“Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from “All Rights Reserved” to “Some Rights Reserved.”
As virtually everything is migrating to (at least) some form of shareable media, the line of what is “yours” and what is “theirs” is slowly being formed–or drawn. This video gives some insight through opinion on how creative commons works (and everything that surrounds it) is coming of age. It raises a few questions on how much should be shared, and exactly who should be the authority that designates such things. Creative Commons may just be the “stick it to the man” route to maintain the current state of the online community’s give-and-take nature– or perhaps not.
“This sort of odd, out-of-the-blue example is the perfect illustration of why OSC matters. Quietly, gradually, OSC is describing the world around computers in intelligent ways. In contrast to MIDI, with its resolution limits and arbitrary categories (vibrato rate?), OSC can standardize anything. What previously required advance standardization can now be truly open and even improvisational.”
With the most misleading name ever, Open Sound Control is about the most open-ended…processing/routing thing?…..I can’t even think of what to call it it’s so open ended. Put it this way, If you could write a program to make your laundry do itself, OSC would find a way to tell your laundry to get to work.
“Knee Deep invites children to jump in and explore unexpected worlds of different proportions with their feet. The installation combines real-time greenscreening, computer vision and stomp detection. Created in collaboration with Theodore Watson for the 2009 Cinekid festival in Amsterdam.”
A really simple integration if you think about it, but it’s well thought out. And theres no denying those kids aren’t having a blast.
“Sync/Lost is a multi-user installation for immersion in the history of electronic music. The installation can be used by three users simultaneously, with wiimote and headphones/soundspeakers.”
This was made with Processing, and successfully completes one of the conceptual thoughts that float around in some of our heads about music, our tastes and distastes, and the people around us. Intuitive and obscure – good stuff.
“360° “lenses” (which generally aren’t actually lenses, but spherical reflectors) are perfect for simple, single-shot video production. Especially given some inventive viewpoints, staging, or post-production.” -CDM
LOSER – Merlot from Julien Widmer on Vimeo.
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“One Life Stand” – Hot Chip from Sadhu on Vimeo.
My favorite find this week. I don’t know why we don’t see more creative work with the 360 lens, availability/price? Regardless, with something like Roundus.net so close to home, I hope these things start making an appearance around Lincoln(or at least let Hot Chip keep one for our entertainment).
Indie music portal TheSixtyOne launched a drastically redesigned website over the weekend. Loyal users were less than enthused, but something tells us they’ll get over it. Just take a look. The site is beautiful.
Out are the lists of songs, the blocks of text and the excessive number of buttons. In its place is a large centerpiece band photo with a few interactive buttons in the corners and pop-up song descriptions and relevant pictures overlaid on top. The ultra-simple design positions TheSixtyOne as the anti-MySpace. Both sites grew thanks to participation by unsigned and unknown bands looking to attract exposure.
While MySpace has tacked on an ever-growing list of features and overcomplicated layouts, TheSixtyOne strips out the junk and puts what’s important at the forefront — the song that’s currently playing. TheSixtyOne isn’t shy about distancing itself from MySpace. On its community etiquette page, the first bullet point under “please don’t” reads: ”Spam. There’s a great site for writing the same message over and over, ‘thanks for the add,’ and chain letters. It’s called MySpace.”– Mark Milian
I guess I’m one of the disgruntled users that they’re talking about in this post, but reading this article helped me to get over myself a little bit. I didn’t lose anything important, and I’m still finding new music through the site. The only difference is the dramatic change in how I’m listening to the music when I’ve got the page up- which from the picture you can see is all but modest. The pictures the artists choose are sometimes terrible, and sometimes great- both of them affecting how I’m listening, which is great because if I’m feeling very visual- I can just minimize.
“..the new, mobile Apple is doing immense harm to the computing legacy the company has forged. We could have had a Mac tablet today. Instead, we have a giant iPhone – and that’s a decision that has some serious repercussions. It’s a blow to open source alternatives, but also to open development in general: the power of interchangeable hardware and software, on which everything we do with music and visuals on computers is based. This is important to both CDMs, because it’s on both these sites that I, along with readers and contributors, have advocated open computing as a creative outlet, for creation, sharing, and distribution of music, visuals, and knowledge.”
I wonder exactly how long Apple can keep their touch technology to themselves without killing the image they attempt to portray–
I’ve already invested in other avenues for this kind of thing, which makes me all the bit more frustrated that people who have an interest in this sort of thing have to either get handy with their DIY or take a serious hit to their wallet before they can even really get any first hand exposure–after years of development. The iPad could be revolutionary– but it isn’t. It’s just mean to anyone who doesn’t have clown-sized pockets and no need for a an iPhone.
I thought this related pretty well with the kind of things we’re working on in class this week. Out of all the things to shine light through, this is probably one of the best DIY installations.
I couldn’t get the video to embed, so heres a screenshot of the website. I like how they actually update the video every hour, and considering the amount of time people spend on the internet its nice to see a website that is so responsive to the community (and their work paid off).
Calvin Harris – “Humanthesizer – the first human synth”
Calvin Harris – “Ready for the Weekend”
A very cool implementation of one the coolest ideas ever. I didn’t even know something like this could be done with paint (is it paint?). Below is the music video of the song he used this for. I like the first video, I don’t know why there wasn’t any emphasis on how they made that though.
