Posts by 81stcolumn
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And if I have a dishwasher but never use it ?
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@Gio -Not saying that I am that good at either, but I am probably a better art historian than I am an artist. With that in mind when I look at mashup culture what concerns me is not really whether there is too little or too much, but how that culture will deal with the constraints placed upon it. Consequently my concern (which I have no means of legitimising) is that the current implementation of copyright is an unfair constraint on the creative process because it is unreasonably abstract from those who create. Unfortunately where I end up arguing with myself is it is not surprisingly over different versus better. Oh dear I may have stopped making sense altogether......
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It's not as if it's a life-saving drug or anything.
You are quite right but mickey mouse as an entertainment and cultural device has now seen three generations of use. I think artists are entitled to see mickey as a legitimate creative device to be re-worked. We might have got from here to here but what about this, this and this?
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Punctuating my life with a van like this seems entyrely possible.
Time to go make dinner for Mrs 81st and Mr.3 I think.
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<disclosure>
81st creative industries would like to point out that it has no present plans in the pipeline to re-make any religious epic.
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to James Butler,
but who is exercising the right
When I want to make the next Ben Hur (or whatever) I will need to go to the money men. Unfortunately the money men have money precisely because they can exploit my creativity. As to how this equation gets re-balanced is quite beyond me. But the time seems ripe to debate this as banks seem to be buying creative and intellectual output and manipulating them as assets which seems quite wrong to me.
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lurkers still massively outnumber commenters
I think that's because so many people here are reasonably experienced internet arguers -- right back to Usenet and listservs
I believe the above issues to be somewhat connected. This goes further than the intimidating scope of knowledge and expertise demonstrated by many who comment here, and on to someones ability to express themselves in a medium which appears IMHO to require a degree of practice. Not merely informed comments but made by those clearly skillful in expressing ideas within an internet forum. Which is I guess connected to Recordari's ninja skills point.
As for pedantry - fuggit what are they again ? Commers ?
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This may sound sad but was I the only one that found the twitter feed from #nethui utterly compelling ?
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Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you, in reply to bmk,
You never feel guilty about the cost to the country’s production you cause?:)
Have referred to my visits here as personal development...not sure I'm always joking. I certainly know of one or two other people who would benefit from dropping by.
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Had to look up mansplaining - Didn't know whether to laugh or cry...