“How Copyright Restrictions Suppress Art” and other links…
kfogel: “After pouring three years of her life into making the film, and having great success with audiences at festival screenings, she now can’t distribute it, because of music licensing issues: the film uses songs recorded in the late 1920’s by singer Annette Hanshaw, and although the recordings are out of copyright, the compositions themselves are still restricted. That means if you want to make a film using these songs from the 1920s, you have to pay money—a lot of money (around $50,000.00).”
carlosulloa.com
carlosulloa.com: This site came to me from the Blender Conference 2008. It’s been quite awhile since I have been impressed with a Flash site. Instead of experiencing a Flash animation the interaction gives you a true 3D car that’s controlled with arrow keys.
Mr.doob | Omega Code Visualiser
Mr.doob: This Flash site, also coming through Blender Conference 2008, shows how audio can be visualized in real-time, 3D renderings. I assume that the audio data is read live and is rendered on the fly.
Infinite Canvas: Zoomable Web Comics from Live Labs
Sarah Perez: “Infinite Canvas is a side project from Microsoft Live Labs, but one which isn’t listed on the main Live Labs web site. The project, created by Ian Gilman, is a zoomable web comic creator/viewer…”
Wikipedia.org Moment: Arshile Gorky
“Gorky fled Van in 1915 during the Armenian Genocide and escaped with his mother and his three sisters into Russian-controlled territory. In the aftermath of the genocide, Gorky’s mother died of starvation in Yerevan in 1919. Gorky was reunited with his father when he arrived in America in 1920, aged 16, but they never grew close. At age 31, Gorky married. He changed his name to Arshile Gorky, in the process reinventing his identity…”
Charles Wright, Novelist, Dies at 76
Bruce Weber: “Charles Wright, who wrote three autobiographical novels about black street life in New York City between 1963 and 1973 that seemed to herald the rise of an important literary talent but who vanished into alcoholism and despair and never published another book, died on Oct. 1 in Manhattan. He was 76 and lived in the East Village.”