Blog #3: What is your favourite type of art?

For me, I appreciate all art, but I guess music is what moves me the most. I enjoy visiting a gallery now and again, but after a while one painting or one sculpture just starts to look like the next and the next...  I love literature as well, but I'm not always in the mood for it. Film is fantastic, but there's too much of it. However, if you ever ask me to go out to a pub, theatre, or arena to see a good musician, hear a great drum solo, or watch a professional pick a guitar, I'll never refuse. Watching and listening to good musicians always brings pleasure to me, and it moves me to do other artistic things.

What about you? Please include your Section # and ID in your posting.  Aj. M

Journal Blog 2: Copying a crime?

Here at MUIC and most universities are really tough on plagiarism. And they should be. Not only because copying someone's words and using them as if they are your own is dishonest, but also because people should be challenged and encouraged to produce their own ideas and contributions to the world.

But sometimes there is a grey area as Gladwell describes. The story you might overhear from a friend. The tune a guitar player strummed on the street. The poem on a napkin you found at a table...  are those ideas us for grabs? If you write about a piece of gossip you heard: is it an idea? Or is it "intellectual property?"

The journal blog topic for this week: Is it a crime to use, reproduce, mix, and mash art as your own?

Include your Student ID and Section # in your post. Aj. M