Monday, November 4, 2013

Brett Gaylor's documentary I found to be an interesting argument between those who believe their "creations" are sacred and those who believe art based upon other artists work is still art. First of all I want to say that the notion of original ideas is ridiculous. Original ideas no longer exist even things we perceive as original ideas probably were inspired by things that came from a time long forgotten. Though I myself have copyrighted things in my time personally I believe copyrighting something is just a way for people to make more money off of an idea that is already making them a lot of money. This belief was made much more prevalent while watching this documentary. One story that really stood out to me was one of a pastor who was being sued by a company because he has one computer in his home which is the family computer. The man had never downloaded music in his life but he had his entire family plus friends of his kids who may have unintentionally downloaded music illegally and as a result he was sued. I like what Girl Talk did, I found his creativity to be extensive in that he used songs everyone knows and loves and put them together in his own style and vision to make something incredible. That is what I believe art is about taking things from the world around you and using them to create something of your very own.