- "The Economist has come out against DRM in a tell-it-like-it-is editorial that explains why anti-copying technology is bad for the entertainment industry."
- Let's make free songs from the lyrics up!
- "Joanna has just finished re-shooting her scenes from the original BLADE RUNNER movie. Joanna is wearing her original outfit (which she kept over from the first production). These new scenes will be part of the upcoming special BLADE RUNNER DVD re-release
April 2007 Archives
I've started sketching some ideas out in Processing.It doesn't work on PowerPC Linux you know.
- "Yes, Ms Peters, we knew the Copyright Office has no interest in consumers getting music nor in artists getting paid, but you needn't have put it so bluntly."
- Reuters article on art in Second Life.
- Article on art and gallerists in Second Life
- "Viacom acknowledged their mistake, told us about the policies it has put in place to protect fair use on YouTube, and agreed to introduce improvements to those policies"
Participation on Web 2.0 sites remains weak | Technology | Internet | ReutersSimilarly, only two-tenths of one percent of visits to Flickr, a popular photo-editing site owned by Yahoo Inc., are to upload new photos, the Hitwise study found.So let's get this straight. 0.002 of the hits that Flickr gets are to upload photos. Which means that out of every million hits, two thousand are uploads. And by all estimates Flickr gets several million hits every day.So if you actually do the maths that's much better participation and distribution than traditional media.You can see the headlines if 99% of hits were uploads. Web 2.0 would be vanity sites that no-one ever reads.So assuming that participation is increasing (which it will even if the percentage remains constant) and that Web 2.0 allows mere consumption (which it clearly does), it is both a new kind of democratic media and a threat to traditional media. If only there was some way to misunderstand statistics in order to put a negative spin on this?
- Gentleman hero of the universe and talking animal of some kind from the author of Bear.
- "a vibrant and expanding artworld economy is what we all wanted, isn't it? The problem is that the discourse (academic, intellectual, intra-artist or otherwise) seems to have waned as the New Economy waxed."
- "Enjoy these high-res scans of the mysterious 16th-Century parchment book known as the Voynich Manuscript (which is likely to be a 500-year-old hoax)."
- "a low-wattage color-palette for use in web-applications"
- An academy award-winning film now cc licensed.
- "Whatever the promise of [Web 2.0], and the wonderful creativity it has unlocked, it remains a far cry from my idea of real cultural freedom."
- "An exhibition of art from recycled or found art materialsMonday, April 16 - Friday, May 25, 2007"
- Mmmm. Colours. Both spellings so nobody's offended. ;-)
- Major UK Broadcaster Channel 4 talk Creative Commons.
The third GPL3 draft mentions Fair Use in a manner similar to the Creative Commons licences, guaranteeing the Fair Use rights of people who receive copies of the work. Fair Use can be an extensive exception to copyright, allowing derivative works to claim a new copyright separate from that of the parent work.This means that proprietary derivatives of GPL-licenced sofwtare could conceivably be made under Fair Use as long as they satisfy one or more of the criteria used to evaluate Fair Use claims. This is true of GPL-2 licenced work as well, and the FSF's GPL FAQ make this explicit. Nobody has exploited this as far as I know. It may not be possible to claim Fair Use of source code in a way that is harmful to Free Software.But if it is possible to make Fair Use of GPL licensed source code to create proprietary software or to distribute binaries without source this results in a number of ideological and practical double-binds that will need some subtlety and a sense of irony to resolve. Even if it is not actually possible this will not stop Fair Use claims against the GPL being funded by the usual suspects. It is important that the Free Software community considers Fair Use before this happens so that a measured and effective response can be made where appropriate.
"Britain is full of teachers pretending to be "artists", "Artists" pretending to be French Philosophers, curators pretending to be revolutionaries, etc., etc. Now bourgeois art teachers pretend they are socialist artists-It is the same recurring problem: the historical conditions they are really in are ignored in favour of the historical conditions they want, need, believe, feel intimidated into supporting, feel as though they ought to be in."- Art & Language, "Art for Society?", in Art-Language, Vol. 4, No. 4, June 1980, pp.8-9. Quoted in http://www.metamute.org/en/Mistaken-As-Red
Screwdrivers are useful tools. You can open consumer electronics with them, you can assemble furniture with them, or you can misuse them to open tins of paint. There is nothing profound about them, they are just useful devices. They are not something you have to think about, just go to the shop and buy one then use it as you see fit.In a free society, people should be free to use screwdrivers for whatever tasks they have at hand to pursue their own chosen ends within society. For the state or other entities to try to prevent them from doing so would be an infraction of personal liberty. It would be coercion, unfreedom. It should be resisted by the people and wherever possible the ability to use screwdrivers freely should be defended.Screwdriver freedom is a trivial but vitally important matter. It's trivial because all you have to do to support it is to make sure that people can use screwdrivers. It's vitally important because how free would you be if you were not always free to use a general-purpose device to pursue your chosen ends within society?
- Party photo communities.
Well that's three days lost to a Debian upgrade screw up.On the plus side I have a nice clean install of Etch now.Thanks to Matt Lee for help and emotional support. ;-)
Enarting is generalized nomination.
- "Remix Theory is an online resource by Eduardo Navas that offers some of his research on Remix."
- "As the sheer number of annual events continues to grow, curators, collectors and dealers are starting to feel fatigued"
- "Fairism (if you will) is inexorable, given today's proliferation of galleries (hundreds in New York's Chelsea alone)."
- "75% of all artists profit from filesharing."
- village voice > art > Is the Art Market Making Us Stupid? Or Are We Making It Stupid? by Jerry Saltz"Is the art market making us stupid? Or are we making it stupid?"
- "we are happy to present you with our ten top patentsof charming, curious and useful tools for creative people,some of which were invented over a century ago. "
- Environmental hazard data for map mashups.
- "Numbers seem like pretty basic items, and it might be imagined that the brain has a correspondingly simple way of handling them. In reality, however, our use of numbers is extremely complex."
- "Part 3 of our code snippets series takes a look at more handy pieces of html, ajax and css that you can incorporate into your web designs. "
- "From photographing every house in America, to putting every book online, complete databases are all the rage"
- Nice LeWitt article that balances the conceptual and the minimal sides of his work well
- How to do print-style typographic grids in CSS.
- "It shouldn't be surprising that research on consciousness is alternately exhilarating and disturbing."
- "the undeniable presence of art in all facets of videogames, be it creation, the end product, or the experience of play, proves that videogames are a new and emerging art form."
- "brief but provocative and illuminating meditation on the current craze for searching out, denouncing and punishing authors who appear to have borrowed the work of others"
- "MEXICA, developed by Rafael Pérez y Pérez, is a computer program capable of authoring stories all by itself. "
- "Using Illustrator's pencil tool and shapes of solid color, you can imitate the graphic novel styling of A Scanner Darkly. An animator from the film shows us how. "
- TIny Linux PCs.
- A public service publisher in the UK shouldn't just give cash to the usual suspects.
- "Howling may be an excellent stress reliever but university officials are frowning on using the school library as the venue. "
- "Earlier this week, Dutch politicians suggested that it might be a good idea to tax Internet traffic, and use this money to compensate the music industry. This, under the condition that DRM is abandoned, and people can't be charged for downloads."
- "They also showed some of the interviews in game, and the effect of avatars watching those interviews seemed to magnify the already mind-bending properties of the project by an order of magnitude."
- "Worldbuilding numbs the reader's ability to fulfil their part of the bargain, because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done."
- "Despite my bristling reaction all those years ago, I shamelessly admit that the computer has radically altered how I draw, and how I think about drawing. It's improved my speed, and I think, my creativity. I still use a pencil, but it's not the only
- A new web comic from the author of the asphyxiatingly funny "Bear".
- "There was an article on open source filmmaking in The Daily Telegraph on Tuesday entitled ‘How audience power could shape the future of movie-making'."
- "For all the talk about the activity of the contemporary art market right now, you'd think there'd be a product to back it. Leaving Chelsea this Saturday I felt like I was reliving the dot com boom: everybody's investing in empty products that do nothing,
- "Mark Tribe and Reena Jana have released their survey of new media and net art, New Media Art (Taschen, 2006) as an open source, cc-licensed wiki. Rock on! "
- "The advent of open source software has produced more than lower software costs for users. It has also created major changes in the economic interaction among players in the software ecosystem."
- "Read the following, bearing in mind that most dealers out in our art world are talking loudly about an immanent collapse of the art market. They think we are living in a bubble that has to pop sometime soon."
- "Yes, the western academic world is very much like Weimar Germany, finding itself in a situation of losing power and influence. Fortunately, the countries that matter now are China and India, and the Chinese and Indian experts do not share the mood of doo
- Conference with Art & Language as speakers. Art & Language rock.
I have two new reviews up at Furtherfield:Scanpath - Catherine BakerThe Sheep Market - Aaron Koblin These are both CC-BY-SA-3.0, my first 3.0 works. I will relicence my art under 3.0 when I get the chance, but you can place derivatives of it under 3.0 anyway thanks to the upgrade clause in the 2.x licences.
- "The Free Culture Foundation [1] has commissioned a set of essays examining issues at the heart of the free culture movement, to be published in April and May. These essays, by artists, activists and academics will provide the coherent, accessible introdu
Free Culture Foundation - Activists, artists and academics broaden the debate about free cultureThe Free Culture Foundation has commissioned a set of essays examining issues at the heart of the free culture movement, to be published in April and May. These essays, by artists, activists and academics will provide the coherent, accessible introduction to the free culture movement that the FCF promised upon its launch.
- "In this tutorial you will learn how to interface with an AT25HP512 Atmel serial EEPROM using the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) protocol."
- Writing to the Arduino's onboard flash memory.
- "Alexis Lloyd has created a mini-database of outdoor advertising in different New York neighborhoods;"
