{"id":472,"date":"2005-08-25T22:59:26","date_gmt":"2005-08-26T03:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/2005\/08\/25\/save-new-world\/"},"modified":"2005-08-25T22:59:26","modified_gmt":"2005-08-26T03:59:26","slug":"save-new-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/archives\/472","title":{"rendered":"[Save] New World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My investigation of comic art and commercial illustration goes back more years than I care to mention, and yet I continue to be clobbered by the work some of these Web-based artists are doing. Who are these people?!!! In the &#8220;old days,&#8221; alternative-media or &#8220;underground&#8221; art was weird, cluttered, and often ugly, but the imagery at many of these sites&#8212;like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boltcity.com\/\">Bolt City<\/a>&#8212;is flat-out beautissimous!\n<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I just need to grasp that this is a generation of artists who have mastered digital techniques and use the Web as an efficient tool for distribution and self-promotion. It&#8217;s a medium that simply wasn&#8217;t available until recently, if you factor in the explosion of high-speed connectivity. Any previous generation of creatives would have jumped all over it, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My investigation of comic art and commercial illustration goes back more years than I care to mention, and yet I continue to be clobbered by the work some of these Web-based artists are doing. Who are these people?!!! In the &#8220;old days,&#8221; alternative-media or &#8220;underground&#8221; art was weird, cluttered, and often ugly, but the imagery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/uj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}