Post by Tom Cloudkicker on Aug 29, 2010 14:04:39 GMT -5
No, I don't mean the kind of icon you'd use as your profile picture; I'm thinking of the kind of personage who achieves such a high strata of popularity that the person (or character in this case) becomes so much associated with the entity he/she represents.
For example: Mickey Mouse is an Icon; he is the most recognized personage in the Disney lexicon and in cartoons generally. The character has been at the center of projects by Disney himself that took technology to a higher level. "Steamboat Willie", first animated cartoon with sound. "Fantasia" (as the Sorcerer's Apprentice) sought to combine Classical music with artistic imagery which was underappreciated in its own time, but has become a masterpiece in our time. "The Mickey Mouse Club" made a relatively new medium, television, aspire to a level of excellence that medium could be.
Other characters have become Icons in their own right; Donald Duck and Winnie-the-Pooh (A.A. Milne) are prime examples. You might possibly name others.
Does a cloud-surfing wunderkind like Kit Cloudkicker have what it takes to achieve Icon status? Can a disadvantaged, orphaned bear cub who has turned his life around and discovered a loving home and a life where he's gone from a dead-end street to the wide blue yonder hold a source of imagination and inspiration for a new generation that propels him to the kind of status of a Mickey Mouse?
I think that's "something to shoot for"; what's your take?
For example: Mickey Mouse is an Icon; he is the most recognized personage in the Disney lexicon and in cartoons generally. The character has been at the center of projects by Disney himself that took technology to a higher level. "Steamboat Willie", first animated cartoon with sound. "Fantasia" (as the Sorcerer's Apprentice) sought to combine Classical music with artistic imagery which was underappreciated in its own time, but has become a masterpiece in our time. "The Mickey Mouse Club" made a relatively new medium, television, aspire to a level of excellence that medium could be.
Other characters have become Icons in their own right; Donald Duck and Winnie-the-Pooh (A.A. Milne) are prime examples. You might possibly name others.
Does a cloud-surfing wunderkind like Kit Cloudkicker have what it takes to achieve Icon status? Can a disadvantaged, orphaned bear cub who has turned his life around and discovered a loving home and a life where he's gone from a dead-end street to the wide blue yonder hold a source of imagination and inspiration for a new generation that propels him to the kind of status of a Mickey Mouse?
I think that's "something to shoot for"; what's your take?
