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Cool article here. Talks about the appropriation of obscure photography and other art as visual ideas for music videos. Common practice in most visual design, though music videos tend to just recreate the photograph completely. Tsk tsk. In grad school, we were always doing stuff like this, finding a bunch of photographs that had the mood and feel for whatever show we were designing. Then sticking them in Photoshop and cutting and pasting them into bits of scenery; this chunk becomes a wall, this is the floor, these are the actors, here's a prop. You mess with it enough so it doesn't look like plagiarism, but that's pretty much how the professional world of production design goes. One of the students once downloaded some costume designs from another show and traced them. That got her in a bit of trouble; when you make the copying obvious, you threaten to blow the whole deal. And you never steal from theatre to do theatre; you steal photographs, paintings, and installation art. What are you, new?