Just RGB, and a fairly baroque interface, but it works.
c-r, r, 8, g, 1, b, 1 gets the colour you see in the screenshot.
q to exit colour selection (actually you can select tools and that seems to work OK).
t-p to draw with the colour using the pen.
Writing this (2.5 hours) reveals that the keymap interface needs rationalising. As in “making rational”. 🙂
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Star and polygon added.
The drawing tools just pick up the colour of the last square drawn by Subjects. 🙂
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Collective authorship site for novels, via Lessig:
Update: And of course it’s NC. Grrr.
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Circle, square, rectangle and polyline join pen and Subjects:
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Click on images for links.
Chris Ashley:
Christian Marclay:
Ghost Box:
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You can’t copyright performances because they don’t have a fixed form. Of course you could try recording the performance in Labanotation to have a score to claim performances are a derivative of, but that would be silly.
As with many other kinds of creativity that doesn’t stop people trying to act as if there was some inalienable, unquestionable right that the fairies give you for your genius:
Pity the avant garde performance artist! Marina Abramovic has carved a star into her stomach, fasted for ten days while living on a shelf in a Chelsea art gallery, and stood mute in an Italian gallery while random visitors were invited to do anything to her body with knives, scissors and needles. Very edgy, very calculated to shock. But the ultimate taboo, one that even provocateur Abramovic declined to challenge, was….art as private property.
http://onthecommons.org/node/735
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Here’s a minara tool that draws random squares, named “Subjects” in honour of my old program of the same name. To load it, pop this in your .minara file and press t,s . Then click for squares. 🙂 :
;; -*-Scheme-*-
;; Subjects
(define $subject-size 20.0)
(define $subject-size/2 (/ $subject-size
2))
(define (random-colour)
(format #f "(set-colour ~f ~f ~f 0.0)"
(random 1.0)
(random 1.0)
(random 1.0)))
(define (subject buffer x-pos y-pos)
(let* ((x (+ (- x-pos
$subject-size/2)
(random $subject-size)))
(y (+ (- y-pos
$subject-size/2)
(random $subject-size)))
(top (+
y $subject-size/2))
(left (- x
$subject-size/2))
(bottom (- y
$subject-size/2))
(right (+ x
$subject-size/2)))
(format #f
"~a~%(path-begin)~%(move-to ~f ~f)~%(line-to ~f ~f)~%(line-to ~f ~f)~%(line-to ~f ~f)~%(path-end)~%"
(random-colour)
left
bottom
left
top
right
top
right
bottom)))
(define (subjects-mouse-up win button x y)
(let* ((window (window-for-id win))
(main-buffer (window-buffer-main window)))
(do ((i 0 (+ i 1)))
((> i 10))
(buffer-insert-undoable main-buffer
#f
(subject main-buffer
(window-view-x window
x)
(window-view-y window
y))))
(buffer-undo-mark main-buffer)
(buffer-invalidate main-buffer))
(window-redraw win))
;; Install
(define (subjects-tool-install)
(add-mouse-up-hook subjects-mouse-up))
;; Uninstall
(define (subjects-tool-uninstall)
(remove-mouse-up-hook subjects-mouse-up))
;; Register
(install-tool subjects-tool-install
subjects-tool-uninstall
"Subjects"
"t" "s")
One objection I’ve always had to the “tragedy of the commons” idea is that historical commons were community-managed resources. That doesn’t fit with the standard narrative so people tend to ignore it. But here’s a Flash animation that illustrates what they’re ignoring:
Interactive: The Tragedy of the Commons
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[…]culture is a shared endeavor. Artistic innovation, creative communities, culture – none could work without an open commons of access and sharing. (Did Susan Meisalas pay the Catholic Church for her depiction of the cross, or Pepsi for depicted its trademarked can?)
An absolute lockup of a creative work – requiring advance permission and payment to use or re-use – is not only impossible in the digital age. It flouts the social identity of art works. A work has no meaning or emotional resonances without a social community. And future progress requires access and re-use.
“Clearance Culture” Vs. Creative Freedom at On The Commons.
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