Sampling was a challenging, interesting, and frustrating experience. The challenging parts of the sampling experiment was : the topic, pictures to include, finding the pictures, placing the pictures, and getting the right idea across to the viewer. Then came the interesting and frustrating experience when I had to crop, resize, and clean the pictures. The interesting experience about this sampling project was formulating my ideas into images. The frustrating and painful experience was finding the pictures, cropping, and cleaning the pictures.
The sampling experiment that I liked more was the one where you could use Google. There was an unlimited supply of pictures that you could use for your collage. The second collage was painful. Either you drew the images or found them in the public domain. Even though it was painful, I felt that the 2nd experiment best captured my argument. The second collage forced me manipulate arbitrary pictures to say what I wanted about authorship and copyright. The experience has taught me that being an author is very hard. Especially the second experience, it has taught me that coming up with your own thing takes a lot of talent and creativity. Also I learned that copyright protects the author's idea and creativity. Authorship and copyright are very simple concepts, but has very powerful meanings.
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I ran into some of the same challanges when it came to using the technology to manipulat the pictures. I never would have expected some of the simplest tasks like cropping could become so difficult when you needed to do it to create an entire canvas. I think the easy part was finding the images to use, but then bringing them all together to form one collective piece was a different story.
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