{"id":16406,"date":"2014-06-22T16:03:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T16:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-dont-think-you-can-last-by-meeting-the\/"},"modified":"2014-06-22T16:03:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T16:03:34","slug":"i-dont-think-you-can-last-by-meeting-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/i-dont-think-you-can-last-by-meeting-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I don\u2019t think you can last by meeting the contemporary public taste, the taste from the last quarterly report. I don\u2019t think you can last by following demographics and carefully meeting expectations. I don\u2019t know many works of art that last that are condescending. I don\u2019t know many works of art that last that are deliberately stupid. You may be a geek, you may have geek written all over you; you should aim to be one geek they\u2019ll never forget. Don\u2019t aim to be civilized. Don\u2019t hope that straight people will keep you on as some kind of pet. To hell with them; they put you here. You should fully realize what society has made of you and take a terrible revenge. Get weird. Get way weird. Get dangerously weird. Get sophisticatedly, thoroughly weird and don\u2019t do it halfway, put every ounce of horsepower you have behind it. Have the artistic *courage* to recognize your own significance in culture!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>Bruce Sterling, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lib.ru\/STERLINGB\/story.txt_with-big-pictures.html\">&ldquo;The Wonderful Power of Storytelling&rdquo;<\/a>\u00a0(1991),\u00a0on how computer game designers might hope to achieve a lasting impact beyond the temporal boundary of their obsolescing platforms (via <a href=\"http:\/\/notational.tumblr.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">notational<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t think you can last by meeting the contemporary public taste, the taste from the last quarterly report. I don\u2019t think you can last by following demographics and carefully meeting expectations. I don\u2019t know many works of art that last that are condescending. I don\u2019t know many works of art that last that are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4gC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}