June 2010 Calendar

Please click HERE to access the download page for the calendar.

"It [the sound] is the simultaneous awareness of the knower and the known." -- Shariyat-Ki-Sugmad, Bk1 Ch9

Walking On Eggshells: Borrowing Culture in the Remix Age

"Walking on Eggshells" is a 24-minute documentary about appropriation, creative influence, re-use and intellectual property in the remix age. It is a conversation among various musicians, visual artists, writers and lawyers, all sharing their views on why and how we use and create culture, and how intellectual property law, originally designed to provide people with incentives to create, sometimes hinders creative production far more than it enhances it.

This film is our final project for the seminar "Intellectual Property in the Digital Age" at Yale University.

Video is part 1 of 3


Video part 2


Video part 3

Future Shock (1972)

Too much change in too short a time.

Future Shock is based on the book with the same name by Alvin Toffler back in 1972. Orson Welles narrates and proceeds to explain the future automations, artificial intelligence, heart transplants, face lifts, manipulating skin color, temporary body parts, nomadic societies with robot as servants and an abundance of information that society can long longer process nor digest. The temporary, the death of permanence "just as things and places flow through our lives at high speed, so do people, long-term commitments are not expected ..."




(It switches to the next part when this part is watched. Each part is about 10 minutes long.)
LINK to all 5 videos

Up There

Up There is the story of the fading tradition of hand painted outside advertising. LINK to the homepage.

Direct-link to video