Re-Vlog :: DIY DAYS PHL - Nina Paley - Nina Sings The Blues

SITA SINGS THE BLUES Distribution Project Report ?If it?s free, how do you make money?? 5 months after the Creative Commons Share Alike release of her animated musical feature Sita Sings the Blues, Nina Paley presents the first round of hard data from the project. Contrary to MPAA propaganda, the more the audience freely shares the film, the more they purchase DVDs, theater admissions, and merchandise; witness the $$ numbers that prove it. Nina Paley is the creator of the animated musical feature film Sita Sings the Blues, which has screened in over 150 film festivals and won over 30 international awards including the Annecy Grand Crystal, The IFFLA Grand Jury Prize, and a Gotham Award. Her adventures in our broken copyright system led her to Copyleft her film, and join QuestionCopyright.org as Artist-in-Residence. She teaches at Parsons School of Design and is a 2006 Guggenheim Fellow. www.sitasingstheblues.com

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), MP3 Audio (.mp3), Flash Video (.flv)

Tags: nina paley, diydays, fhta, workbook project, sita sings the blues, copyright

Re-vlogging Lawrence Lessig :: THE Idea for the 21st Century

Okay. I tend toward hyperbole, but this is honestly one of the best ideas toward action and change I've heard lately.

Unsurprisingly, this comes from the same fellow who gave us one of the best ideas of the 20th Century: the Creative Commons.

Listen.

Then listen again.

[Lessig's Blog]
[Lessig RSS Feed]
[Quicktime version]


Tags: Faux Press Art Metaphrasty

Re-Vlog :: Love Medicine

Ms. Sanders speaks succinctly & softly to wounds and healing through art & consciousness.

Difficult to visualize the body as sacred.

Orgasm as sacred.

Whew.

Working on a video art piece that deals with body image and will post tomorrow.

SPOILER: In the meantime, if you're squicked by gentle, soothing words on the subject of the body, you should not play this fine piece.

Ancient wisdom.



Tags: Faux Press Art Metaphrasty

VlogEurope 2007 :: Aske Dam :: Keynote :: Excerpt

.:. Faux Press .:.

Aske Dam's Keynote.

Excerpt filmed via external iSight webcam to MacBook w/Quicktime Pro 7.X

Raw.

Compressed to 320x240.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: vlogeurope, vlogeurope07, aske, dam, keynote, faux_press

TED :: Passion :: Pay More

Technology, Entertainment, Design.

TED.

Only the best and brightest lights in each category.

How exciting is that? Damnably exciting.

Enabling METAPHRASTY.

From the TEDtalks site on the enclosed Richard St. John audio:

Why do people succeed? Because they're smart? Or lucky? How about: Neither. Richard St. John compacts seven years of research on successful people into an unmissable 3-minute slideshow on the real secrets of success (Hint: passion, persistence, and pushy mothers help). Richard St. John is author of Stupid, Ugly, Unlucky and RICH: What really leads to success -- and it's not smarts, looks, or luck. He's also founder of the communications agency, The St John Group.

Why is this post linked with the "Pay More" concept? Because tickets for TED '08 are $6,000.00

"PAY MORE"

[TED website]
[TED Audio/Video - 2007]
[NY Times piece on TED]
[TED Blog feed - includes a weekly audio/video post]


Tags: Faux Press Art Metaphrasty

Little Things That Jiggle: Richard Feynman and Atomic Physics

As I've said in these pages before, Richard Feynman is quite a guy. Wish he was still alive so I could meet and hang out with him.

Short film on Richard Feynman's famous quip about fundamental physics as seen via quantum mechanics. Touches upon Einstein's E=MC2, Newton's law of gravity and the motion of planets, and the future of science.

Anice Jeffries - "The Inner-net"

Found and wanted to share this manifesto for new media / The Faux Press.

When I called my dear friend Anice today to share this manifesto with her - a woman who studied with Terrence McKenna - she remarked how the 'inner-net' was working well since in the last 24 hours she too had found and been watching McKenna's videos.

She and I also recommend the videoworks of Eckhart Tolle, whose works I'd also discovered in recent days, thanks to Clark ov Saturn's ZipZapZop.tv

Clark's collecting interesting 'inner-net' works so we don't have to.

Tags: Faux Press Innernet

The Faux Press in Second Life: Lawrence Lessig :: Second Life

The Faux Press in Second Life: Lawrence Lessig :: Second Life

Okay - so I've opened a new vlogspot for the machinima.

There you have it - you heard it here more or less first.

XOXOX

Vlog Soho

A Vlogger event @ the Soho Apple Store July 8. If you're curious about videoblogging, you should go there.

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Faux Press Podcast: "The Universe in a Glass of Wine" - Richard Feynman

Physicist Richard Feynman

Found this audio today HERE, and couldn't resist sharing it. Like a good meal, this audio clip has all the right flavors to satisfy the aural appetite.

"The Universe in a Glass of Wine"

"A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." We will probably never know in what sense he said that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look in glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe.

"There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the reflections in the glass, and our imagination adds the atoms. The glass is a distillation of the earth's rocks, and in its composition we see the secrets of the universe's age, and the evolution of the stars. What strange array of chemicals are in the wine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products. There in wine is found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. Nobody can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering the cause of much disease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it!

"If in our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts - physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on - remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let us give one more final pleasure: drink it and forget it all!

"Physics is like sex; sure, you can get some interesting results, but that's not why we do it." - Richard Feynman, physicist