Not to long ago Thomas and I were chatting toward the end of the day, this included the normal rantings about the web, Lost, Macintosh, social media, viral videos and the like. We eventually got to a recent topic in the art community surrounding Shepard Fairey and fair use. He created an illustration of Barak Obama, and the Associated Press sued him, because Fairey used a photo from the AP as the basis of the portrait.
Now discussing this issue Thomas started to elaborate on his endeavors into the “nerdkore” art style. This movement is focused on using tech and computer influences in the art itself. This can range from an oil painting of Mario or a mixed media computer keyboard that has been smashed to bits. Many of Thomas’ efforts seemed to beg a similar fair use question Fairey had encountered since often ideas were sampled in the new piece.
One thought lead to another, homage, new administration, annoying computers, some sketching and fooling in Photoshop around – suddenly it’s art collaboration time!
Paragraph IV: A New Hope
Because the “HOPE” poster was on the mind of everyone and Thomas had just had yet another as he calls them “Vista Moments” time to bust another nerdkore piece this time Fairey style.
Like Fairey’s OBEY campaign, we figure REBOOT is what we Windows users dutiful do. We are subservient to the system, unable to change as our friendly sweater clad overlord makes a few more bucks.
Rebooting is command of what we must do, but packaged a bit better as you see it is the Aloe Vera of the computer world. Rub a little on, all better now.
User: “My system is doing X” (where X is something not appropriate)
IT/Support/Computer Person: Did you try a reboot?
Nothing wrong with that, it is life. You just need a little computer Aloe. Maybe they have one for other arenas, call the auto mechanic.
User: “My car won’t work, it’s doing X”
Mechanic: “Did you try to turn it off and on?”
or
Mechanic: “Did you take the gas in and out?”
or
Mechanic: “Did you remove the engine and put it back in?”
The equivalent of the “reboot” advice really doesn’t work offline but for some reason it does online.
We put up with a lot – 10 minute start-ups, grey screen, swirling circle, 5 minutes gone yet again! Blue screen of death! We must obey, we dutifully reboot,
Thomas, and now Joe, just had another Vista moment. We laugh a bit. We can’t stick it to the “man” but now we do have a nice satirical picture of Bill looking friendly and smiling in his sweater. He comforts us with a helpful hint (or is it an order?): REBOOT.
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