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  • “market sectors depending on copyright’s limitations and exceptions (like fair use) represent one-sixth of the GDP of the US. CCIA’s study found that these industries contributed $2.2 trillion to the economy and accounted for more than 17 million jobs. In

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links for 2007-09-12

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Generative Art Projects

2048 – First, Last and Inbetween

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Images from the start, middle and end of the run. There shouldn’t be any mathematical differences. I’ve been selective for variety more than quality.

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draw-something: almost there

1987 images since Friday evening. 2048 shortly…

I’ll put some of the good ones on Flickr when it’s finished.

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links for 2007-09-09

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draw something In Progress

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It’s up to 700 images. A 400 Mhz G4 takes a couple of minutes to create a drawing. I may just run it to 1000 rather than 2048, which will probably take until some time tomorrow.

So far the images that work are reasonably diverse. The images that don’t work tend to be just a few dots or lines on a plain background. The colours aren’t working as well as they seemed to in the test application so I’ll have to find out why that is.

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Where Are The Joneses Ending Up?

Last few episodes of Where Are The Joneses?:
90: http://wherearethejoneses.com/2007/09/05/
91: http://wherearethejoneses.com/2007/09/06/91-road-movie/

92: http://wherearethejoneses.com/2007/09/07/92/
The Joneses are off to a film premiere in Manchester.

Things are getting a bit strange.

There are some guest appearances and some more siblings.

But will they find out who their father is?

And will that be the end of their problems?

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draw-something 2048 times

I’ve just started a version of draw-something running that is going to generate 2048 images. I wonder if it will be finished by Monday?

I’m going to go through the images and see what works and what doesn’t. I’ll modify draw-something to make it more likely that it will produce images that work and less likely to produce images that don’t.

The first results indicate that just dots on a plain background really doesn’t work. 😉

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links for 2007-09-06

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Aesthetics

Press Release For the A&L / Red Krayola Album

http://www.dragcity.com/news.html

SIGHS MATTERS

Lately, Mayo Thompson and The Red Krayola have been thrilling us to the extreme. The level of musicianship, surprise, deep thoughts, hot and cold running humor and really, all-round entertainment found in their Introduction LP/CD and “Red Gold” CDEP releases of 2006 might have represented a one-two punch for some – but damn if The Red Krayola don't intend to push their luck with a bit of the old three-four here in 2007. First (and finally!) was the return of Soldier-Talk, their 1979 punk-pop uber-work – a reissue nearly 30 years in the making, a classic slab never before compacted to disc. Now The Red Krayola have re-allied with Art & Language to produce an all-new work. Art & Language, as you may recall, are an arts collective whose lyrics provided The Red Krayola with a springboard to several of their classic songs – “A Portrait of V.I. Lenin in the Style of Jackson Pollock,” “Black Snakes,” “Born In Flames,” “Future Pilots” and of course, all of the Kangaroo? and Corrected Slogans albums. For many, these recordings represented the epochal The Red Krayola contribution…but for those many, the new album Sighs Trapped By Liars will force extreme revisionism (or as the more stiff-necked may assert, revulsionism!). That's just how good the new album by The Red Krayola with Art & Language is. The cast of Tom Watson, John McEntire, Noel Kupersmith, Jim O'Rourke and Mayo Thompson roll out a deep-pile musical carpet for chanteuses Elisa Randazzo and Sandy Yang, who share lead vocal duties throughout the entire record. That's right – no signature vocal presence from Mayo, who contents himself in arranging vocal lines for the ladies straight out of his private libretto. They acquit themselves magnificently to the complexities of the Art & Language lyrics, which are as ever caught up in social and aesthetic conflicts – though a new and different wave of issues than the 70s and 80s lyrics addressed. To unravel the Gordian knot for yourself, you'll find great enjoyment in hearing Sighs Trapped By Liars, which will be available everywhere that the world is envisioned as a better place (and sells records) in the waning moments of September!

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