My 10 words that help represent what it means for me to be an artist:

instinct
hands/use of body
imagination
emotion
trial and error
sketching/sketchbooks/ideas
creation
messy
expression
individuality

From our reading, Charles Sims says that people need to use their original creativity and not “spend all their time diddling around with footage that other people have made…” (Lessig 91). I kind of agree with Sims in that many people could create a lot more with their original thought and ideas but I also don’t discourage that type of creativity either. I believe it just opens up a new category of skill even though they didn’t make the original film or art. It doesn’t mean they can’t create something new and meaningful with the already made material. Some people aren’t skilled in making the piece of art or film but is very skilled with assembling the pieces with computer programs and such.