Meaning that the author is maybe not very good at their craft, but inadvertently created a work with a lot more meaning than they intended, or they accidentally did something quite clever that they didn’t mean to. Or maybe a work which is good in its own right but there’s a particular “unofficial” interpretation which makes it so much better.

Obviously a bit of this question involves knowing authorial intentions, but in a lot of instances authors have been able to state that they did or didn’t intend a particular interpretation.

  • j4k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago
    The amount of info I was able to put into this one image is borderline art IMO.

    That is a 3 layer circuit board. If you looked at the full repo you would find how this evolved from low quality phone images into something more with time. I had the whole thing mapped out for connections based on continuity between vias but then was given some xrays and managed to map out every internal connection even though the xrays were not of a fully stripped and blank PCB. I even managed to figure out the way the central layer’s ground plane is routed between the various traces. I made and added the Inkscape vector of the microcontroller with all the pins mapped, every part number for components and it all goes with my unique style of naming and layout in KiCAD schematics. I strongly believe that every connection on a schematic should be fully descriptive without requiring cross referencing. The colors, varied transparency, and subtle ways that I added more and more information the deeper you zoom in is art and the kind of thing that could be implemented directly in something like KiCAD. I did all of the tracing in GIMP layers.

    Probably not exactly what you were asking, but I still find it artful 5 years later which is not something I normally say for things I have worked on. It came together in a totally unintended way after I was only looking for the easiest way to add the USB port of the chip to the built in connector which turned out impractical.

  • MoonMelon@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    This one is pretty obscure but I feel like it fits this question.

    For people who don’t know deep meme lore, YTMND was/is a site where people uploaded extremely short audio clips and images/gifs that went together. This all sprouted from a short clip of Sean Connery saying “You’re the man now, dog!” in the movie Finding Forester. Here’s the Know Your Meme page. Sometimes these were funny, sometimes they were artful and surreal, sometimes they were meta, usually they were just stupid.

    One day back in the stone ages I was browsing the site and I found this one:

    (CW racism):

    spoiler

    https://niggard.ytmnd.com/

    I have to say it struck me. I reverse image searched the painting and discovered it’s by an artist named Slowinski whose work is explicitly about fucked up shit in American society. In this case obesity, lotteries, a terrible food supply, etc. are literally murdering a black man but its presented like a carnival attraction. The music seems so fitting to me because it mimicked both how “Black is Beautiful” and Black American art fights against the narrative but is also co opted by capitalism to push the exact same poison. I even thought, “Wow, the name is a play on the N word but also its homophone which means someone who is miserly, perhaps additional commentary?” Fucking excellent, especially for YTMND.

    So I clicked the little “source” icon in the corner to see if the author had some insight on this and it’s literally just some kid who slowed down the song, thought it sounded like a “fat black guy”, and googled that then posted the image. Well fuck.

    I wouldn’t say it’s a masterpiece but I still remember it, especially the irony of it, and it was a fucking YTMND of all things, so I guess that counts for something.

  • MrBobDobalina@lemmy.nz
    5·
    3 days ago

    Commented about this recently somewhere else, so it’s what came to mind first - ‘Mother’ by Darren Aronofsky. I came away from watching it really excited about interpretations involving artists, egos, glorified relationships with their ‘muse’ that drains that partner completely until they have nothing more to give and are discarded, shattered, while the artist is adored etc.

    Aronofsky himself describes it with a fixed interpretation of (paraphrasing) ‘she represents mother earth, and we are taking from her and destroying her’. Which in my opinion is just kinda boring. I can see it fitting, but it just makes the whole movie much less interesting to me

  • DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 days ago

    The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle was a cheap cash-in thrown together with various outtakes, oddities, and such…and yet it’s as punk as it gets. On a meta level, it brilliantly deconstructs the music industry, rock & roll itself, and a few other things as well.

    It’s fun, too.

  • tunetardis@lemmy.caEnglish
    31·
    3 days ago

    Well I play violin in a Celtic bar band that mostly does covers, but back around the time of the pandemic when I was feeling super bored, I worked on a song I’m kind of proud of? It’s called Anticipation.

    I just casually mentioned to our lead singer that I had some licks that almost seem to be coming together like a song? He was similarly goofing around in his basement and said show me what you got? Next thing you know, I was trying to write parts for accordion and other instruments we had at the time using GarageBand on my iPad while he came up with some lyrics. I was a total amateur at this kind of thing and couldn’t believe it actually happened! But we eventually got it recorded with each band member coming in at different times for social distancing. We still play it once in a while at gigs when one of the regulars requests it.