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Comment by 4gotunameagain | Hacker News Reader

That's cool, but some plastic bags and a raspberry pi are not a "kinetic sculpture", sorry.

The definition of a kinetic sculpture is a sculpture that moves. You can't just redefine others professional language because you feel something else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_art

Seems to meet the terms.

"Kinetic art is art from any medium that contains movement perceivable by the viewer or that depends on motion for its effect."

Your comment seems to come from a place of hate and probably driven by your own issues. Much respect for this and many other artists that suffer from people like you

I don't care either way, but can we tone it down with the "this is hate" thing? That belongs on Twitter and Reddit, but not on HN.

It stems from the grandparent comment starting a thread like you'd see on reddit or Twitter, a shallow dismissal of someone's work as a hot take and... That's it.

Someone doing something you find objectionable is not a good reason to start doing it yourself. If a monkey in a zoo starts throwing feces in your direction, do you respond in kind?

I will leave your own words talking back at you...

> That belongs on Twitter and Reddit, but not on HN.

It definitely can be. Unsure why you feel the need to gatekeep what is or not a kinetic sculpture, if something moves and some consider it art why can't it be called a kinetic sculpture? Is there a minimum threshold defined somewhere about what can or cannot be called as such?

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