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- IvenomI, on 01/17/2009, -10/+378I've got some original, yet, similar advice for you:
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows, also Digg submissions. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul, or that will make Digg front page. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic and earn you many Diggs. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery, because we can track it anyhow—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to. - brycew, on 01/17/2009, -4/+163I might add:
I've got some original, yet, similar advice for you:
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows, also Digg submissions. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul, or that will make Digg front page. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic and earn you many Diggs. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery, because we can track it anyhow—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to. - Collecto, on 01/17/2009, -5/+133If you don't mind, I may add something myself on the matter.
I've got some original, yet, similar advice for you:
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows, also Digg submissions. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul, or that will make Digg front page. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic and earn you many Diggs. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery, because we can track it anyhow—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to. - temujin2012, on 01/17/2009, -3/+124I've been thinking a while, and came up with some insight on the issue.
I've got some original, yet, similar advice for you:
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows, also Digg submissions. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul, or that will make Digg front page. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic and earn you many Diggs. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery, because we can track it anyhow—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to. - jimmythesquid, on 01/17/2009, -4/+100You know what, I thought I'd write an epic about this:
If you don't mind, I may add something myself on the matter.
I've got some original, yet, similar advice for you:
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows, also Digg submissions. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul, or that will make Digg front page. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic and earn you many Diggs. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery, because we can track it anyhow—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to.
I've been thinking a while, and came up with some insight on the issue.
I've got some original, yet, similar advice for you:
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows, also Digg submissions. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul, or that will make Digg front page. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic and earn you many Diggs. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery, because we can track it anyhow—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to.
The birth of a meme!
Hey, I stole this from some random douchebag on digg:
I've got some original, yet, similar advice for you:
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows, also Digg submissions. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul, or that will make Digg front page. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic and earn you many Diggs. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery, because we can track it anyhow—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to.
If I may add some of my thoughts to this conversation:
I've got some original, yet, similar advice for you:
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows, also Digg submissions. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul, or that will make Digg front page. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic and earn you many Diggs. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery, because this is a story all about how my life got flipped-turned upside down, and I liked to take a minute Just sit right there, I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air.
Taking it too far so you don't have to. - gmiley, on 01/17/2009, -3/+90If I may add some of my thoughts to this conversation:
I've got some original, yet, similar advice for you:
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows, also Digg submissions. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul, or that will make Digg front page. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic and earn you many Diggs. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery, because this is a story all about how my life got flipped-turned upside down, and I liked to take a minute Just sit right there, I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel Air. - acegi, on 01/17/2009, -8/+85Jean-luc Pi....
oh - oda1, on 01/17/2009, -7/+73Okay, look guys. Ask not what other peoples' work can do for you, but what you can do for other peoples' work.
- jordantneff, on 01/17/2009, -8/+70Hey, I stole this from some random douchebag on digg:
I've got some original, yet, similar advice for you:
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows, also Digg submissions. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul, or that will make Digg front page. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic and earn you many Diggs. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery, because we can track it anyhow—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to. - oda1, on 01/17/2009, -3/+58wait a minute...
- rstarr, on 01/17/2009, -5/+57Well played.
- IvenomI, on 01/17/2009, -1/+51Oh lord, look what I've done.
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...................................,<`.._|_,-&``................`\.............. - inactive, on 01/17/2009, -2/+40'Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere...'
Sounds like most of the power-users. - bontzmachine, on 01/16/2009, -4/+42.... waiting for Sundance to file an injunction over use of his intellectual property....
Brilliant though. - brandnewx, on 01/17/2009, -11/+45Businessmen "Steal."
Designers "Get Inspired."
Programmers "Learn."
Film Directors "Borrow."
Writers "Plagiarize."
Many verbs. Same contextual meaning. - randyzaia, on 01/17/2009, -1/+29Picasso
- itsabrandnewday, on 01/17/2009, -16/+42hell yes with the Godard quote. IMHO he was the most innovative auteur in film history.
- LemonChicken, on 01/17/2009, -2/+28"Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not as important as how we have lived."
Jean-Luc PICARD - dellegazze, on 01/17/2009, -9/+30hey guys! look what I made:
http://i42.tinypic.com/2mhhtap.jpg - inactive, on 01/17/2009, -1/+21I blame the 'auteur' usage.
- inactive, on 01/17/2009, -0/+19they prefer.. power-artists
- facespaz, on 01/17/2009, -3/+21"Okay, look guys. Ask not what other peoples' work can do for you, but what you can do for other peoples' work."
- FACESPAZ Copyright 2009 - brandnewx, on 01/17/2009, -4/+22Ideas are our to steal. That is why patent offices won't accept ideas as patents.
Take a look at Web 2.0 designs. Do you think thousands of designers spontaneously came up with that similar design? Absolutely not. They get inspirations from many things.
And songs too: That's why we can put them under a handful genres.
And movies too: The movie effects and the stuns are all the same.
And digg comments: "Run Crysis?", the pedo bear, etc. - bryson430, on 01/17/2009, -12/+29Is this a weird way of justifying what you do, Mr Poweruser? ;)
- Beatmiser, on 01/17/2009, -7/+21I always loved Jarmusch's Ghost Dog Way of the Samurai until I saw the French Film 'Le Samourai'.
In retrospect, this quote from him makes perfect sense. - MrJagil, on 01/17/2009, -0/+14I had nothing to do with the following, but it spoke directly to my soul:
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows, also Digg submissions. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul, or that will make Digg front page. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic and earn you many Diggs. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery, because we can track it anyhow—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to. - anaclagon, on 01/17/2009, -1/+14You could at least be discriminate in your choices.
- vp0ng, on 01/17/2009, -0/+13people still use limewire?
- inactive, on 01/17/2009, -0/+12That would make a great laptop sticker.
- barryiggins, on 01/17/2009, -3/+15Dead Man owns
- OrangeTide, on 01/17/2009, -0/+11if that is what "speaks to your soul", then I pity you.
- inactive, on 01/17/2009, -0/+10Beautifully illustrates the point, doesn't it?
- latinjones, on 01/17/2009, -0/+10I think what he was trying to say was, "Please don't remake The Karate Kid!".
- kerouac906, on 01/17/2009, -0/+10Film Directors "Pay Homage"
- JFitzpatrick, on 01/17/2009, -0/+10@DeathStrawberry: "Unfortunately, despite what you may have heard, there is no effective way to protect an idea through intellectual property law. Copyright protects expression and patent law protects inventions, and neither protect ideas. In both cases the idea is the first critical step, but without some identifiable embodiment of the idea there can be no intellectual property protection. That does not mean that you should give up when you only have an idea, but it does mean that you ought to proceed to flush out your idea to the point where it is concrete enough to be more than what the law would call a “mere idea.” The moral of the story is that ideas alone cannot be protected, so you need to think in terms of invention."
http://www.ipwatchdog.com/inventing/patent-ideas/ - inactive, on 01/17/2009, -0/+9nothing is something.
- savmac, on 01/17/2009, -1/+10Jean-Luc Picard did not say that.
- Rhydeble, on 01/17/2009, -0/+9you could, for instance, copyright it.
- pushforpeace, on 01/17/2009, -0/+8"It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to."
Yes. - DredPir8Robrts, on 01/17/2009, -1/+9Duuuuuuuude.... my hands are HUGE! They can touch anything but themselves... woahhhhhhhhh hoooooo woooooo...
- antlerboy, on 01/17/2009, -0/+8that is only half of ghost dog. The other half is taken from a japanese 60's yakuza film called branded to kill, which, is an beautiful movie.
- subsocial, on 01/17/2009, -0/+7http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=MONA+L ...
- martinvives, on 01/17/2009, -2/+9I've got some original, yet, similar advice for you:
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows, also Digg submissions. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul, or that will make Digg front page. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic and earn you many Diggs. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery, because we can track it anyhow—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to. - H4n90fThur5D4y5, on 01/17/2009, -1/+8“It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to."
-Me. Not Jean-Luc Godard. - breadfred, on 01/17/2009, -1/+8I was going to say that this is mrBabyMan's life story. Then I noticed someone else already mentioned something about power users in one of the above replies.
Then I thought to my self 'nothing is original' and submitted this comment anyway. - rugabug, on 01/17/2009, -1/+8So is Apple. Don't forget Apple's source for the Mac: Xerox Alto.
- oblivian92, on 01/17/2009, -0/+7I thought about this idea for a long time and I've got some original, yet, similar advice for you:
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows, also Digg submissions. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul, or that will make Digg front page. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic and earn you many Diggs. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery, because we can track it anyhow—celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from—it’s where you take them to. - brandnewx, on 01/17/2009, -0/+7IP is not idea. If you think Microsoft Windows and Firefox are pure ideas, there's something wrong with the way you think.
- latinjones, on 01/17/2009, -0/+7Word! So does the soundtrack.
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