Listen "Episode #78: Good Enough to Steal?"
Episode Synopsis
SHOW THEME
James and Catherine dip their toes into hope before tackling plagiarism vs appropriation in pop-art
SHOW NOTES
00:30 - Hope and bikes on the ceiling
02:30 - Ghosted by a chihuahua
04:15 - It's gonna take years!
05:00 - Normal American hoarder?
07:00 - No boxes from Temu!
08:40 - James debunks a dog harness
10:20 - Instagram algorithm whiners
12:45 - More whining about Lichtenstein 'It's called stealing': new allegations of plagiarism against Roy Lichtenstein
13:54 - Seeing the "Ben-Day" dots
15:00 - Disposable illustration, pop-art
16:00 - "It's called stealing", said Hy Eisman, but James has a different take!
18:00 - Appropriation vs plagiarism
20:29 - Seeing "BLAM"!
21:25 - American Art Industrial Complex squashes comic collage
23:18 - Isn't art disposable?
26:15 - Chinese website snatched James' image and used it for a logo!
29:21 - "WHAAM! BLAM! Roy Lichtenstein And The Art Of Appropriation" documentary
31:10 - AI similarities?
32:21 - Intellectually interesting, but not analogous
33:27 - Lichtenstein IS pop-art, Warhol isn't
34:16 - Not a transformative soup can, but good enough to steal!
35:24 - "Come play with us forever"
James and Catherine dip their toes into hope before tackling plagiarism vs appropriation in pop-art
SHOW NOTES
00:30 - Hope and bikes on the ceiling
02:30 - Ghosted by a chihuahua
04:15 - It's gonna take years!
05:00 - Normal American hoarder?
07:00 - No boxes from Temu!
08:40 - James debunks a dog harness
10:20 - Instagram algorithm whiners
12:45 - More whining about Lichtenstein 'It's called stealing': new allegations of plagiarism against Roy Lichtenstein
13:54 - Seeing the "Ben-Day" dots
15:00 - Disposable illustration, pop-art
16:00 - "It's called stealing", said Hy Eisman, but James has a different take!
18:00 - Appropriation vs plagiarism
20:29 - Seeing "BLAM"!
21:25 - American Art Industrial Complex squashes comic collage
23:18 - Isn't art disposable?
26:15 - Chinese website snatched James' image and used it for a logo!
29:21 - "WHAAM! BLAM! Roy Lichtenstein And The Art Of Appropriation" documentary
31:10 - AI similarities?
32:21 - Intellectually interesting, but not analogous
33:27 - Lichtenstein IS pop-art, Warhol isn't
34:16 - Not a transformative soup can, but good enough to steal!
35:24 - "Come play with us forever"
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