“Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery-celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Goddard said: ”It’s not where you take things from- it’s where you take them to.”

It was originally written by Jim Jarmusch. I’m hoping that this whole topic can filter into my upcoming thesis which will focus on plagiarism and appropriation (cross fingers).

I was lucky enough to have my Aurora Film Festival identity featured on the Brand New Classroom site this morning. It has been great to see what people outside of the classroom think of my work as well as how they perceive it.

Brand New Classroom Feature

This site was a gave me some good experience into the way that HTML and CSS work towards styling websites. Because the way that I was tough (with Photoshop slices galore) is horribly out of date. So it was good to finally be doing things the right way.

Take  a look at it and let me know what you think (comments are working on the blog now).

The rest of the website can be viewed HERE

I hope to stay on top of both my website and my blog in the future, so stay tuned.