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Aesthetics Free Culture

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog: Media: John K’s Storyboard For Stimpy’s Invention

ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive Project Blog: Media: John K’s Storyboard For Stimpy’s Invention

Note: this post is tagged free culture but the images in the link are not free. 

“Stimpy’s Invention” is a very funny episode of “Ren and Stimpy”, the cartoon show that launched the postmodern cartoon genre before being ruined by a change of creative team.
The storyboards are the source code for the cartoon. Well, one of the source codes: the pencil rough animation would be something to see as well. If you’re familiar with the episode you can see its the lyrical rhythm and flow even in these still images. And if you’re not familiar with it, then you still can. 🙂
These are beautiful drawings, and it is a privilege to be able to see them. Which is a shame, as there are so many drawings that we do not have that privilege for.

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Free Culture

Free Culture Roundup

The Open University in the UK (very good for MBAs apparently) are becoming the first in the UK to offer open content under a Creative Commons Licence:

http://oci.open.ac.uk/pressrelease.html

OK so the Creative Commons licenses look good, but has one ever been tested in a court of law? Yes. And it won:

http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/cc-community/2006-March/000984.html

Our taxes fund the collection of public data – yet we pay again to access it.
Make the data freely available to stimulate innovation, argue Charles Arthur
and Michael Cross.

http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1726229,00.html

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Aesthetics Generative Art Reviews

Benjamin Edwards : Works, Projects, Archive

Benjamin Edwards : Works, Projects, Archive

Wow, wow wow!

This is brilliant!

Excellent post-digital art with an architectural and iconographic emphasis, with lots of public domain illustrations as source material.

Take a look!

Via Happy Famous Artists.

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Free Culture

Thought For The Day

Free society needs free culture.

Free culture needs free networks.

Free networks need free software.

Free software needs free hardware.

Free hardware needs free society.

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Howto

Various Games To Look At

http://www.wunderland.com/icehouse/Default.html
http://www.zoki.com/
http://www.dvorakgame.co.uk/
http://www.eblong.com/zarf/werewolf.html

http://www.cricro.com/smartdice.html
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/viewitem.php3?gameid=4474

http://www.wunderland.com/LooneyLabs/Fluxx/Default.html
http://www.piecepack.org/
http://www.tjgames.com/

http://kennexions.ludism.org/old/kenning.html

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Free Culture

Commons Enterprise Working Group

Commons Enterprise Working Group:
Many business, non-profit and public projects use creative commons licenced works to accomplish their mission. A substantial number of these the non-profit and public projects are interested in some type of revenue generation from work under creative commons licences, to ensure sustainability of the projects. These projects are all commons enterprises.
These projects face a number of common challenges including; devising revenue generation models, potential liability for infringement of work by others and possible infringement of the cc licenced work by other people. The learning curve is steep, so to aid us Creative Commons has created a group to discuss these various challenges, sharing experiences and questions from the full range of commons enterprises. Sharing information on commons challenges across a wide spectrum will facilitate mutual learning.

Issues to be discussed include:

  • Revenue generation models

  • marketing commons enterprises

  • Managing diverse licences in composite works

  • Potential risks in revenue generation models including:

  • Potential liability for copyright infringement of others works

  • Infringement of cc licenced works by third parties

  • New challenges to commons enterprises

The group will not discuss collecting society issues, or issues dealt with by other work groups except in sharing practical strategies in dealing with challenges while long term solutions are being devised.
To subscribe go to http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-enterprise

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Aesthetics

Gismu Glyph

http://www.ludism.org/gbgwiki/GismuGlyph  

Lojban calligrams for a Glass Bead Game implementation.

Excellent.

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Free Culture

Creative Commons Is Broken, Allegedly

http://www.sourcelabs.com/blogs/ajb/2006/02/creative_commons_is_broken.html

A thoughtful critique of Creative Commons.

Two points in response to this:

1. CC have worked very hard to produce a definition of “NonCommercial”. It is excellent and they are just soliciting feedback before finalising it. See:

http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/5752

2. A good example of derivation from CC work can be found here 🙂 :

http://OFFLINEZIP.wpsho/canto 

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Free Culture

OpenBusiness Survey

The OpenBusiness survey I mentioned is back. And this time you could win an iPod! See:

http://www.openbusiness.cc/2006/03/06/win-an-ipod-from-us/

And they have one of my images from 1969 on their gallery page (along with lots of other good stuff):

http://www.openbusiness.cc/uk/art-gallery-2/

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Aesthetics Satire

Forget Duchamp

LA Time’s rips into Thomas Kinkade AKA “Painter of Light”

Kinkade is the anti-Koons. I once watched him on a shopping channel pitching his DNA-ink encrusted encrustations. For hours. I was drunk. I don’t know what his excuse was. Duchamp just exhibited a urinal. Kinkade pissed on Winnie-The-Pooh. In Disneyland. Allegedly.

This reminds me of Wright of Derby’s paintings of a tranquil cottage and the same cottage at fire at night:

Photoshop fun with Kinkade paintings