Archive for November, 2008
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Alexandre Orion – Skulls in Sao Paolo A few years ago he…
Alexandre Orion – Skulls in Sao Paolo
A few years ago he adorned a transport tunnel in Sao Paolo with a mural consisting of a series of skulls to remind drivers of the detrimental impact their emissions have on the planet.
The Brazilian authorities were incensed but couldn’t actually charge him with anything so they instead cleaned the tunnel. At first the cleaned only the parts Alexandre had cleared but after the artist switched to the opposite wall they had to clean that too. In the end, the authorities decided to wash every tunnel in the city, missing the irony completely, it seems.
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
These signs were put up around Los Angeles as a public art…
These signs were put up around Los Angeles as a public art piece.
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Sunday, November 23rd, 2008
Graffiti artist Banksy pulls off most audacious stunt to date -…
Graffiti artist Banksy pulls off most audacious stunt to date - despite being watched by CCTV
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Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
30 Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials
30 Photoshop Text Effects Tutorials
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Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
Material slicker than Teflon discovered by accident
Material slicker than Teflon discovered by accident
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Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
“Hot with the chance of late storm” - The Glue…
“Hot with the chance of late storm” - The Glue Society
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Kaltura
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Cup Of Brown Joy - Elemental
Cup Of Brown Joy - Elemental
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
Content: Selected Essays, Cory Doctorow
Content: Selected Essays, Cory Doctorow
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Monday, November 17th, 2008
“The Internet is a system for efficiently making copies between computers. Whereas a conversation in…”
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The Internet is a system for efficiently making copies between computers. Whereas a conversation in your kitchen involves mere perturbations of air by noise, the same conversation on the net involves making thousands of copies. Every time you press a key, the keypress is copied several times on your computer, then copied into your modem, then copied onto a series of routers, thence (often) to a server, which may make hundreds of copies both ephemeral and long-term, and then to the other party(ies) to the conversation, where dozens more copies might be made.
Copyright law valorizes copying as a rare and noteworthy event. On the Internet, copying is automatic, massive, instantaneous, free, and constant. Clip a Dilbert cartoon and stick it on your office door and you’re not violating copyright. Take a picture of your office door and put it on your homepage so that the same co-workers can see it, and you’ve violated copyright law, and since copyright law treats copying as such a rarified activity, it assesses penalties that run to the hundreds of thousands of dollars for each act of infringement.
There’s a word for all the stuff we do with creative works — all the conversing, retelling, singing, acting out, drawing, and thinking: we call it culture.
Culture’s old. It’s older than copyright.
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