that&#x27;s the vast majority of his work. As an artist myself, I&#x27;m always like ehhhhh when I see this. Feels a bit like the kind of stuff you see for sale in tourist areas.The technique is cool though.

Reminds me of the artist that shipped glass cubes via FedEx, letting the box throwers make the art for him.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;museemagazine.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;15&#x2F;walead-beshty-the-end-game" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;museemagazine.com&#x2F;features&#x2F;2018&#x2F;10&#x2F;15&#x2F;walead-beshty-...</a>

I agree. This artist, while technically interesting, has nothing to do with AI, and so has no place on the front page.

This is Hacker News. I can&#x27;t think of a better way of someone &quot;hacking&quot; something (i.e. using cracked glass in a novel way) to create something new, unexpected, and incredible.I think this is probably the best idiomatic example of the type of story that I think belongs on HN that I&#x27;ve seen in quite some time.

“Please don&#x27;t post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It&#x27;s a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.”--<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;newsguidelines.html</a>&gt; While interesting […]“On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting” --also hnguidelines

HN waiting for the artist to announce on X that he&#x27;s remaking all his works in rust.

I think it&#x27;s a welcome breath of fresh air considering how much AI slop is on HN lately

While interesting, it doesnt feel like it belongs here. Maybe it is the volume these days but more and more the articles are turning into reddit posts.

Hi, I submitted the OP because I found it cool and interesting, esp after seeing the clip of the artist creating a piece using only a hammer.My only motivation for submitting the OP was thinking that others here would find it cool and interesting too.That falls within the HN guidelines, don&#x27;t you think?

I might agree with you as a knee jerk, but I believe &quot;the medium is the message&quot;[1] and I don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s anything particularly meaningful or evocative about shattered glass as opposed to any other planar medium.[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_medium_is_the_message" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;The_medium_is_the_message</a>

I disagree quite a bit. For me the medium, the technique, the process is all part of the art. Yet I still think the end result is also critical. But coming up with create ways to produce art matters.And I am confused about the “doing it any other way”? I don’t really see other ways to achieve the same result. Say painting and photography will both produce end results that are quite different. The skills are very different. The end material is also quite different. The same way stained glass is quite different from painting

I love that HN has a diverse set of topics, I didn&#x27;t mean that. I mean: here usually the artistic and literature stuff appearing are more interesting. This looks like the average Facebook art content with many upvotes.

Same here. As much as I enjoy a lot of the technical stuff, I never click on 80% if it because it is often “thing that already exist but in lisp&#x2F;rust&#x2F;etc, new tool similar to X to free&#x2F;one extra feature&#x2F;lightweight”. So unless it is a strong interest of mine, my area of expertise, or something that makes me curious it is a skip.Stuff like that though always makes me curious

while i’m definitely a newcomer in HN terms, i love seeing things like this on the front page. it’s certainly interesting

Happy for him but this has no real artistic meaning compared to doing it in any other way. Odd to see things like that on HN.

Artist who "paints" portraits on glass by hitting it with a hammer