Inspiration = Rip?
At one glance , an innocuous word, ‘inspiration’ may seem to be related to the great paintings by Leonardo Da Vinci produced due the influence of Verrocchio, his teacher. Inspiration is usually associated with art and design.
In olden days, inspiration was thought to of a divine nature. The people believed it to be a gift of god. As time traveled across centuries of development, renaissance and revolution this inspiration found new meanings. Nowadays it is concerned with education,personality, paintings (abstract art too) and websites . Inspiration has found new galleries to showcase themselves in different mediums. They are umpteen inspirational personalities, masterpieces, materials and products available now(which makes me think that there is hardly anything divine in it anymore.)
I would like to center this post around ‘web inspiration’ a rather new term which has many possibilities of advancements and ramifications in different directions (and the way it gets corrupted by rippers and plagiarists). Before we get into this topic let me show you one of my works. A simple cover i did for my college magazine and the art that inspired me to do it(the one on the left is mine).
Well as you can see the better one is the original found from here .
First Question!.Is my art a rip of the other? The fact that I’m calling the other one ‘an original’ is itself an assertion of the fact that i borrowed a lot of ideas from ‘the time‘ by Nazan Dedeoglu. Borrowed? uh oh! I don’t know Nazan. Borrowing without his consent is stealing right? Assuming the above case to be true i rephrase my statement. I stole his art!. But then in my defense i have a sweet word which is manipulated by every known ripper artist in the world(i’m not one,in any way).
Inspiration .
Boy!Haven’t we always wondered what the difference between the words Inspiration and a Rip means.
Many websites have been on the lookout for Web rip off! On such site is pirated-sites.com.(check out their more believable Flickr account with screen shots) Obviously the hapless culprits tried to model upon the the original site,(starting from pure inspiration), slowly accumulating a lot of the parent website features and finally transforming into a truly fascinating rip of the former. Most of the websites under attack are from people in the same circle of involvement, say Web design studios. The best part is the style how the original creators write about their ripper counterparts! They go commenting from ’shameless f**king @#$%@’ to ‘nice try buddy,better luck next time. While most of the counterfeits are dismissed off with a ‘disgraceful act’ tag, the clicks to the uri keep increasing dramatically, (increasing the link popularity dumbo!). The ripped sites are usually replaced with more impressive original creations in very short time.
Inspiration usually is accepted if it is about using the styles of the original artist in a different way with his/her flavor mixed in it to produce an completely different art.Whoosh!Thats all i can squeeze out of me. Besides it all depends on what the original artist thinks about his alleged rip off art.
FOOTNOTES:
1)My art was not used in any profitable venture or my college magazine( ,they rejected it because it was too complex a concept of time!) or was not sold to any enterprising group. Besides i still think it is an inspired art. Oops there we go again!…
July 29th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Well, i guess one could judge a ‘rip’ from ‘inspired creation’ by the sheer obviousness of it. Something that is made by a modifying a portion of the original could be, a base definition of a rip. Whatever comes out from your brain, you put it there. And from that point on, its yours to keep. This is not a very encompassing definition; for eg., you could memorise a passage and recite it…
But, i guess it all boils down to the spirit in which it is used.
P.S.
To be frank, i liked the one on the left. Much more cleaner.
July 29th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
Well, is there anyway to find out which is the original and which is the rip? A person(like me) who hasn’t seen liajedi’s Time will get a feeling that your Time is the original one ‘cos it looks better. Reminds me of Avalonstar’s article. I suppose its difficult to make new designs without being ‘inspired’ from something else.
July 30th, 2007 at 12:16 am
The rip-off thing is so ubiquitous these days… Almost every mundane thing you see around you’d be ‘inspired’! From music to movies even to website. Good work, dude!
(Btw, I too liked the design on the left! Looks more organized!!)
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