life is like a cow

but i dont know how that applies
Wes Anderson Bingo

Wes Anderson Bingo

Carl Wayne, Steve Winwood, John Mayall, Eric Burdon and Jimi Hendrix

Carl Wayne, Steve Winwood, John Mayall, Eric Burdon and Jimi Hendrix

David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust photo session, 1972

David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust photo session, 1972

Typewriters and their users

Typewriters and their users

London Railway Map, 1887

London Railway Map, 1887

The kernel, the soul—let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances—is plagiarism. For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily use by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing. When a great orator makes a great speech you are listening to ten centuries and ten thousand men—but we call it his speech, and really some exceedingly small portion of it is his. But not enough to signify. It is merely a Waterloo. It is Wellington’s battle, in some degree, and we call it his; but there are others that contributed. It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a telephone or any other important thing—and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite—that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that.

Mark Twain, 1892 in a letter to Helen Keller

Sonic Youth - Goo (1990)Bob Dylan’s Desolation Row version

Sonic Youth - Goo (1990)
Bob Dylan’s Desolation Row version

The Mighty Harley Davidson, 1948

The Mighty Harley Davidson, 1948

Pepsi Ad, 1955

Pepsi Ad, 1955