Comments on: Kind of screwed http://snarkmarket.com/2011/7104 The stomping grounds of Tim Carmody, Robin Sloan and Matt Thompson. It's a long-running conversation about media, journalism, technology, cities, culture, design, books, music, movies, the future and the past. Tue, 14 May 2013 15:49:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Nav http://snarkmarket.com/2011/7104/comment-page-1#comment-33929 Nav Tue, 28 Jun 2011 06:15:41 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=7104#comment-33929 Sorry, I missed this earlier, but yeah, you're quire right. I think I was trying to make it about "8 bit" because that's more interesting to me :) Interestingly, Techdirt's Mike Masnick today claimed something interesting: that all photography is a transformation of an original something into a work of art. You might even say that transformation of a scene into a still image is what makes it art. Seemed an interesting way to think about things: art is always-already 'there' - technology/techne unconceal it. Link here: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110625/01030814852/if-jay-maisels-photograph-is-original-artwork-then-so-is-pixelated-cover-kind-bloop.shtml Sorry, I missed this earlier, but yeah, you’re quire right. I think I was trying to make it about “8 bit” because that’s more interesting to me :)

Interestingly, Techdirt’s Mike Masnick today claimed something interesting: that all photography is a transformation of an original something into a work of art. You might even say that transformation of a scene into a still image is what makes it art. Seemed an interesting way to think about things: art is always-already ‘there’ — technology/techne unconceal it. Link here:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110625/01030814852/if-jay-maisels-photograph-is-original-artwork-then-so-is-pixelated-cover-kind-bloop.shtml

]]> By: Robin Sloan http://snarkmarket.com/2011/7104/comment-page-1#comment-33451 Robin Sloan Fri, 24 Jun 2011 17:23:10 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=7104#comment-33451 Hmm, but look at the other really high-profile case recently: Shepard Fairey's Obama poster. To me, that's just as clear—like, you've got to me kidding me, that's a legit copyright claim?—but he was in pretty hot water, too. Granted, we'll never know how that case would have turned out b/c Fairey kinda ruined his own position, and ended up settling... but still. Same core claim. Hmm, but look at the other really high-profile case recently: Shepard Fairey’s Obama poster. To me, that’s just as clear—like, you’ve got to me kidding me, that’s a legit copyright claim?—but he was in pretty hot water, too. Granted, we’ll never know how that case would have turned out b/c Fairey kinda ruined his own position, and ended up settling… but still. Same core claim.

]]> By: Nav http://snarkmarket.com/2011/7104/comment-page-1#comment-33190 Nav Fri, 24 Jun 2011 02:55:15 +0000 http://snarkmarket.com/?p=7104#comment-33190 So, in a way, beyond the horrible suckage of this, the case seemed to hinge on whether or not the 8-bit aesthetic represents something transformative or its simply derivative. I wonder if this would have gone differently if "8-bit" were more established or 'respected' within the mainstream. It seems so off to me. What possible threat to the original or the photographer did this pixellated version represent? So, in a way, beyond the horrible suckage of this, the case seemed to hinge on whether or not the 8-bit aesthetic represents something transformative or its simply derivative.

I wonder if this would have gone differently if “8-bit” were more established or ‘respected’ within the mainstream. It seems so off to me. What possible threat to the original or the photographer did this pixellated version represent?

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