tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21373052.post8851963346834057384..comments2023-11-02T06:31:36.840-07:00Comments on The Sandwich Machine: Authorship in Collaborative ArtWalrushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05608261154284316277noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21373052.post-91033199905795599912007-10-20T13:25:00.000-07:002007-10-20T13:25:00.000-07:00hmmmm I am a bit suprised your gf let you post on ...hmmmm I am a bit suprised your gf let you post on here SR, I thought Walrus was the lone ranger keeping the machine running. Keep up the good work Walrus, to SR that is a one four niner and I'm out.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21373052.post-49481441679792499882007-10-18T14:15:00.000-07:002007-10-18T14:15:00.000-07:00Walrus certainly raises some interesting points he...Walrus certainly raises some interesting points here--there's also the question of how much Samuel Beckett contributed to James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake. The collaboration between Walrus and me bears little resemblance to the stuff that we generate independently (W has a great ear for natural speech patterns and comes at things in a way that is basically perpendicular to my own in a way that makes perfect sense as soon as I hear it, but never would have occurred to me; I think that what I bring is a kind of crystallization, or underlying order, to things). In other instances, offhanded comments made by people in workshop groups in writing classes have often taken things in new directions, and I've even found that things show up that were never intentional. I used to imagine that a great work of art sat perfected in the mind of the artist, who then painstakingly transported that work into the real world. Now, it seems more like those seventies game shows where people go into the whirling money booth and try and grab what they can. You can't really look to much at the denominations, or even what each bit is, and you're bound to look silly regardless of your process. It's all bricolage (to throw in a more pedigreed analogy), and influence isn't avoidable, or even just a taint to be minimized, but is probably really the substance of creative work.Sous Raturehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00338066541296609949noreply@blogger.com