Group Blog Post #4; Uncreative Writing and Commentary
During Friday's class our group created an original work of
uncreative writing via popular YouTube videos. We were instructed to pick out
lines or words that stood out to us as important. From this our group created
this piece of Uncreative Writing. One thing our writing shows is a strong sense
of trends on the internet. Trends are continuously changing, we see current
trends through the topics of the video clips we viewed. The subjects who are at the focus of these
clips include Bob Marley, Gordon Ramsay, Billy Eichner, Nicki Minaj, Emma Stone
and Ryan Gosling. Each of these popular
icons represent a certain aspect of culture and each are authors of many
different products including their interview responses. If we transcsribe the dialogue into a poem, the
result is a product which should be credited to each original source as well as
we the interpreters.
The material that we read and created were composed of
multiple persons thoughts and ideas. As Kenneth Goldsmith noticed, In
today`s digital society everything is shared, replicated and sampled. Citations are necessary if you are
referencing someone’s thoughts or research and then putting their findings into
words of your own. This has taken the general thought of authorship as to who
originally came up with a thought or idea and including them into new
authorship. Although no intellectual property is lost, it is merely a collaboration
of two authors thoughts and creations, one piggybacking off another`s viewpoint
and twisting it around making it their own. Therefore, uncreative writing is a
gathering of someone else`s ideas and then creating a new piece of work based
on all of the information and inputs you have gathered on the subject. Being
able to write or think uncreatively could lead to a huge gain of intellect in
the fact that you can use very credible sources to cite your thoughts or ideas
but also including the original author will make you look all the more
credible, and that being what uncreative writing entails.
An example of a piece that challenges the concept of ownership is Stephanie Barber's Night Moves. In this conceptual novel, Barber uses text from the YouTube comment section on Bob Segar’s Night Moves. Anyone who has ever interacted or read a YouTube comment section knows that it is a world of many views and values. Usually, the thoughts shared in these comments are short and quick and not intended to become a published novel. Barber brings attention to the validity of the comment section as a source of information. The comments belong to each YouTube account owner who posts, but now they are also a part of Barber’s creation. The sharing of information can create incredible results and it’s always important to give credit where it’s due.
By: Mary-Lynn, Connor and Robbie
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