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Mechanical ReproductionThere's an article called "Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" by someone named Walter Benjamin. It's long. Here's the gist of it:

When you make a copy of an artistic work, it loses some of its zing, its wow factor, its "aura" (was the word Benjamin used) because what you're looking at was physically created by a machine and never touched by the artist's loving hands.

Benjamin wrote this article around the time photography was invented. To the people of that era, seeing copies was a bit of a shock. Until then, everything was a guaranteed original - there were no two ways about it. And as convenient as our modern lives have become due

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~Hermux-Tantamoq Jan 4, 2010
I WANT.
MAIL ME.
IN BOX.
NAO.

:3
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~CaptainQuirk Jan 5, 2010
lol sure.
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~shadowlounge Dec 29, 2009
did u make them...they look delicious! :la:
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~CaptainQuirk Dec 30, 2009
Yep, made them. So thanks. :)
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~shadowlounge Dec 30, 2009
welcome, you make epic cupcakes. :la:
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~CaptainQuirk Dec 31, 2009
^_^
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