One Art

One Art
At 0156 PM 1/2/2005, Tommy DOG replied: "I do love Ken's stuff and infact I often am careful not to step on his artistic toes when I make choices as to what I will use when I build something. When I am looking at solutions to instruments and I pick up something like an old hockey stick my girlfriend will tell me it's too close to Ken's stuff."
When I read this several days ago it jarred me, like I'd stubbed my toe. Well in all honesty it ain't the first time I've stumbled over this bit o' ethics. For several years I worked in jewelry fabrication and manufacturing, we made an original design item in sterling and gold for a large mailorder concern, demand was steady for a while... then nothing. They never took it out of the catalog. Come to find out that this is common. By logical extension control of our original works is "an original work," of fiction, unless there are deep pockets involved to enforce control. On the flipside, this would I assume grant birthright access to any and all contributions from others to our edification and fair use.
I do find that Some peoples toes go on, in the extreme these really grouchy folks have toes that approach non-locality tripping on them is easy. This is where being able to dance would come in handy (or would that be footy?) grass hoppa.
"There is one art, no more, no less: to do all things with artlessness."
-Piet Hein, poet and scientist (1905-1996)
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series, "Essay XII, Art"
"Good artists copy. Great artists Steal."
– Picasso
These "Great Artists" to which I feel to emulate, seem to take input from their environment (including other people, artists and the so called, great uninspired) make it theirs, own it, and express from there.
I suppose that should one make it through the unlimited artistic experience and the chips have fallen where they may then comes the option of naming the work and giving credit where credit is due and far down the list... cleaning up the mess.
"I wouldn't deny *that* experience to the One Mind."
- Thaddeus Golas (The Lazy Man's Guide to Enlightenment)
If you had everything where would you put it?
Easy Answer?
Right where it is... no transportation required.
"If everything is connected to everything else, then everyone is ultimately responsible for everything. We can blame nothing on anyone else. The more we comprehend our mutual interdependence, the more we fathom the implications of our most trivial acts. We find ourselves within a luminous organism of sacred responsibility."
- Laurence Kushner in Invisible Lines of Connection
At some level we creatures are one.
When an idea is born in one mind it is available to the one mind.
Great minds think alike.
Whatever an individual or subset of the one is inspired to do effects and is the effect of the whole in simultaneous harmony with that so we as part of the one are responsible for everyone and their expression and they for ours.
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
When I am leading the "Drumming Peace" drumcircle, I often gaze on Kanapaha Veteran's Park and see folks moving to the beat.
This is more gratifying than any applause I've received.
Applause can be polite, groovin' is proven.

"Simplicity is the essence of the great,
the true, and the beautiful in art."
- George Sand (French author Mme. Amandine Aurore Lucile Dudevant)
"The crux of the biscuit is: If it entertains you, fine. Enjoy it. If it doesn't, then blow it out your ass. I do it to amuse myself. If I like it, I release it. If somebody else likes it, that's a bonus."
- Frank Zappa (interview with Playboy magazine on May 2, 1993)

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