Comments on: Enemies of the Muse http://blog.ninapaley.com/2007/07/16/enemies-of-the-muse/ Formerly America's Best-Loved Unknown Cartoonist, now independently animating a feature film, "Sita Sings the Blues." Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:58:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.2 By: sol http://blog.ninapaley.com/2007/07/16/enemies-of-the-muse/#comment-841 sol Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:53:15 +0000 http://blog.ninapaley.com/2007/07/16/enemies-of-the-muse/#comment-841 Hi Nina! I've discovered your work week ago and since then i've seen almost all the things you have in the web (i'm really fan of sitayama!!!) i'm beginning now with flash, and i notice how difficult is to do what you are doing, not only the tehnical work, also the idea is really good!! (the website is of my blog, but i'm not doing a very continius work on it...flash has absorbe all my time...:-)) you are right! we kill our muse. Let her living!!! (I feel completely identified with the words you have writen...) Hi Nina! I’ve discovered your work week ago and since then i’ve seen almost all the things you have in the web (i’m really fan of sitayama!!!) i’m beginning now with flash, and i notice how difficult is to do what you are doing, not only the tehnical work, also the idea is really good!!

(the website is of my blog, but i’m not doing a very continius work on it…flash has absorbe all my time…:-))

you are right! we kill our muse. Let her living!!! (I feel completely identified with the words you have writen…)

]]> By: Karla Singh http://blog.ninapaley.com/2007/07/16/enemies-of-the-muse/#comment-853 Karla Singh Tue, 17 Jul 2007 18:50:54 +0000 http://blog.ninapaley.com/2007/07/16/enemies-of-the-muse/#comment-853 Hey Nina, Love that you're posting in your blog more often! I'm a big fan of your writing and your art. Very much looking forward to the Sita feature. I had to be careful when I was watching the Chapters you have posted, because my husband was reading the Ramayana and he would have been mad if he walked in and had the ending RUINED for him. Hahaha. Just wanted to say I'm a big fan. Thanks for everything! -Karla Hey Nina,
Love that you’re posting in your blog more often! I’m a big fan of your writing and your art.
Very much looking forward to the Sita feature. I had to be careful when I was watching the Chapters you have posted, because my husband was reading the Ramayana and he would have been mad if he walked in and had the ending RUINED for him. Hahaha.
Just wanted to say I’m a big fan. Thanks for everything!
-Karla

]]> By: ravi swami http://blog.ninapaley.com/2007/07/16/enemies-of-the-muse/#comment-862 ravi swami Thu, 19 Jul 2007 10:05:33 +0000 http://blog.ninapaley.com/2007/07/16/enemies-of-the-muse/#comment-862 Here's my tuppence worth : a while back I made a short using images culled from various sources - my reservations were overcome by the appeal of the idea, well, the idea of plundering existing non-copyright, public domain imagery in the spirit of collage and "objet trouve" - after all, as far as I know, no one pursued Terry Gilliam for copyright infringment when he made those Monty Python cartoons ages ago... It's possible to argue that what you create from these images itself constitutes a new artwork, which also falls within the very same rights of the artist issues which form the basis of copyright law....after a certain point trying to settle usage fees for each and every image used becomes pointless and expensive. Here’s my tuppence worth : a while back I made a short using images culled from various sources - my reservations were overcome by the appeal of the idea, well, the idea of plundering existing non-copyright, public domain imagery in the spirit of collage and “objet trouve” - after all, as far as I know, no one pursued Terry Gilliam for copyright infringment when he made those Monty Python cartoons ages ago…

It’s possible to argue that what you create from these images itself constitutes a new artwork, which also falls within the very same rights of the artist issues which form the basis of copyright law….after a certain point trying to settle usage fees for each and every image used becomes pointless and expensive.

]]> By: john http://blog.ninapaley.com/2007/07/16/enemies-of-the-muse/#comment-868 john Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:57:48 +0000 http://blog.ninapaley.com/2007/07/16/enemies-of-the-muse/#comment-868 It is scary, and it's often hard to tell when you're inventing something or remembering it! You draw a cartoon and look at it. The next day you look at it again. It now seems familiar, somehow. Are you just remembering having looked at it before? I was once accused of plagiarism, and it was very scary. It was clearly a false accusation, but the accuser was the CEO of a TV network! Not from one of his shows, but a novel he had written. I had no idea that he had ever written any novel, let alone the one he accused me of "borrowing". He made a fuss, but, happily, it eventually died down. I denied, truly, that I'd ever seen his novel, but how do you prove a negative? It is scary, and it’s often hard to tell when you’re inventing something or remembering it! You draw a cartoon and look at it. The next day you look at it again. It now seems familiar, somehow. Are you just remembering having looked at it before?

I was once accused of plagiarism, and it was very scary. It was clearly a false accusation, but the accuser was the CEO of a TV network! Not from one of his shows, but a novel he had written. I had no idea that he had ever written any novel, let alone the one he accused me of “borrowing”. He made a fuss, but, happily, it eventually died down. I denied, truly, that I’d ever seen his novel, but how do you prove a negative?

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