Have you ever had a project you were working on or maybe just considering, only to find out later your idea had allready been produced? This recently happend to me on a project Jerry and I are collaborating together on. When you work so hard on getting your thoughts together and manage to finally get something down on paper, it can take the wind out of your sails to see a new and  ready to go production about to be released that is to close to your concept for you to continue on the path you started down. As hard of a blow that it was ,it did get me thinking about something a friend of mine said a few months ago. He believes that there is nothing completely original left to be developed in todays world. We are just building on the accomplishments of those that came before us. Is this true? Have we as an artistic society exhausted all that is pure and truely unique? It does seem that Hollywood has lost some of its creativity lately. They are repackaging the old and selling it to us as something new. A good example of this is Pixars Cars, the plot follows that of Doc Hollywood and I mean to the point that they could have almost used the same script. So, I guess we will take another look at the direction we need to take our project and with any luck we might be able to finish it before something else comes around that causes us to re-direct again.

What do you think about the subject? Are we out of ideas? What are some examples of works you feel were truely one of a kind.               DB