Whenever I start a creative project [like] a movie script or video
One of the first thoughts that I have is "am I being original?"
For an aspiring artist [a] big fear is to be fake a copycat
artists who steal ideas
styles and
creative work from others are generally disliked in the words of CaseyNeistat
Thing about being original about original ideas is that it's about looking internally what motivates me
in finding ideas there
The thing about theft is that you cheat, you just look at what somebody else is doing and say I'll just do what he's doing
And I'll pretend that was my own idea
Yet, I myself just as many others have people I look up to, people whose work inspires me, work that I want to emulate
The line between being creative and someone who rips off others is not always clear
Especially, in the last 15 years with the coming of the web 2.0 a heated discussion has evolved around this question
On the one hand the world of fan art, remixing and mashups in both the music and video industry
has been bigger than ever before.
The videos of one of my favorite YouTube editors Grayble424 illustrates this dilemma.
Now beside the question if someone should be sued or paid for work like this
In what ways is this or is this not creative?
He does not use any music or visuals that he made himself with Kenny's creativity lies somewhere else
in Rip a remix manifesto this question is explored the documentary centers around the battle between remix artists of today
and the Big Media corporations that are trying to protect their copyrights
In doing this the documentary defines the way culture is created and protected in an interesting way
The documentary explains that culture is always built upon the culture of the past
The documentary states that the culture of the past
is always controlling the culture of today
According to the documentary
remix artists are not something created by the web 2.0
Instead they have always existed.
A great example of this is the work of our Disney. But what Disney did
better than perhaps anybody else was to take works that were in the public eye and
Updated it and made it relevant for our age
Walt Disney as an artist was in fact a remix artist
Many of his works were inspired upon earlier creative work. This is also true for many artists in all creative industries
Yet one won't die and Disney became a corporation. It started to protect the work with copyright licensing
Limiting others to build upon what earlier work
For example there was a huge dispute on the drawing of Mickey mouse by other artists who tried to present in different contexts
So if creative for work is always in a sense of remix, how do aspiring artists create inspired and great work?
Well rip a remix manifesto argues for cultural revolution of the people against the big corporations
Austin Kleon has created a guide on how to work within the frame of being a remix artist
It is book "Steal like an artist"
He agrees creative work is inherently a remix also pointing towards famous artists who were aware of this themselves
It comes down to trying to expose yourself to the best things that humans had done
And then try to bring those things in to what you're doing
I mean picasso had a sayings and "good artists copy, great artists steal"
A bad artists, according to Kleon, steals from the source, a great artist steals from many sources
A gGreat artist is a collector of work that inspires him from which he can draw at any time
He stands on the shoulders of great artists before him
and remixes their work and then adds something of his own. One of the greatest examples of artists who work this way is filmmaker, Quentin Tarantino
Breaking through in the 90s, he seems to have created a completely new genre of cinema
as Brad Pitt puts it "a reviewer might say a film is Tarantinos he may also be it may also be Tarantian
Tarantinoish and a Tarantino"
Yet at the same time
Tarantino is a self-admitted remix artist
the Influences of other films on this work is tremendous and many shots and scenes can literally be found in old movies
so when it comes to collecting and using work from others there's none like him
as an employee of a video store he watched thousands of films, bad and good, and from all these films
He has taken many ideas shots and lessons in how to structure scenes one of his greatest influences,
He says, is the good the bad and ugly
I would invite you to compare the scene structure of the final standoff in the good bed and ugly and out of the baseball bat scene
And inglorious basterds you can find links to the scenes below
I think what we can learn from all this is that we don't have to look inside some magical place in our brains where
Original work is just kind of creative
Insteads we have to look up to our heroes and take from them and steal from them and remix it into something new
better and with our own voices in it. If we do that, maybe
We can create something special and some leave it
Like this just might be my masterpiece
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