Journal of the Collective Me

Saw this on glasstire's twitter - it collects tweets containing the word 'me' - a simple idea but it gets pretty rich if you delve into it for a while...

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Shepard Fairey, "The AP, Obama, & Referencing"

Brian Sherwin, "Response to Shepard Fairey"

Without a clear empirical way to locate the line between legitimate and illegitimate appropriation, I say we have to err on the side of anarchy in order to protect freedom. Let Fairey make his terrible art and let the zombies keep snapping it up - I don't care if he gets rich. His disingenuousness and the vacuity of his artworks betray a deep spiritual illness - he is already punished. Let's not create laws that could be used to restrict our artistic freedom just to slap an annoying mosquito.

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