Episode #78: Good Enough to Steal?

SHOW THEME

James and Catherine dip their toes into hope before tackling plagiarism vs appropriation in pop-art

SHOW NOTES

• 00:30 - Hope and bikes on the ceiling


• 02:30 - Ghosted by a chihuahua


• 04:15 - It's gonna take years! 


• 05:00 - Normal American hoarder?


• 07:00 - No boxes from Temu!


• 08:40 - James debunks a dog harness 


• 10:20 - Instagram algorithm whiners 


• 12:45 - More whining about Lichtenstein 'It's called stealing': new allegations of plagiarism against Roy Lichtenstein


• 13:54 - Seeing the "Ben-Day" dots


• 15:00 - Disposable illustration, pop-art


• 16:00 - "It's called stealing", said Hy Eisman, but James has a different take! 


• 18:00 - Appropriation vs plagiarism 


• 20:29 - Seeing "BLAM"!


• 21:25 - American Art Industrial Complex squashes comic collage 


• 23:18 - Isn't art disposable?


• 26:15 - Chinese website snatched James' image and used it for a logo!


• 29:21 - "WHAAM! BLAM! Roy Lichtenstein And The Art Of Appropriation" documentary 


• 31:10 - AI similarities? 


• 32:21 - Intellectually interesting, but not analogous 


• 33:27 - Lichtenstein IS pop-art, Warhol isn't


• 34:16 - Not a transformative soup can, but good enough to steal! 


• 35:24 - "Come play with us forever"