http://www.livejournal.com/talkread.bml?journal=jwz;itemid=74635
What’s art? jwz’s link to that site about the 1988 MacSE with a 1923 Underwood typewriter as its keyboard generated these comments:
atakra: yet another “artist” with too much time on his hands.
jwz: Can I be as cool as you someday?
baconmonkey: you see, a true artist, one who doesn’t have a lot of time on their hands, merely uses photoshop to lift a concept from a movie, as opposed to engineering something physical, tangible, and functional based loosely on something from a movie.
Is something more (or less) like art if it actually works?
(I think jwz considers this a cool hack, not art. I have a blurred memory of jwz posting a comment to slashdot in which he expressed his disgust that something very similar to his webcollage was being exhibited as art. Then there’s this helpful infographic.)