As Sunday morning/night approached, I realized I had no clue what to do for this project. Thinking back to the graffiti example in class, I could feel the creative juices, with the help of some Red Bull, beginning to flow. I should never be confused for an artist, but I was determined to make copyright look good. Real good...Copyright never looked this good before.
Needless to say, that didn't really happen. With a full head of eccentric steam, I Google image-searched for "Copyright symbol", and didn't stop until .002 seconds later, when this crazy search was over. I chose a really neat symbol, because they all looked so different, and clicked "copy/paste" knowing I had the freedom to take at will anything I so desired.
After this, I spent about 10 hours on facebook.
Fresh off my google searching, I opened up adobe fireworks ready to dominate. Too bad "fireworks" dominated me. I had had very limited experience with photoshop in the past, but I mainly relied on any image editing via ms paint, which consisted of drawing lines all over the place. After tinkering around with various buttons and hoping for the best, I ended up with this:
Yes, it's the Soviet hammer/sickle along with the scales of justice portraying some sort of conflict or balance, along with the US Flag and Constitution in the background reminding the viewer where copyright LAWS lie relative to our culture and freedom-concerning copyright.I think.
Public Domain images aren't as nice as non-public domain images. That's why this looks like...not as good.
You can decide for yourself what that is "saying". (duh)Getting to the real core of this overly long post, I did like this project a lot. Forcing us to use non-public domain images in the second picture made me realize the extent to which copyright stretches on the internet, and also why the second picture was harder to make. I personally liked the first picture the best, especially since it took me a good chunk of time just learning how to use the basic tools of adobe. My concept of copyright has not changed, just reinforced. This project brought abstract, visual elements to a highly literary, rigid, and lawful concept that is copyright. It was fun to do this and learn how to use the computer things at the same time. These class projects are continuing to surprise me, and I like it.
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My non-copyrighted project definitely did not turn out as well as the first one. It's such a pain to find pictures that aren't copyrighted. I mean, no one is even going to see these projects. Anyway, I had a little trouble with communicating my message too. I hope people get it.
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