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“RIP.MIX.BURN.BAM.PFA celebrates the cultural and artistic practice of remix, inviting guest artists to “rip, mix, and burn” elements from two digital-media works in the museum's collection”
Month: October 2007
links for 2007-10-22
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“Now, Chris Anderson provides some handy stats that show that the music business is booming but says that the problem with the music labels is not that music is an industry in decline, but that they have a too-narrow view of what business they're in.”
links for 2007-10-18
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MTAA on Chris Fahey on what you learn in art school. You can’t just turn up for the lectures when you are making art…
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“Work that directly uses web portals such as Flickr, YouTube, and MySpace or virtual worlds, such as Second Life–along with projects that demonstrate similar principals of generative consumption–have become a significant part of the collection of inte
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“Interested individuals are invited to submit a 1-2 page manuscript on
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“This is completely real. You’re buying me a Guinness. You don’t get anything.”
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“I think as long as vendors manage to stay away from the whole “environmental effects of production and consumption” issue, we have a pretty good argument that Open Source is software's solution to creating the perfect efficient market. “
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“As you may know, you can view the HTML code with a standard browser. We do not permit you to view such code since we consider it to be our intellectual property protected by the copyright laws. You are therefore not authorized to do so.”
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“It brought culture to the masses and changed how we view our national treasures for ever. So why, asks Joanna Moorhead, was the country’s biggest ever art show airbrushed out of history? “
links for 2007-10-16
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“The Long Tail a thoroughly partial book. As I read through a second time, I was struck by what is missing. “
Blogs, Quotes and CC
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Creative Commons licenced blog that quotes other sources is not placing them under a CC licence.
It is also a fairly well known fact that most blog reader don’t understand this any better than they understand any of the rest of copyright law.
So I believe that blogs that quote often should say something like “Original content under a CC licence” or “My writing under a CC licence”. Like this one used to and will again when I fix it.
This would stop people, say, copying an Ursula K Le Guin story believing it is CC licenced.
It wouldn’t stop them copying it under the four-step Fair Use system of course, but that is a different matter.
WordPress Page Help
I am trying to add some pages to this blog but they are not showing up.
For example: http://OFFLINEZIP.wpsho/weblog/free-culture-greatest-hits/
Is there something I need to do to my blog or web server settings, could this be a plugin acting up, or is it likely that I’ve misconfigured something somewhere?
Any help gratefully received.
links for 2007-10-14
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Excellent interview with Eben Moglen in which he discusses Free Software and how it relates to Free Culture, as well as how to pay artists under Free Culture.
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Here are the 5 ways to help CC that I mentioned.
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Cory shows some class in an apology to Ursula K Le Guin over a Fair Use dispute. The links are interesting as well, although I wouldn’t use Le Guin or Pournelle’s posts as guides to copyright law, and the call to reinstate the e-piracy group is bogus.
links for 2007-10-13
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“Russia’s culture minister, Alexander Sokolov, announced that he is banning a Bansky-inspired photo of two kissing policemen, and 16 other works, from a Paris exhibition of contemporary Russian art.”
links for 2007-10-12
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“According to analysis made by the Daily Swarm, Radiohead's In Rainbow has sold at the equivalent price of$8 a CD worldwide. In just three days it has sold 1.2 million downloads and made up to $9.6m.”
Art and Language wrote lyrics that The Red Krayola (nee Crayola) set to music for three albums in the 1970s and 1980s. After a gap of more than twenty years they have got together again a fourth time for “Sighs Trapped By Liars”.
The album has a summery psychedelic rock sound that is very contemporary in its smooth retro feel. The songs are about mirrors, the authors of “Art Since 1900”, economic and social anecdotes and the texts of various Art & Language artworks. The lyrics, written by the two male artists of Art & Language, are delivered by two female vocalists, continuing the mirroring theme.
The sleeve notes mercifully contain brief explanations of the lyrics as well as the text of the lyrics themselves. These are songs that are deceptively easy on the ear. Their usually laid back feel hides a musical as well as a lyrical bite. Art & Language’s paintings are still texts, and The Red Krayola’s songs are still incisive.
“Four Stars” (about the authors of “Art Since 1900”), “Laughter At The Foot Of The Cross” (about a story by Rabelais), “Hostage” (the text of a series of paintings by A&L) and the title track are my favourites from an album of thirteen strong tracks.
Sometimes Art & Language’s lyrics and The Red Krayola’s instrumentation are both unstructured enough at the same time that they give neither singers nor listener enough to work with. This can be disorientating, which is presumably the point, but it does rob a good anecdote (“Jerry Fodor’s Story”) of its satisfying conclusion.
You can get the album from any online CD store or on iTunes. I recommend very highly that you do. There are previews on some sites, notably Amazon, so don’t just take my word for it.