This is an interesting series of video essays concerning issues like intellectual property and copyright, and explores the idea of "what is original?"
I'm sure if the creator of the series, Kirby Ferguson, had turned his focus to comics, we would all be surprised (or maybe not surprised at all) at just how much of what we read/see in comics is actually just a remix of something else.
(make sure to check out all 4 parts and my apologies if you've already seen this, I've just stumbled on the series recently and found it fascinating)
great series.
ReplyDeleteThis documentary pretty much solidified everything I've been trying to tell a friend of mine. Nas summarized it best when he said "No idea is original. There's nothing new under the sun. It's never what you do but how it's done." Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteThank you, Travis. Very very interesting ! Masters of old centuries were copying, inspiring each others. If you don't know how to draw hair, see how Manara, Jean Giraud or Adam Hughes draw, try to understand, try to make the same... How to draw the light in the eyes, see others masters, maybe J. Scott Campbell, Bruce Timm or Osamu Tezuka. Different styles may bring one solution for you. By copying and analyzing, your own style will raise.
ReplyDeleteNow it's easier to pick up pictures with internet. Progress will be made faster. It's only work.
In international music, you can go to www.samples.fr and listen how Eminem, the Fugees, Kriss Kross, lady Gaga, Madonna and many others have proceeded step by step.
Hmm, good find, thanks for the post. I've already recommended it to a few others.
ReplyDeleteInitially I was a bit relieved from the burden of having to generate originality, though after musing on it for a while, I was kind of troubled by the thought of being nothing more than conceptual blender.
But then, I recalled what Napoleon Hill wrote about two kinds of imagination: synthetic imagination, which is what is featured in this Remix series, and the creative imagination. In describing the creative imagination, he cites examples of various innovators throughout history, particularly an inventor whose work would amount to isolating himself in a room and closing his eyes and listening while awaiting the ideas and visions to present themselves to him.
Sounds entirely mystical, for sure, but where do any ideas, remixed or not, originate from?
There is nothing new under the sun, as the ancient saying goes, and so it seems.
If true, then we must, somehow, reach up beyond the sun.