Homework 5

•      I think something is worth stealing when it inspires me.  It isn’t fair to take someone’s work completely without giving it a new meaning or changing it enough so it should inspire you enough to give it a new meaning.
• ·         I think this text relates to postmodernism because it addresses many modern examples.  But it also has quotes and examples from people before then so I think it applies to every era.
• ·         When we first learned about it in class it was kind of depressing.  But I think the author of Steal Like An Artist really puts it into a good perspective and makes is more freeing. 
• ·         I think creative hoarding is taking ideas but not doing anything with them.  I think collecting is taking things that inspire you and putting them all together to hopefully create something of your own.
• ·         He means that art is too big of a concept to grasp.  We should focus on individual artists because they’re all different and there’s no way to understand all art. 
• ·         Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe wrote a book about two kids wanting to be artists.  These friends moved to New York to pursue this dream and became artists by pretending to be artists.  They went to a park and dressed up as artists.  This made people think they were actually artists.  It did work for them because an old woman thought they were artists but her husband didn’t.
• ·         Plagiarism is copying something word for word, exactly how it is.  It is trying to pass someone else’s work as your own.  Practice is copying people so that you learn how they thought and seeing like them.
• ·         Imitation is copying someone.  Emulation is when you copy someone but turn it into your own thing.

Because I am a writer, I don’t know very many artists at all so I chose an author as my creative thinker hero. It was really hard for me to choose just one.  But the author I chose is F. Scott Fitzgerald.  I love his work.  It’s hard for me to find who inspired him, but I think his daughter and wife really inspired him because he wrote very nice letters to them and seemed to influence his writing.  But what inspired him the most wasn’t people, it was the culture.  He wrote a lot about the roaring 20’s and social issues going on in that era.

My major is communications, concentrating in journalism.  I love to write.  With creative writing, Kleon’s thoughts are very true.  Most ideas have been done and it’s hard to find a book with a very original, never been done before plot.  As far as journalism, the subjects are new because we write about current events.  But a lot of news sources report the same events so it isn’t original.  When it comes to writing, we’ve all been taught by many different people and teachers so how we write and our writing style is just a combination of all of them.