Comments on: The BBC and technodemocracy http://creativitymachine.net/2005/03/04/the-bbc-and-technodemocracy/ Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:21:13 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Christian McCrea http://creativitymachine.net/2005/03/04/the-bbc-and-technodemocracy/comment-page-1/#comment-277 Christian McCrea Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://creativitymachine.net/2005/03/04/the-bbc-and-technodemocracy/#comment-277 The original BBC Micro become synonymous with DIY media - the computer you had "to do things with", so the link seems very natural. That's wonderful news about the BBC opening up the books, even if it takes ages and doesn't work, there needs to be a symbolic push against the DVD mentality of media collectorship. I goddamned heart your blog this week. Look up the Goldie Lookin' Chain song, "Half-Man, Half-Machine", has the lines "Being a robot in my digital domain / Enter my world, feel my pain / I'm not like other people you might see or you might know / I made love to a BBC Micro / touch it on the disk drive / the monitor got hot / that's when I knew I was a motherfucken robot" The original BBC Micro become synonymous with DIY media – the computer you had “to do things with”, so the link seems very natural. That’s wonderful news about the BBC opening up the books, even if it takes ages and doesn’t work, there needs to be a symbolic push against the DVD mentality of media collectorship.

I goddamned heart your blog this week.

Look up the Goldie Lookin’ Chain song, “Half-Man, Half-Machine”, has the lines “Being a robot in my digital domain / Enter my world, feel my pain /
I’m not like other people you might see or you might know / I made love to a BBC Micro / touch it on the disk drive / the monitor got hot / that’s when I knew I was a motherfucken robot”

]]> By: mc gregg http://creativitymachine.net/2005/03/04/the-bbc-and-technodemocracy/comment-page-1/#comment-278 mc gregg Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://creativitymachine.net/2005/03/04/the-bbc-and-technodemocracy/#comment-278 Thanks for sharing yr notes Jean. I really wanted to go! Is there any likelihood of archiving of this kind in Australia? I guess there wasn't much talk about that? For my own future work I want to be able to access advertisements for media software and hardware in TV and print. It's much different content, but maybe readers here would know if anything like that exists? Thanks for sharing yr notes Jean. I really wanted to go! Is there any likelihood of archiving of this kind in Australia? I guess there wasn’t much talk about that? For my own future work I want to be able to access advertisements for media software and hardware in TV and print. It’s much different content, but maybe readers here would know if anything like that exists?

]]> By: Jean http://creativitymachine.net/2005/03/04/the-bbc-and-technodemocracy/comment-page-1/#comment-279 Jean Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://creativitymachine.net/2005/03/04/the-bbc-and-technodemocracy/#comment-279 Christian: will race to find that song, how fucking cool! thanks for hearting anything I write, I really need it at the moment. Mel: Well, there's ACRA: http://www.uq.edu.au/acro/ which takes stuff "off the cutting floor" e.g. surplus footage and makes it available using CC licenses; as for advertising, there's the prelinger archive and other OS video at www.archive.org, and some commercial providers (e.g. catering to ad industry types who want to see what the competition's been up to) but it's damn hard to find australian stuff - I need some too for my PhD so yeah, if anyone out there knows... Christian: will race to find that song, how fucking cool! thanks for hearting anything I write, I really need it at the moment.

Mel: Well, there’s ACRA: http://www.uq.edu.au/acro/
which takes stuff “off the cutting floor” e.g. surplus footage and makes it available using CC licenses; as for advertising, there’s the prelinger archive and other OS video at http://www.archive.org, and some commercial providers (e.g. catering to ad industry types who want to see what the competition’s been up to) but it’s damn hard to find australian stuff – I need some too for my PhD so yeah, if anyone out there knows…

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