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In "A Spike Lee Joint", Spike Lee means that the film has been produced in a context (the joint in question being a venue, in this case the temporary autonomous zone of his film shoot) governed by his decisions.

Despite its wide use in the '90s during Lee's peak cultural influence, to the underground artscene, the term "joint" basically never used in that way. (Sorry, sometimes I have to open with a feint.) When you hear underground artscene doodz talking about "joints", what they are discussing (if they are not smoking marijuana in that moment) are jointly or collaboratively created artworks (sometimes also glossed as "collab"s) featuring the handiwork of two or more artists. Structurally many pieces containing distinct zones of contribution by different artists might not be considered joints (eg. a [scroller] featuring a picture by one artist and ending with a logo by another, or an ANSI screen illustrated by one artist and incorporating a lit written by a different writer) ... I believe what makes a piece truly earn joint status is that the creative partners got up in each others' areas and messed up each others' work over the course of the creative process, with give and take, rather than everyone staying in their lane and only colouring within the lines they drew themselves. A logo whose outline was drawn by one artist and coloured / shaded by another would be considered a joint. Remixes? Unclear, but I'd be inclined to say no without the active involvement of the original artist.

The 21st century advent of networked ANSI drawing in Moebius and (earlier) modern versions of [PabloDraw] provided fertile ground for joints, yielding some ridiculously large ones from the collected desks of [Blocktronics] artists. Prior to this long-anticipated technological development (seen early on in MS-DOS Pablo documentation), joints were made either through hot-seat computer use at nerd parties in the computer room, or feverishly passing along WIPs on the IRC like a hot potato, sometimes ensnaring up to a dozen contributors, none of whom were ever able to adequately communicate afterwards just which portions of the final work they were responsible for.