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Creativity and New Media

I use open source images, song lyrics, TV quotes, and free to download fonts to create textual images. I always make sure to add a source for the text, and only use open source images even though I am not using my art for any commercial use. I think it is very cool that one can create using open source images and free fonts. It removes certain limits that may have been in place before. It is basically creating artwork with no cost for supplies.






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