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Comment by mwidell | Hacker News Reader

I have to say, it looks pretty boring and underwhelming to me.

Ok, but please don't post unsubstantive comments here.

"Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

How can you evaluate an experiential project after looking at a handful of 640x480 pictures?

I evaluate lots of things by looking at pictures of them. Turns out to be pretty accurate in most cases.

Do you also look at pictures from a musical performance and decide that the band is out of tune?

Pictures probably don’t do it justice. Things like that may need to be experienced live.

You mean experience boredom in real life? There is absolutely nothing to see there.

I think you mean "I don't like this art"

If you intend on commenting to replace any positive critique with "I like this art" as well then carry on.

I'm genuinely unsure. The photos are alienating. Usually, I don't like that kind of art, but sometimes its interesting and being in something massive, created, somebody else's vision, is occasionally great. Nazca. Different. I saw Richard Serrra's work in Bilbao, it was amazing. Andy Goldsworthy did giant pieces in the forests of the UK and also tiny ones. Art in nature can be fantastic, there are metal figures set into the Nullarbor plain thousands of kilometres from anyone by Anthony Gormley I'd love to see.

Frank Lloyd wrights place in Phoenix AZ would have been monumental if he could have afforded it.

Arcosanti? Christo and the curtain across the valley?

What's not to love? What does it mean? I have no idea.

For some, there is a lot to see. I’d definitely visit it if I were in the area. I think it looks super interesting.

Agreed. What a monumental waste of money to create something that's ultimately boring as hell.

it will do far less damage to society than facebook and tiktok

Does that make it any less wasteful and boring?

It’s hilarious to see people bitch about huge amounts of money being given away to create useless crap on a VC site.

It’s probably a subconscious critique of suburban sprawl. Highways, strip malls, no trees - industrial.

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