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Creative Commons @ BBC
FREE PUBLIC TALK The BBC’s Creative Archive Project: New Approaches to Accessing Creative Content with Paula Le Dieu Garden’s Point Theatre, QUT, 5.30pm to 7.00pm Wednesday, 2 March 2005 The BBC’s announcement that it will release archived material under Creative Commons styled licences has captured worldwide attention. Paula Le Dieu has been at the centre…
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for my useful box – an archive of apple TV commercials
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From Bollywood Heaven to Thesis Hell
So last night saw me at the opening of Brisbane’s Bollywood Masala film festival at the Dendy, which kicked off with the very well-known Main Hoon Na. I ask you, what more could you want in a Bollywood film – witty, self-referential, and seething with intertextuality, and packed to the rafters with military heroes, action-adventure,…
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numanumaye!! (embedded video – turn on your speakers)
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CFP: DAC 2005
CFP: Digital Arts and Cultures (DAC) 2005: Digital Experience: Design, Aesthetics, Practice, 1st – 3rd December, 2005, IT University, Copenhagen, Denmark. Hmmmmm….Copenhagen!
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videoblogging starts to hit it
To look at properly later (seems way too interesting to allow myself to play with it now): mefeedia – a web-based videoblog aggregator, and ANTnotTV – funky desktop videoblog aggregator (Mac OS X) – thanks adrian for keeping me up to date with the exploding world of vlog distribution.
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Microcosmographia Academica
My good friend and open source crusader David Berry has taken the time to turn a plain text version of F.M. Conford’s famous 1908 satire on university politics, Microcosmographia Academica, into a much prettier pdf version. Choice cuts: 0 young academic politician, my heart is full of pity for you now; but when you are…
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Hypercreativity and Techno-Utopianism
So, the puzzle my Phd tries to solve (how creativity, cultural participation and the ‘democratization’ of technologies fit together) comes out of the hype around two converging ideas: the increased availability and production power of digital technologies for content creation and distribution (see Anne’s pointed mini-critique of some of this) and ‘creativity’ as life-fulfilling, as…
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Creativity, play and communication
Thinking aloud here about some stuff that occurred to me while continuing to read Speaking into the Air this morning. You probably won’t want to read this unless you live inside my PhD with me (messy in there, isn’t it?). These thoughts also go some way to explaining what I was getting at with my…
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Dynamite, anyone?
Seems “propaganda of the deed” is already a slogan: Propaganda of the Deed or Propaganda by Deed was an anarchist doctrine that promoted the decisive action of individuals to inspire further action by others. As a doctrine-in-practise, its heyday was the period between 1881 and 1901, starting with the assassinations of Russian tzar Alexander and…