{"id":339,"date":"2007-06-15T09:25:34","date_gmt":"2007-06-15T14:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/?p=339"},"modified":"2007-06-15T09:25:42","modified_gmt":"2007-06-15T14:25:42","slug":"ipod-blamed-for-stealing-the-thunder-from-contemporary-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/06\/ipod-blamed-for-stealing-the-thunder-from-contemporary-art\/","title":{"rendered":"iPod blamed for stealing the thunder from contemporary art"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.engadget.com\/~r\/weblogsinc\/engadget\/~3\/125049879\/\" >iPod blamed for stealing the thunder from contemporary art<\/a>:<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/technology\/ipods-to-blame-for-total-eclipse-of-the-art\/2007\/06\/13\/1181414383931.html\" ><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"4\" hspace=\"4\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogsmithmedia.com\/www.engadget.com\/media\/2007\/06\/6-13-07-hockney.jpg\"  alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve been yearning for controversy, why not meet Mr. David Hockney? Commonly know as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/Britain\/\" >Britain<\/a>&#8216;s best-loved living painter,&#8221; Hockney has suggested that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2007\/04\/09\/apple-sells-100-millionth-ipod-deems-experiment-a-success\/\" >proliferation of the iPod<\/a> has been a primary contributor to the recent &#8220;fallow period of painting.&#8221; He insists that today&#8217;s society is &#8220;all about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2007\/05\/09\/earpod-creation-could-add-auditory-menus-to-ipod-daps\/\" >sound<\/a>,&#8221; and even mentions that people are turning off their eyes and ignoring contemporary art whilst &#8220;plugging their ears.&#8221; Put simply, he believes the modern &#8220;decline in visual awareness&#8221; rests heavily on Apple&#8217;s own cash cow, and further stirred the pot by insinuating that it led to &#8220;badly dressed people&#8221; who cared not about lines nor mass. As expected, a spokeswoman for Apple Australia refuted the claims, and while we certainly have seen no shortage of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/tag\/design\/\" >brilliant creations<\/a> since the iPod explosion, there&#8217;s always two sides to the canvas.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iPod blamed for stealing the thunder from contemporary art: If you&#8217;ve been yearning for controversy, why not meet Mr. David Hockney? Commonly know as &#8220;Britain&#8216;s best-loved living painter,&#8221; Hockney has suggested that the proliferation of the iPod has been a primary contributor to the recent &#8220;fallow period of painting.&#8221; He insists that today&#8217;s society is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/2007\/06\/ipod-blamed-for-stealing-the-thunder-from-contemporary-art\/\"  class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">iPod blamed for stealing the thunder from contemporary art<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RRl-5t","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mattcastille.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}