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Science is awesome. mizzchelle: A poster inspired by...

Jennifer Proctor — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:23:51 -0500

Science *is* awesome.

A poster inspired by yesterday’s amazing marshmallow cannon situation. Obama’s mouth has never been so agape. (via shortformblog)

Great. And love the moving comic book...

Jennifer Proctor — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:00:24 -0500

Great. And love the moving comic book style.

edwardspoonhands:

weasleycansaveanything:

John Green: GAY is NOT an INSULT (x)

EPIC SET. Thanks for doing this…whoever did it.

And on YouTube. starwarsuncut: Star Wars Uncut: Director’s...

Jennifer Proctor — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 12:34:09 -0500

And on YouTube.

starwarsuncut:

Star Wars Uncut: Director’s Cut

Finally, the crowd-sourced project has been stitched together and put online for your streaming pleasure. The Director’s Cut is a feature-length film that contains hand-picked scenes from the entire StarWarsUncut.com collection.

Many thanks to Aaron Valdez (video editor) and Bryan Pugh (sound design/mixing) for the countless hours they put into this masterpiece.

The Story:

In 2009, thousands of Internet users were asked to remake “Star Wars: A New Hope” into a fan film, 15 seconds at a time. Contributors were allowed to recreate scenes from Star Wars however they wanted. Within just a few months SWU grew into a wild success. The creativity that poured into the project was unimaginable.

SWU has been featured in documentaries, news features and conferences around the world for its unique appeal. In 2010 we won a Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Creative Achievement In Interactive Media.

We can’t thank everyone enough for making this such a special project.

Watch it now.

Start with a blank image, ask Google Image search for similar...

Jennifer Proctor — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:15:52 -0500

Start with a blank image, ask Google Image search for similar images, take the top result and repeat. Fascinating!

Search by Image, Recursively, Transparent PNG, #1 (by kingcosmonaut3000)

I don’t love everything Pogo does, but this and Alice are...

Jennifer Proctor — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 11:34:21 -0500

I don’t love everything Pogo does, but this and Alice are fantastic.

thedailywhat:

Fresh Remix of the Day: Pogo returns to remix the “voices and beats” of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

You can pick up the MP3 here.

[fagottron.]

Wonderful! dvdp: “Tape Recorders” (2011) by Rafael...

Jennifer Proctor — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:17:10 -0500

Wonderful!

dvdp:

“Tape Recorders” (2011) by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

“Rows of motorised measuring tapes record the amount of time that visitors stay in the installation. As a computerised tracking system detects the presence of a person, the closest measuring tape starts to project upwards. When the tape reaches around 3m high it crashes and recoils back.”

Aye-aye-aye-aye… work out. thedailywhat: Seriously Funny...

Jennifer Proctor — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 20:29:59 -0500

Aye-aye-aye-aye… work out.

thedailywhat:

Seriously Funny Dramatic Reading of the Day: Ira David Wood, Executive Director of Raleigh’s Theatre in the Park (and Evan Rachel Wood’s dad), dramatically reads the sh*t out of LMFAO’s “Sexy and I Know It.” (Skip to 1:07.)

[mefi.]

filmstudiesryangosling:

Jennifer Proctor — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:07:12 -0500

filmstudiesryangosling:

Very interesting. futurejournalismproject: Steve Jobs Doll...

Jennifer Proctor — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:21:50 -0500

Very interesting.

futurejournalismproject:

Steve Jobs Doll Legal In Most States, Not Indiana

Oh the irony. Apple, notorious for suing anyone and everyone over intellectual property issues, may not be able to prevent a Steve Jobs doll from being sold in most US states.

Via paidContent:

Apple’s lawyers have a fearsome reputation for defending the company’s intellectual property. But it sure looks like they’re bluffing in the controversy over a new Steve Jobs doll.

A UK newspaper caused a stir yesterday when it reported that Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) had threatened legal action against a Chinese company that plans to sell an eerie replica of its late founder starting next month. The Daily Telegraph said Apple claims to own rights to Jobs’ likeness…

Dead or not, Steve Jobs is still huge news and the story went viral. Media outlets, noting that Apple had stopped the release of another Jobs doll in 2010, reported the story as a warning to other companies who would dare appropriate the property of mighty Apple.

But there is a huge problem here—Apple’s legal claim is largely bogus. While people can indeed own rights to their likeness, those rights usually apply only to living people. Unlike other forms of intellectual property like patents or copyrights, image rights do not survive beyond the grave in most places.

Under American law, so-called “personality rights” exist only at the state level—there is no federal law. And only about a dozen states recognize image rights after death. Oddly, it is Indiana that has the strongest protection, restricting commercial use of a person’s image for 100 years after their passing.

But in New York and most other places, there is no protection at all. This was confirmed five years when a court in the state found that no one had the exclusive right to market Marilyn Monroe. Efforts to change the law have so far failed.

What this means is that Apple’s warning about the doll is an empty threat in most places. It may not even be able to stop others from using the name Steve Jobs as, surprisingly, the term does not appear on the company’s long list of registered trademarks.

I love this so much (MissB: It’s...

Jennifer Proctor — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 22:33:31 -0500

I love this so much (MissB: It’s Rihanna!)

thedailywhat:

ICWUDT of the Day: A Facebook thread in a pokeless place.

(Do better below.)

[peetaah / ratsoff / context.]

"The problem, though, is that while I can appreciate YouTube videos on the basis of YouTube criteria,..."

Jennifer Proctor — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:00:41 -0500

“The problem, though, is that while I can appreciate YouTube videos on the basis of YouTube criteria, and art videos on the basis of art criteria, there’s a bunch of stuff that’s way too boring to be on YouTube, but not quite intentional enough to make the leap to art. To steal a term from robotics, there’s an uncanny valley – a point where a video resembles both YouTube clips and video art so closely as to make the (art-aware) viewer uncomfortable [2]. For an artwork, this is a very bad place to be.”

- An important set of questions posed by the rise of YouTube as a venue for video.

The Uncanny Valley of “Electrocuted Squirrel” (via porcupineschool)

Wish I knew the source.

Jennifer Proctor — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 09:04:00 -0500

Wish I knew the source.

Photo

Jennifer Proctor — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:39:22 -0500

"Our culture is marketing, this is what we do, and what is marketing? Trying to get people to do what..."

Jennifer Proctor — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:56:51 -0500

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Our culture is marketing, this is what we do, and what is marketing? Trying to get people to do what you want them to. It’s what drives our consumer culture, it’s what drives our politics, it’s what drives our art. Music, movies, books, fine arts, it’s part of every research grant proposal. I don’t want to participate. I don’t want to tell you how to sell a screenplay or tell you how to write a hit, or tell you how to fit into the existing system. I want to tell you that I have a hope that there’s another way to be in this world, and that I believe with courage, vulnerability and honesty that the stuff we put into the world can serve a better purpose.

The way movies work now, and I’m talking about mainstream industry, the only goal is to get you to buy a product. The only goal. THE only goal. The ONLY goal. THE ONLY GOAL. And this intention creates the movies that we sit through, and the movies that we sit through create us. In government we’ve been reduced to the same game, through trickery, obfuscation, bullying, fear mongering. The goal of marketing a candidate is achieved. I don’t understand many things, I don’t know as much as I’d like about anything, but I’m a human being and I won’t be in competition for the right to be treated decently.

I won’t play that game. Nor should anybody have to. And in turn I will try not to use whatever access I have to the public sphere to sell things, including myself. The world is very scary now. It always has been. But something grotesque and specific to our time is blanketing us. We need to see that it is not reality, it is a choice we are making or allowing other people to make for us.

”

- Charlie Kaufman, BAFTA Screenwriters Lecture (via sunshinemakesmehigh)

lonelysandwich: feltron: Memo Atken I think this is what...

Jennifer Proctor — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 09:33:30 -0500

lonelysandwich:

feltron:

Memo Atken

I think this is what music sounds like to particles.

apoplecticskeptic: jayparkinsonmd: Hany Farid has come up with...

Jennifer Proctor — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:08:57 -0500

apoplecticskeptic:

jayparkinsonmd:

Hany Farid has come up with a nice solution to solve that self-esteem problem so many of us face when we see photos of beautiful people in magazines— use a computer algorithm to grade how much photoshop altering was used and mandate that every altered image is labeled with this grade. Level 1 is minute changes and 5 is fabricated fantasy.

This of course won’t solve our country’s self-esteem problem, but it’s an interesting way of raising awareness.

Photoshop and AutoTune have destroyed SO MUCH HUMANITY. Ugh. And I love using both tools… but like ~~most~~ all things in life: moderation moderation moderation.

The Bicycle Animation (by TheManimation)

Jennifer Proctor — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:26:43 -0500

The Bicycle Animation (by TheManimation)

Lovely. thejeffreytaylor: youhavetostartsomewhere: tilt Adore....

Jennifer Proctor — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 10:38:24 -0500

Lovely.

thejeffreytaylor:

youhavetostartsomewhere:

tilt

Adore.

Ah, the power of GIFs to make the world what it should...

Jennifer Proctor — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 09:31:37 -0500

Ah, the power of GIFs to make the world what it should be.

lulinternet:

lolpepperspray.gif

inspired this piece of genius

This video is tops. Midget Parkour & Freerunning (by...

Jennifer Proctor — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 20:59:34 -0500

This video is tops.

Midget Parkour & Freerunning (by 99timshi)

Nanoramas

Science *is* awesome. mizzchelle: A poster inspired by...

Great. And love the moving comic book...

And on YouTube. starwarsuncut: Star Wars Uncut: Director’s...

Start with a blank image, ask Google Image search for similar...

I don’t love everything Pogo does, but this and Alice are...

Wonderful! dvdp: “Tape Recorders” (2011) by Rafael...

Aye-aye-aye-aye… work out. thedailywhat: Seriously Funny...

filmstudiesryangosling:

Very interesting. futurejournalismproject: Steve Jobs Doll...

Steve Jobs Doll Legal In Most States, Not Indiana

I love this so much (MissB: It’s...

"The problem, though, is that while I can appreciate YouTube videos on the basis of YouTube criteria,..."

Wish I knew the source.

Photo

"Our culture is marketing, this is what we do, and what is marketing? Trying to get people to do what..."

lonelysandwich: feltron: Memo Atken I think this is what...

apoplecticskeptic: jayparkinsonmd: Hany Farid has come up with...

The Bicycle Animation (by TheManimation)

Lovely. thejeffreytaylor: youhavetostartsomewhere: tilt Adore....

Ah, the power of GIFs to make the world what it should...

This video is tops. Midget Parkour & Freerunning (by...

Science is awesome. mizzchelle: A poster inspired by...