Venus in Furs--- Definition of plagiarism ?

Venus in Furs, a photo by =Marco= on Flickr.

Okay, putting a disclaimer will justify the plagiarism?

Check this out.

Do you think I can get away with painting a picture that are copied from magazine spread in an art class?
Would I be able to receive a passing grade?
Let's see, the idea of an art is not just the finished product. Is the inspiration original? The idea of composition original?
"Venus in Furs" is a book. So the title is not original, but the content of the book has nothing to do with fashion spread.

The virtuosity is not about how you can "re-create" the existing art. Do you know how much does the artist suffers from the pain of creating the original idea? Painting or composing music, no matter the format, when you concoct the original idea of the creation, your work is more than half way done.  The rest is labor.

The art cannot be 100% labor. That become a simple craft. Nothing more.

Crafts men that produce the same chairs everyday are not the artists. The design has been done by someone else, and he simply recreates. The craftsmanship is an important part of the quality of the product, however, that is simply EXPECTED, isn't it?
There are highly skilled craftsmen, who may be able to command a lot of fees... But that isn't the point, either. The fee is paid, only if the quality of the product is met.

It may involve complicated skills, but it never be an art, because the idea of an art MUST be original.



Just a thought.

NY times reports the cell phone incident at NY Phil.

These kind of things can easily prevented.

Mandate No Cell Reception in Concert Halls.


You go to concert because you want to have a few hours of peace, immerse yourself in fragment of humanity left.  Two hours. If you can't afford that two hours, you can't afford to be in the concert hall.

So I dropped that class.

Oh, Two of my professors enthusiastically recommended me to be their each respected subject tutor.

"Fred received the highest score in the class, and poised to be the great tutor for this subject. "

--- it isn't music. It is for one of the science course. Yea, I'm not just a music geek. 

Update of yesterday's subject post:

There is no fucking point in arguing with professor who can't keep the logic straight. so I dropped that course. No point in staying in the class where I will not allowed to be my best. No FUCKING way.

How in the hell is my fault that 35 students missing their first assignment? 

The answer is one of the following.

1. Because I turned in my post 3 days before the due.

2. Because the content I posted was too sophisticated for others. 

3. WHATEVER.

4. Because those 35 who missed the due date were lazy bastards who can't keep their asses organized enough, or had no intention to turn in the assignment in the first place, because they have stupid excuses like... "My dog was using my laptop." 

5. Answer 3. and 4. 

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Anyways, I never heard the excuse, "I didn't turn in my assignment, because one of my classmates were smarter than I am." 

But according to my professor, the depth of my analysis and thorough content is the reason half of her students didn't do their assignment. Yea, really... *rolls eyes* 

Yea. 

This has to be one of the best medals of my fucking life. Maybe I set this in my epitaph.

"Here lies the one, whose wits were too sophisticated for his college classmates."

lame. 

It is just too stupid. 

They can go fuck themselves. srsly.

I can understand some 14 year old can go emo over school, because some educators are actually lame.

This is a real episode...

I am taking 17 full time units this semester, which does not include my two units in Mariachi study. 3 units are online, for music appreciation.

The online class consists of online quizzes, concert reports and discussion board posts. And today, my professor emailed me that I should taking "notch down" my post, so that I don't intimidate other students. She is blaming me that my depth of sophisticated post actually preventing other student to make their own posts. She went out to say that it is probably my fault that half of her students missed first deadline. Really?

She suggested that I should post public version of shorter post in Discussion, and I email my comprehensive version to her.
I told her I don't keep double books.

Okay, my post was thorough, but not offensive by any means. If nothing else, it was still humorous. It was academically insightful, accurate and used the terminology in precise manner, which she actually asked us to do. It was obviously written by someone with the years of experience in music.
And that is bad?
Isn't that the purpose of discussion board, so that you can learn from more experienced students?

I replied to her, I was never asked to dumb down my classroom comments in any courses, and there are always someone with different accomplishment levels, because this is college, not community center hobby class for seniors and toddlers.
If I was to take basketball class or swimming class, as good as I am, I will be still beaten by some 6 foot tall 18 year olds, however I tried. I'll be 48 in 5 months. I can swim 2 hours straight, but I can't finish 100 meters in  90 seconds anymore.
Are they supposed to slow down or miss their 3 pointer shot so the old Japanese elf won't feel so inferior? NO.  So why do I have to?

After that, she said she didn't mean to upset me. I wasn't upset. I was taken aback by her suggestion because it came from someone who knows what the real competitive academic environment is like. FFS, she and her husband has 3 degrees each. Her husband from Juliard, being the most competitive music school in the world. Did any of their professors ever told them to play less musically, so that less talented musicians won't be intimidated? I don't think so.

So she has 45 lazy ass bastards in her class who can't even keep the due date of their first assignment. And the reason is one of the student has posted much more sophisticated contents before anyone did?
Excuse me? Am I hearing this correctly?
I am so turned off by this.

She said we should speak in person, and I told her I agree. See what happens.

I wouldn't be surprised if this came from some elementary school teacher, that I should take down a notch when I'm speaking to a 5th graders about music. I understand that. And I would not have spoken in full academic terminology in the first place.

Not in college, though. She explained that she is worried she is the only one who is getting what I was saying. So what? Others just need to keep up.

  If I have to worry about whether my best is too good for a college course, where should I go?  

Life and Style tips from 100 year old lady

Deliciously Fabulous!

I wish I know this woman. She probably has a lot to say, and probably tell you like it is.

She probably uses French perfume that only be worn by grown woman, and her nails are meticulously groomed. In her tips, she says she doesn't wear jeans. And I understand why.

I always thought that the woman in advanced stage of her life should wear reds and bold colors. It takes some balls to pull off the outfit, and her wardrobe should reflect her rich experiences.

When I grow up, I want to be like her.

Assumptions and Facts...

...are not the same thing.

Happy New Year. I'm enjoying my time out from my regularly schedule. lol I hang out in Trans and renew some of my longstanding friendship from old time sake.

Although I have logged in weekly to purge IM and receive notecard, I have not done any shopping, or catching up with the change in SL. One of the big one being mesh and menu/function change.
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That is not what I wanted to write today. I wanted to talk about this avatar started to hanging around Trans from not too long ago, I suppose. As my rule of thumb is that, I do not assume anything about anyone, if I can help it. I will be polite, and certainly not going to be abrasive without any reason or provocation.

And there is this avatar. She is probably trying too hard to fit in. Her superficial being just grates my nerve ending every time she opens her mouth.  A couple of days ago, I totally blocked her, so I don't have to suffer the nonsense while I socialize with people who matters to me.

Maybe I should have permanently muted her. For I probably won't miss anything. But open minded person that I am, I unblocked her. And happens again, again, and again.

There she is, she doesn't seem to understand that some jokes are meant for the people who have been known each other for sometime, and not for the random person. You don't have to explain it. Any marginally educated person with average intelligent should be able to tell if it is a right time to say certain things to certain group of people.
I actually tolerate a lot of immaturity if I know the person/persons. It takes a lot to actually upset me. I rant, but most of the time, I rant because its funny. I don't rant because I'm really angry nor because I am affected personally.

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I was there, because Trans recently(like several month ago. lol) hired sexy German DJ, and I just adore her accents and personality from the first day I saw her.
So, she introduced next song, and with her lovely accent, she commented that its about the BDSM scene and people who belong to that category.  I know a lot of people in Japan that belong to that scene and fetish clubs and the conversation naturally went to that direction.

Arcy was asking me if I was dominant or submissive, I answered I'm inclined to be dominant naturally, but I could switch for the right person. If anyone knows anything about what that means, the next question should be something in the line of ... that is interesting, how so? or that is not something you hear everyday...

Then, boom.

That avatar jumps in and makes following comments.

"I would take you for switcher, too. Fred."

.. if you know me already, you know the awkward silence that followed. And you know why she grates my nerve. It could have been interesting conversation with the DJ, instead, I had to cut her off before she thinks its cool to assume anything about me. Moreover, she should not mistaken her own imagination and assumption for a fact.

"I don't think you know me that well."

It is the truth. I don't know her, and at this point, I don't care to know her.
I only said, I switch for a right person. I did not elaborate why or what, nor explained what I like or what I don't like. I did not define what the dominant/submissive/switch is about, and I did not explicate where I stand as a simple definition of "dominant".
And this avatar went so far to define me as switcher for as far as I know, she has no knowledge of anything.

I may be switch. It is a fact, but her assumption is not based on the fact. It was an inference, or ignorant presumption, not even based on the conversation or what she learned of me from the last few days, watching me.
If anyone is remotely intelligent enough to make a conjecture about my character by a week worth of observation and conversation, she should have known not to make that assumption in the first place.

See? I don't judge people, but those people open their mouth and just give it away.

If she thinks that her assumption is close enough to the fact and therefore it is good enough, I really don't have any value for her opinion either.

Assumptions based on imagination has nothing to do with the fact. Although I accept other people's opinion, if that opinion is not based on facts, then that again, has no value.


Did she make that hypothesis based on her close and objective observation of me?

No.

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And again, I tell you like it is. Because you are entitled to my opinion.