I'm struggling with picspam. It's gotten excessively Cyrillic and less interesting and I'll admit my enthusiasm for the entire endeavor has taken a punch to the groin. But I'll try.
I was amused that the article seems to suggest that the iPod icons were themselves a form of "plagiarism" -- I'd hope an academic would have a slightly firmer grasp of intellectual property...if not laws, at least concepts. She does seem to understand that co-opting the design, even in mockery and frivolity, ends up creating "viral marketing" independent of Apple's own. And yeah, I saw a few familiar "faces" on those pieces.
(Oh, yeah, I was very impressed with the near-cohesiveness of the resultant lyrics. If I could operate Garageband better than a brain-damaged chimp, I'd have to give it a shot.)
I'd have figured #4 -- if not #6 -- would be the gimme of the bunch; it's easily the most popular and widely-known of the fifteen. It's a matter of time before someone (yes, a certain someone) gets #8 and a different someone #4 unless someone beats her to it. Most of the others are relatively easy, a few leaning toward obscure but not totally so -- #2 I wouldn't have a shot of recognizing because before I looked them up I had no idea that those were the lyrics. (Kate getting #13 surprises me not, of course.) I've got an icon based on #3, though. (This is not it.) Interestingly, only one group repeats.
Feel free to post a few after, say, daethkow has a crack at it. He's got a good shot at a few, I'd say.
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Date: 2008-05-25 06:21 pm (UTC)I was amused that the article seems to suggest that the iPod icons were themselves a form of "plagiarism" -- I'd hope an academic would have a slightly firmer grasp of intellectual property...if not laws, at least concepts. She does seem to understand that co-opting the design, even in mockery and frivolity, ends up creating "viral marketing" independent of Apple's own. And yeah, I saw a few familiar "faces" on those pieces.
(Oh, yeah, I was very impressed with the near-cohesiveness of the resultant lyrics. If I could operate Garageband better than a brain-damaged chimp, I'd have to give it a shot.)
I'd have figured #4 -- if not #6 -- would be the gimme of the bunch; it's easily the most popular and widely-known of the fifteen. It's a matter of time before someone (yes, a certain someone) gets #8 and a different someone #4 unless someone beats her to it. Most of the others are relatively easy, a few leaning toward obscure but not totally so -- #2 I wouldn't have a shot of recognizing because before I looked them up I had no idea that those were the lyrics. (Kate getting #13 surprises me not, of course.) I've got an icon based on #3, though. (This is not it.) Interestingly, only one group repeats.
Feel free to post a few after, say,