Ramblings on plagiarism, blogs, censorship, Internet... and sadness caused by a mere copy and paste

The post below is black reminding Brazilian dictatorship times when newspapers published black squares representing articles that were censured.

Since I discovered that not one, not two but maybe all the posts of this blog were copied and pasted at another blog, at blogspot, that uses the same template and colors of this blog I have this strange feeling that I was censured.


It is funny that it makes no difference if the posts are published at another place because their meaning, their souls are twisted. Copying and pasting is something that was always done and those who were students before the Internet, like me, copied from books, encyclopedias, magazines, newspapers some material and transformed it or used it to back some of their thoughts.


Of course plagiarism always existed but it is not the case here. What I am trying to explain is that even thou the posts are there the ambient created in a page like blogs aggregates meaning to the parts. Each post has a relation with others and the badges the awards, the blog list, everything at the page gives sense to each post. I'm sure you can hear the voice of the blogger when you are visiting a blog. 


It's a great phenomenon what is happening and I believe that in the future some changes will be done that will put this voice in a higher tone. Posts are supposed not to be long so the relationship between them are stronger. 


Still, I'm feeling robbed and I confess that for the moment I lost the energy to keep going. What I try to do here at this Hella Heaven is empowering and saying a yes to humanity. Whenever I hear someone saying things like "the more I know about human beings the more I like my dog" I feel sad. Losing faith in ourselves is the worse that can happen. 


So I do my best to show what many people created of good, beautiful, genius and how many people are fighting for a better understanding of human condition and a better world. This is at the back of my mind at every post. Even those who talk about hideous things. For the moment, I will take a break. 


I would also like to explain that all I do here depend on other people's work, especially the images. I have some materials that are mine but 90% of this blog is the pleasure of sharing what I learned and discovering what people are doing, or did. I always put the credit and only those images that after been copied many times lost the owner and it is no more possible to know who they are and some few that the owner doesn't care being the author.


I try to show people's work and I know that it is the way I see them that is here but I try to give the word to the creator, so... I copy and paste their testimonies after my two cents. In a few posts I only show the work of the artist with the links and it seems there is no merit in that. 


However I would like to remember that it took me a lot of study to know when I'm in front of something that is really good and one of the things people tell me when they talk about my blog is that they like the work or these artists. It is not easy to search and find good images thus... the coping. Those who don't know how to analyse in seconds what is good or not need blogs like this one. 


But this is not the reason why I was doing it - a creation of a database of images - and if someone is using it this way I will not continue. That is it. I hope I made myself clear and for the moment take good care! The image is from the Brazilian artist Antonio Manuel, that in 1973 exposed this newspaper for 24 hours, the period of time a newspaper lasted, in an exhibition. We were under dictatorship and Antonio Manuel did a great work. What 


I would like to ask from those who are giving us a free space like blogspot.com or wordpress.com is to take blogger's work seriously because stealing from bloggers is happening to many people. It is quite discouraging. I wonder why it is so hard to some people to attribute what they are publishing to the person who did it. I have no idea. All I is that I saw many bloggers feeling the same I am experiencing.

The masterpiece cards - Art Blog by Bob

Bob at Art Blog by Bob, an excellent blog about Arts, just wrote about "The Masterpiece Cards" a collection of 250 cards of artists from Renascence to 1960. There is only one example of a card at the site and it was at Bob's site that I became aware of the back side of one of these cards showing the historical approach and some aesthetic considerations. It's good to have the paper at your hand and you can browse your eyes at the picture they have gathered according to "art review of each by scores of renowned art historians". Reading the list of pieces they have chosen from each artist don't causes many impression but as it's a collection of masterpieces paintings such as Vélasquez, Las Meninas ; Munch, The scream; Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère & Olympia; da Vinci, The Last Supper & The Mona Lisa; Dalí, The Persistence of Memory; van Gogh, Bedroom at Arles, The Starry Night & The Night Café are inevitable. This is a good start to make people familiar with the masterpieces and make people wanting to know more about some artists they will find more interesting. If you think of Leonardo da Vinci and only consider one of his paintings you will have one da Vinci that will change after the apreciation of some of his works. I believe it can be considered as another tool for those who are art lovers but books are valuable source and the Web can help every individual creating its own master-piece collections. We are talking about reproductions. There is a kind of "market" for reproductions. Those who are at X or Y museum are more displayed and those who have been studied by a number of experts has also its place at this market. I would like masterpiece cards of paintings and sculptures that are at the basement of museums or taken away from public view because they are at private collections. It would require lots of money. But we cannot stop daring to dream. This is a good way to have access to art's history. I hope that their next step is making collections of one single artist at a time because it’s a good way to understand each artist and their arts, world and aesthetic in a more complex way. Since we still cannot travel in space and time at light speed we have to rely on reproductions although nothing compares to the experience of being on an exhibition dedicated to an artist. It's the most efficient and pleasuring way to understand the art and universe of an artist we like. Visit Bob's blog. This is a great source for art lovers. I'm visiting it daily.