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A few months ago, my reworked Legion of Super-heroes issues were spotlighted in a lecture by Francesca Coppa. The talk - titled Things We Don't Have In The Future...and How Fan Arts Can Help - was required viewing for first year students at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
(If the embedded file gives you trouble: Streaming on Blip.tv.)
My work's featured from about 15 minutes to 20 minutes in, but it's worth watching the whole thing. Plus lots of it is vids!
There's a very interesting bit (to me) when she moves from the animated Legion pic I recoloured to the original, and there is a audible sigh or gasp from the audience. *That* is why I use photoshop so often to make my point; it is almost impossible to recreate that "Oh!" moment with text, as human beings are extremely good at filtering out arguments they don't agree with. But images get sent to your brain with little red alert flags: what does this mean is it important is it a bear?
I do have a couple issues with the details (about me). Firstly, you might take away that *I* was around in the 1950's and 60's, but this is not the case! You guys, I am not secretly a grandmother here, although "70 year old woman learns Photoshop for great justice!" would have been a pretty awesome story.
And more importantly, I have problems with the context in which she uses "albino" as a descriptor. This actually turned into a several paragraph rant, which I'll probably post in the near future. But the short version: she is either using "albino" as a synonym for "pale white person" which, no; or she is honestly reading the character as having albinism and suggesting erasing that is a pretty cool thing I managed, which again, no; and PS, in a formal situation, "woman with albinism" is better.
At least she's using it as an adjective rather than a noun? But in a lecture celebrating how fans are working against the racism or sexism or homophobia in their culture, that little moment of Fail was pretty annoying.
That is the short version (with most of the How Dare You Impugn My Honour excised).
But other than that momentary lapse, it's a pretty interesting introduction to fan arts as conversation. Worth your time, even the bits that aren't about me!
(If the embedded file gives you trouble: Streaming on Blip.tv.)
My work's featured from about 15 minutes to 20 minutes in, but it's worth watching the whole thing. Plus lots of it is vids!
There's a very interesting bit (to me) when she moves from the animated Legion pic I recoloured to the original, and there is a audible sigh or gasp from the audience. *That* is why I use photoshop so often to make my point; it is almost impossible to recreate that "Oh!" moment with text, as human beings are extremely good at filtering out arguments they don't agree with. But images get sent to your brain with little red alert flags: what does this mean is it important is it a bear?
I do have a couple issues with the details (about me). Firstly, you might take away that *I* was around in the 1950's and 60's, but this is not the case! You guys, I am not secretly a grandmother here, although "70 year old woman learns Photoshop for great justice!" would have been a pretty awesome story.
And more importantly, I have problems with the context in which she uses "albino" as a descriptor. This actually turned into a several paragraph rant, which I'll probably post in the near future. But the short version: she is either using "albino" as a synonym for "pale white person" which, no; or she is honestly reading the character as having albinism and suggesting erasing that is a pretty cool thing I managed, which again, no; and PS, in a formal situation, "woman with albinism" is better.
At least she's using it as an adjective rather than a noun? But in a lecture celebrating how fans are working against the racism or sexism or homophobia in their culture, that little moment of Fail was pretty annoying.
That is the short version (with most of the How Dare You Impugn My Honour excised).
But other than that momentary lapse, it's a pretty interesting introduction to fan arts as conversation. Worth your time, even the bits that aren't about me!
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The longer version of the rant is on the theme of Albinism: FFS, People In General, This Shit Ain't Hard. There's probably something interesting to be said about the intersection of racism/exoticism and ablism, but I don't actually care about Furthering the Discourse (a secret: I *rarely* care about Furthering the Discourse. I just react sometimes to stuff that pisses me off).
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(Hey, could be worse--I just react sometimes to stuff that makes me want to hide in a hole.)