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research: MOTION GRAPHICS

The past has often been a source of material for artists looking for stuff to appropriate and transform in their work. While copyright laws generally frown on this kind of thing, the presence of large archives of downloadable material on-line only make this easier to do.

X-Entertainment has a collection of old TV commercials from the 1980s for download.... I wonder when we'll start seeing bits of these showing up at festivals?






 
 

 
 
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