went to see some free talks today by some of the leaders in terms of thinking about copyright laws and reforms, including Lawrence Lessig and Joichi Ito, both of whom were very good
and interesting.
you can check out a flash presentation of a Lessig lecture from 2002 here, talking about the idea of free culture. it's a bit old, but still really interesting.
since then he's extended his ideas to found the creative commons system of licensing (some rights reserved, rather than all rights), which is really interesting too, and something i'm gonna try to take advantage of, if my band ever gets anything recorded.
then we went to this awesome little function room/gallery/warehouse/everything place to do an interview with Mark Pesce on open source television. coolest room i've seen for a long time. their
lounge area is made up of train seat from the old carriages that have been refurbished. they've got about six rows laid out as they'd be on the train, with window sized cityscapes painted on the wall.. so cool.
now that my political propaganda is out of the way, i'm listening to squarepusher. yay. i've also been watching robot chicken and voltron. new garbage album is kinda boring (aside from the
title track), new limp bizkit album is guiltily enjoyable (if only fred durst wasn't so annoying...), and jakalope are really growing on me. murder by death are still amazing, as are circle takes the square and the blood brothers.
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