I was looking at all the projects under the content section at learn@UW and it looked like all the projects took such a long time and they were all (dare I say) creative! I thought the project was somewhat difficult (the coming up with the idea of what I wanted to state in my cartoon, and how exactly to go about doing it). At first, I thought the assignment was to create a visual argument (in general) and the same one using our own stuff - but it had to be about copyright/creativity/ownership, etc. So, I scrapped my first idea of telling parents not to let their kids play with matches (lest they wanted to start another San Diego Fire). However, then I was really forced to think.
HOW ON EARTH was I going to make an argument about copyright and creativity with art? First off, I'm not very art-sy to begin with, and secondly, what?! So, i brainstormed and thought about this for about three good days (admittedly it was intermittedly), and then it was weird - on saturday i was about to take a nap - and then the idea STRUCK me - Good ole' Uncle Sam vs. Creativity and Innovation (Uncle Sam, with a larger sphere of influence definately kicked BUTT). Unfortunately for us all, Uncle Sam is a bit too protective of a paternal figure, so I made the argument that Uncle Sam is too powerful, kick's innovation's/creativity's butt and PERHAPS, he should cool down.
yeah - I know, not as IMPRESSIVE as the others, but i thought it was a good idea! :)
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I looked at your sampling projects and understood your argument right away. Maybe, because I agree with what you were saying, it was easier for me to see the "message". I won't speak for everyone, but I know that I as well felt like I was not very creative with this project. But, that could be due to the fact that we were using other people's images and ideas to express our own arguments. So maybe we were being more creative than we thought...
I dunno, I thought your projects were really good (so good in fact that I used them in my remix... hee hee). I'm not "artsy" either, so I can sympathize with that. I thought you did a good job though.
When I first learned of the assignment, I was also puzzled how to make a visual argument about something so abstract. Good job though!
I think Sampling almost takes more thought than simply sitting down and writing. You have to essentially do the writing and then search for a means to express it. I suppose you could also gather images and see what kind of argument emerges as you sort and resort, but it's complicated either way. I'm not surprised it took a while to nail down--I like the fact that the eureka moment came right before a nap.
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