{"id":1152,"date":"2021-07-11T03:35:27","date_gmt":"2021-07-11T07:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2021-07-11T15:01:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T19:01:38","slug":"high-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/?p=1152","title":{"rendered":"High art?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I ran across this on a list of top desks for 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"970\" height=\"546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/dancingbananadesk.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1154\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/dancingbananadesk.jpg 970w, https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/dancingbananadesk-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/dancingbananadesk-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My first thought was &#8220;Dancing banana animated GIF meme.&#8221;.  I haven&#8217;t looked up the designer nor their inspiration.  But to be honest, it doesn&#8217;t matter.  He\/she could tell me it came from their muse.  What matters&#8230; happenstance or deliberate, it&#8217;s an inanimate object that mimics an Internet meme that mimics a piece of fruit that mimics a dancing human being.  Is it high art just by the number of shoulders it&#8217;s standing on?  Or just a good example of &#8220;All creative work is derivative&#8221;?  Can I call it anthropomorphic?  Why not?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We stand on the shoulders of giants.  Or on the shoulders of dancing bananas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not my style of desk, but bravo!  Whimsical yet functional.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I ran across this on a list of top desks for 2021. My first thought was &#8220;Dancing banana animated GIF meme.&#8221;. I haven&#8217;t looked up the designer nor their inspiration. But to be honest, it doesn&#8217;t matter. He\/she could tell me it came from their muse. What matters&#8230; happenstance or deliberate, it&#8217;s an inanimate object &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/?p=1152\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;High art?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-art-and-design","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/1157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rfdm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}