This article blew my mind. It was sone of those articles that covers a topic I’ve thought about (mostly dealing with music over the decades), but takes it a level I never could have, resulting in a blown mind.
The observation that all new mediums are both highly creative in their earliest stages and made up of older mediums is brilliant. The examples were excellent: the first books, comic strips, cars and movies were all highly experimental in their earliest forms and then standardized for mass production, trading creative elements for wide-scale exposure.
And the fact that this is occurring again with the digital revolution made me feel good about my investment in the iMedia program.
I’d love to go deeper, but I’ve got around 300 more pages to read for next week and God knows what the next two days of assignments will bring.
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