Molotov Man Response
When I first began reading this article I thought it was only about rebels fighting a cause, mainly because of the powerful image that’s displayed on the first page, which happens to be the image in question in this article. After a few sentences I quickly realized that this was relatable to what we’re doing right now in class with our found footage assignment and re-appropriation. This is a tough subject because it brings a lot of different emotions from the artists themselves. Most of the time artists feel like they are being stolen from and rightly so. Basically it really comes down to ethics, using artists pre existing works is a cool thing and I do believe you should have permission form the original artist to be able to use it but only if you are profiting from the use of that particular “borrowed” piece.
It's crazy how many people or groups ended up using this same Molotov Man image that Joy used and for so many different reasons, many having nothing to do with the original context. It really shows the power of an image and the way that image is presented can have a direct effect on the viewer. This says a lot about this image in particular and to me can be seen as only good publicity for the original photographer because the image is being spread to more and more people only giving the artist more coverage and publicity.
When I used to hear rap music that’s made from using samples/loops from preexisting hits and try to pass themselves off as musical geniuses used to really get to me. The songs are mostly made of samples of popular songs throughout our history have always questioned and doubted the talent it took for these people to take a hook or line from an already established masterpiece of a song already and try to make it there own. Nowadays I have grown to like these types of songs because some of these hip-hop artists have taken sampling to all new levels making it truly genuine and unique. I believe it does take skill to take something that means one thing in and make it into something completely different and it helps to using image or sounded to people now that is popular because it subliminally gives them a leg up.
I really excited about the Found Footage Assignment and have been searching the Internet high and low for public domain footage to use. It’s going to be a lot of fun to take something that can be totally dated but a part of pop culture or history and make it into something new and fresh. What’s truly exciting is there are so many options for these types of films; all that limits the film is the filmmaker’s creativity and imagination.
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