I Need A Name Over Here! (Mosaics)
I'm submitting this mosaic to the Society of American Mosaic Artist's little gig in SF in January. I have a few questions for you all.
One: The "entry guidelines" say that "entries must be original in design." The actual "design" I guess was taken from a book. But the colors and tile placement was of my choosing. Does this count as original? Even if not, I might just chance it that the jurors won't remember seeing such a design in a book somewhere :)
Two: I need a title! I'm TERRIBLE at titles. I'm especially looking over and batting my eyelashes at Yosha and Dave, who have a remarkable ability to string words together. Of course, anyone is more than welcome to suggest a title.
Three: Pray! The only thing I can submit is a color slide of it. I bought a 35mm camera and some slide film and every picture came out bad bad bad. I found a place on the web that will change digital images into slides, so pray to whatever you pray to that I did it correctly and it will come back in time for me to send it out!! It needs to get there by October 1st. This mosaic being accepted would really just make me very happy.
That is all. Start title-ing!
Posted by
geena
on Friday, September 19, 2003 at 01:00 PM
Comments (7)
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Posted by the kiosk on September 19, 2003 02:22 PM
I don't know much about this kind of thing, but I'm afraid you might be DQ'ed on the whole "original in design" issue. I doubt it would refer to something like tile placement, seeing as how *everyone* has to figure that out themselves, right?
And "hoping they won't notice" is also known as plagiarism. Sorry, but I'm pretty sure that's what it would be considered.
Speaking for myself, I don't care so much about the competition, or whose design it is, I just plain love this mosaic! I feel very privileged to be the owner of it and several other works of your art.
Posted by davidh on September 19, 2003 02:46 PM
How about "A Round Peace of Art" -- "peace" instead of "piece", because the larger white sections are somewhat dove-shaped.
Posted by dontask on September 19, 2003 08:42 PM
How about "Spirits on the BART"? It looks like ghosts going through a turnstile to me...
Posted by geena on September 20, 2003 12:07 AM
Apparently I worded that badly. I got the design from what I think is an uncopyrighted book. I'm not stealing someone else's design; they freely gave it to whoever.
But my saying, "I hope they won't notice" sounded kind of... well, bad.
So I don't think it's plaigarism if you're copying something that doesn't require credit.
As for tile placement, I feel that if you presented the same design to 3 different mosaicists, you'd get 3 very very different results. For mosaics, tile placement is what it's all about. Of course you're supposed to figure it out on your own, but that's the art. Tile placement can certainly be copied, and I haven't done that.
Posted by Tom on September 21, 2003 08:56 PM
You could name it "Dave" but that might be a bit predictable...
Posted by C on September 22, 2003 10:37 AM
Avoiding the copyright minefield, why don't you call it "Happy Wedding, Caryn and Kevin"? "Marriage blessing"? Something more about the occasion that insipred it than the design itself.
Posted by geena on September 24, 2003 01:35 PM
I decided to name it "Spirits In The Turnstyle." And the entry form went in today!!
I'll know after November 10th if it has been accepted.
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