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So I came a crossed this artist Paul McLean in the RHIZOME site. I was interested in the way he went about generating his art, or at least in this case. Not unlike or own class the first thing he did was do a search on the web and steal a image to start his process of making his art. I an not sure if this is the norm, it just struck me as to how normal it seams to be that people just take someone else’s image as a starting place for there own work. I guess I have to get with the times on that one. Maybe in the old days it was just as easy to start with a new image as it was copy. But with this digital age and the ability to cut, copy and paste at the stroke of a key, combined with the availability of so many images on the web. I guess it is not hard to understand how we became so balsa about stealing others work. Or is it like so many other things on the web it’s more about sharing. And I think that may not be      

a bad thing.