Sorry for being late but i finally read the article. The article is hard for me because i hate reading especially readings that i hav to read couple of times to understand the topiccc and stuff.So i’ve also read jessica’s response and that helped me a lot in understanding the article.I am writing directly in the post so there is no spell/grammer check;so i know that my wiriting is going to be confuse somehow.
I’ve read the article of Marisa Olson’s article, and theme/point of the article is to advertise the fact that internet had cause one too many people to download images off the net. I agreed to this because the fact the fact are that i too download images off the net for my assignment for classes. I have to admit that i never consider the fact i am taking others work, but it is sort of like a collection of stuff that interested me and inspiring graphic. So if I actually like the fact that we are able to download images online, because this power is not possible 20 years back. So being able to have interested photo in your desktop simply by dragging them to your desktop is a very helpful tool.
p.s and i made a mistake, i posted on jwong8′s blog instead of prattim blog
Hi Jason,
Actually, Marisa definitely encourages people to download and use images from the internet, but what she is saying is that the WAY that you choose and reuse the images is most important to the process. For example, to take an image of say, a ribbon-cutting ceremony and place it on your website is not interesting. However, to place that image next to so many others very much like it, like in the project Pseudo Event, says something more than the original image.
The subject of when it is appropriate for images to be reused, artistically or legally, is a very grey area, but one that transcends the art world, design world, into our larger digitized culture.