My Balloons don't float
The concept for this was a little different to the end result- which has actually captured the essence of my thought in a deeper way. I planned to be in this shot, but it didn't work. So the girl has left the photograph :)
But a chance to try my new room! What do you think of all the white and my official grown up 4ft departure from a single bed?!
I want to just put something out there. The use of the word ‘inspired’ and usually followed by the word ‘by’.
It is something I am guilty of, but more and more online and especially within these types of communities I see it more and more and not in a good way.
Someone will shoot an image- whatever, be it fashion, self portrait, fine art, whatever- and in the description box they will say something like: This image was inspired by (XXXX) (usually a hyperlink to someone else’s image). For the purposes of writing we shall call the linked image the original and the other image the emulation.
So what happens? One of two things, if you’re like me, you will immediately hit the hyperlink to see what it is that caused this emulation, or you will totally ignore the link and comment on the image in its own merit. Personally I can’t understand the latter behaviour but I have concluded it does happen because many times the original image has considerably less hits than that of the emulation.
I would say in 9 times out of 10, I am always more impressed with the original image than that of the emulation. Because that is precisely what it is a copy, an imitation.
Maybe it is the way in which I have been schooled but in Art and Design schools in the UK, plagiarism is tantamount to swearing. You just don’t do it. I feel a lot of what I see is not ‘inspired by’ it’s a copy.
In my eyes, if you are going to be inspired by something it means jumbling it up sufficiently to a new place, where the original theme is carried through but the vehicle looks different. A bit like a 1930’s Ford and a 2011 Ford. Same engine concept- different shape.
And that is my rant.
Please feel free to share your thoughts :)
My Balloons don't float
The concept for this was a little different to the end result- which has actually captured the essence of my thought in a deeper way. I planned to be in this shot, but it didn't work. So the girl has left the photograph :)
But a chance to try my new room! What do you think of all the white and my official grown up 4ft departure from a single bed?!
I want to just put something out there. The use of the word ‘inspired’ and usually followed by the word ‘by’.
It is something I am guilty of, but more and more online and especially within these types of communities I see it more and more and not in a good way.
Someone will shoot an image- whatever, be it fashion, self portrait, fine art, whatever- and in the description box they will say something like: This image was inspired by (XXXX) (usually a hyperlink to someone else’s image). For the purposes of writing we shall call the linked image the original and the other image the emulation.
So what happens? One of two things, if you’re like me, you will immediately hit the hyperlink to see what it is that caused this emulation, or you will totally ignore the link and comment on the image in its own merit. Personally I can’t understand the latter behaviour but I have concluded it does happen because many times the original image has considerably less hits than that of the emulation.
I would say in 9 times out of 10, I am always more impressed with the original image than that of the emulation. Because that is precisely what it is a copy, an imitation.
Maybe it is the way in which I have been schooled but in Art and Design schools in the UK, plagiarism is tantamount to swearing. You just don’t do it. I feel a lot of what I see is not ‘inspired by’ it’s a copy.
In my eyes, if you are going to be inspired by something it means jumbling it up sufficiently to a new place, where the original theme is carried through but the vehicle looks different. A bit like a 1930’s Ford and a 2011 Ford. Same engine concept- different shape.
And that is my rant.
Please feel free to share your thoughts :)