The high-profile likes of comedian Will Ferrell, Apple innovator Steve Wozniak, rapper Killer Mike and more may be feeling the Bern, but not New York-based Singaporean artist John Clang.
Clang had produced a stop-motion ad as part of a campaign for non-profit organisation Hopenhagen back in 2009, to raise awareness of the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. This is how it looks like:
Hopenhagen: 6.8 Billion People Together Can Fight Climate Change from John Clang on Vimeo.
Thus it wouldn’t be far fetched to think that there’s just too much parallel thinking going on in a viral clip recently produced by New York-based creative agency HUMAN. Inspired by United States presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders and accompanied by his impassioned call for unity regardless of race, language and religion, the visual concept is rather similar to the one Clang put out seven years ago.
What was frustrating for Clang was the fact that he received no credit at all for the concept — but it was fixed later when his name was added to the ‘Special Thanks’ section. Speaking to PetaPixel, Clang insists that his work should have been acknowledged from the start.
Clang’s agency theCollectiveShift left a comment on the video, stating that “it is only fair and the right thing to do for proper accreditation and acknowledgement to take place”.
Together.Vote — the Facebook community page about Bernie Sanders — acknowledged John’s work, as well as numerous other visual references by other artists. They linked Clang’s website as well in the comment and Vimeo video as well.
