do people know you can pay for custom pieces

Like, if a door knocker is that important to you, like an upper-middle class 19th century homeowner, you can just... pay 500$ or so for a nice one. I promise you that the 19th century homeowner paid much more for their's, adjusted for inflation.

Why is the latest trend on the global information sharing network to nonsensically obfuscate the information that you want to share?

I fucking hate this shit.

We're censoring "useless" now?

Is "useless" a bad word now too?

I would be shocked if simple door knockers weren't common side-by-side with the ornate door knockers throughout history. But being simpler and of a lower quality, they would neither be as notable nor endure until today.

Why are we censoring usernames

we keep moving the craft of being human into that of being technology

I like the right one better.

They want the AI to create the left one, then blame artists for the right one.

The reason behind the change is industrialization. The right one is just a regular handle with wider appeal, the left one needs more specialized equipment and is only applicable to people wanting that style of handle, not a handle of function.

My take is that capitalism is the cause.

But aren't people with art degrees the ones designing the new sterile, soulless things?

There's a beauty in simplicity

How about in neither willing not capable to pay a few k for a fucking door knob just for it to be custom made and beautiful.

This dip shit is comparing what would nowadays be Trumps or Musks door.

How about we create a world in which you didn't need a degree for beautiful things to be created?

I don't know why I find this so infuriating to me, it feels soo wrong on so many levels.

Does the one on the left keep the religious loonies away?

One kid with an art degree, another on the way. Art is life.

When we are free to pursue what our heart desires, more art happens.

I hate that minimalist designs aren't acknowledged as artistic.

In my opinion, it is no different than the ai idiots who think all art needs to be hyperrealistic; That good art is hyperrealistic.

That knocker is almost perfect

There just needs to be an even tinnier knocker in the tiny demon’s mouth

Having an art degree does not make one an artist.

Not saying that art degrees are useless, just that they don't inherently result in any art being created.

Zbrush and a 3d printer could fix that. But you would need something heavy on the ring bottom to knock properly.
Or add a sensor to detect movement and inform your homeassistant.

Have won in cost, and have lost in cost.

How many of those art degree holders could even design such a knocker today? This is way different from just producing Rorschach images or clumping-together-random-stuff "sculptures".