Post #81910 by Bwana Tiki on Sat, Mar 20, 2004 12:26 PM

first off I need to qoute ministry too, "bop m bop m bopbop" okay so it an old quote, but they said it not me...
Ben Just out of curiousity where you using shag images in this bar or simply a similar style? after all shag is a bit derivitive his own self. his style is a retro style that echo those who came before him, Most observers should not have a hard time spotting his influences which are at times rather blatent both in subject and style of illistration. mind you I don't look on this as a bad thing at all it is a tradition that has a history as long as art itself. and I don't think it was a bad thing to contact him about a project that you felt my infringe on his... well infringe on... ah, I don't have enough background to finish that sentence but I think ya get the point. turns out this is a legit topic, and I thought it was about being nice. influence is propper in art if you ask me and not the same as wholesale lifting of an image, like the underpants w/ BOT tikis on them. by the way, where did those BOT underpants tikis come from in the first place? were they purchased for BOT? collected and then cleared? were they origanal works produced for BOT? expired copyrights? As anyone who has read my recent postings knows, this kind of stuff is a hot topic for me and I have to stop myself from going off on a rant... opps, guess its close to that time about noe huh?

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