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(Unverified)Oct 10th 2006 8:05AM
From those comments from Drawn!
# Cassidy Curtis Says:
June 13th, 2006 at 9:56 am
I feel the need to clarify the history here a little bit on behalf of the team at Stamen, who are good friends of mine.
The original SWF that Stamen put up was just a little toy they created for fun. They didn’t go around claiming it was “art” or any such nonsense. These are not pretentious people. Go check out their site, you’ll see what I mean. Very down to earth, hard-working people.
So then this Manetas guy took Stamen’s little SWF– the entire thing, intact, since a SWF file does not contain source code and cannot be modified– and put it on his own website, claiming he himself had created it. He then asked Eric for the source code, so he could modify it– apparently because he didn’t even know enough about Flash to reverse-engineer it, which is incredibly stupid when you think about it, because it is quite frankly a very simple toy! (A great idea, but very simple if you spend a few moments analyzing how it works.)
And now, years later, Manetas has stolen yet another artist’s name, and is still passing off Stamen’s work as his own, now calling it “Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas”. Give me a break.
Anyone who’s too techno-illiterate to reverse-engineer a simple Flash toy has no business calling himself a “digital artist”, or whatever silly name this guy has invented to market himself. Time to move on.