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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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I've seen this person a few years in a row and it's always amazing. <3 Anime North 2012.

~loolaa Jul 22, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

That is an amazing costume.

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~CaptainQuirk Aug 11, 2012

There were a few of them last year. I think that person made raptors for their friends too.

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=pound-key Jun 5, 2012 Student General Artist

wow.

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~CaptainQuirk Jun 6, 2012

OMNOMNOMNOMNOM

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~Sejuay Jun 4, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

NYARR I remember this costume from last year too.

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~CaptainQuirk Jun 4, 2012

What costume? That's a real dinosaur.

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~Sejuay Jun 5, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

PARDON MY IGNORANCE. AAAAAHHHHH

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~ThunderCharger1234 Jun 1, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Clever girl...

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~That-Writer-Kid Jun 1, 2012

This.

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~ThunderCharger1234 Jun 2, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

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