Posts Tagged ‘Creative Commons’

99 Percent Sweat

Posted on February 10th, 2010 • Filed under Uncategorized • 1 Comment

“Genius is 1% inspiration, and 99% perspiration” – Thomas Edison Don’t let that quote, the inspiration of the conference 99%, lead you to believe that this is anything less than creative. Just take a look at the list of speakers, past and present. Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, the President of RISD John Maeda , Scott Thomas who was design director for Obama for America. It’s one thing to be a creative thinker. It’s another thing to be creative AND productive. Kudos to our art department for always impressing me there. But I see a lot of creative energy elsewhere frittered away and it makes me sad. Yes, I will acknowledge there are a lot of bad ideas flying around, but the good ones… the good ones shouldn’t die because we don’t know what to do with them. So check out the site for the 99% conference, and if you go, would you… um… let me know how it was? 99% April 15-16 The Times Center New York City [link]

 

Lets Take the High Line

Posted on September 6th, 2009 • Filed under Uncategorized • No Comments

The High Line is just around the corner from our offices, currently located in the Chelsea Market, and I finally made my way there for a walking tour. I shot a few photos while I was there but these pics from the High Line Flickr Pool provide a little more variety – but what’s up with the copyright on all these pics from the Flickr Pool. None of them have a Creative Commons license. None!

There’s more going on besides a walk on the High Line. Check out highline.org for events happening in and around the park.

 

SORRY WE’RE CLOSED

Posted on April 22nd, 2009 • Filed under Uncategorized • No Comments

I came across this store window exhibit by Claire Fontaine. There’s an arts festival in Brussels starting next week, which has provided several occasions for me to see some of the preparation, but I especially liked this piece.

All images on the website are copyrighted by the gallery and the artist, so I went back to take a shot of the store front window myself. This is a good example of how being too protective over property forces inferior representations of the work. Creative Commons licensing makes sense for providing a level of control  over the usage of images rather than just saying ” No unauthorized use may be made of the images“.

I’ve always wanted to create a service that would match artists and retail space owners. It would be great opportunity for promotion for both parties. Sorry Claire, I didn’t mean to reduce your wonderful work down to a capitalist opportunity. Here’s a little something about the work:

The sculpture exhibited in the window Untitled (flag dryer) composed of a modified industrial dryer and of several Belgian flags tackles the cycle and the stagnation as typical aspects of the rags of any national identity. The continuous drying of the flags is in the same time a bitter consideration about corruption and a comment on the Belgian habit of displaying the national flag outside apartment windows; this action is compared to the one of hanging out the washing, that even if not dirty, would be better far from the eyes of the passerby.

SORRY WE’RE CLOSED [Claire FONTAINE]

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