Together with Andrea Elliott a NYTimes Reporter and Reda Shata Sheikh they touch on The Abstract Concept of "America", Objective Media and the mutual fear that Muslim and American cultures have shared of each other in recent years.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Sunday, September 23, 2007
Billy Joel is awesome.
The first link that comes up when performing a Google search for "we didn't start the fire." Each segment of the lyrics links to a website dealing with that particular topic.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
THE ID PROJECT
"Based in New York City's East Village, The Interdependence Project is a grassroots, community-oriented project. We offer weekly meditation classes, lectures and discussions inspired by the Buddhist philosophical tradition and other contemplative education systems."
They podcast Wednesday night lectures and are an active network of artists and activists
for more info visit www.theidproject.com
Thursday, September 06, 2007
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
the 11th hour
i strongly recommend seeing the 11th hour.
i don't want to preach, but i will say that it offered a philosophical, system-view of the current global crisis that went above and beyond simply showing the effects of global warming and scaring the viewer into action. it's def. worth your time.
xoxo mp
i don't want to preach, but i will say that it offered a philosophical, system-view of the current global crisis that went above and beyond simply showing the effects of global warming and scaring the viewer into action. it's def. worth your time.
xoxo mp
Friday, August 31, 2007
La Blogotheque Delivers
Video Blogger La Blogotheque has been capturing "Take away concerts"
Description from the website
The use of a single unedited shot, and real camera distance audio reveals the setting to the performers at the same time it does the viewer. The musicians are discovering and exploring their own music in this new context in real time.
Here are a few of my favorites:
The Dirty Projectors
Au Revoir Simone:
The Arcade Fire in an Elevator (note the great "magazine playing"):
Andrew Bird:
Description from the website
The Take Away Shows are a Video Podcast produced by the french weblog La Blogothèque. Every week, we give away a session, shot with a band, in an unusual, urban environment.
Sessions are always filmed as a unique shot, without any cut, recorded live. We usually haven’t much time to record them, so the groups have to be spontaneous, to improvise, play with what they have with them, and with their environment, whether there’s a public or not.
The use of a single unedited shot, and real camera distance audio reveals the setting to the performers at the same time it does the viewer. The musicians are discovering and exploring their own music in this new context in real time.
Here are a few of my favorites:
The Dirty Projectors
Au Revoir Simone:
The Arcade Fire in an Elevator (note the great "magazine playing"):
Andrew Bird:
Tuesday, August 21, 2007
a bit on patents...
Atlantic Works v. Brady (107 U.S. 192 (1882) (per Mr. Justice Bradley):
"The process of development in manufactures creates a constant demand for new appliances, which the skill of ordinary head-workmen and engineers is generally adequate to devise, and which, indeed, are the natural and proper outgrowth of such development. Each forward step prepares the way for the next, and each is usually taken by spontaneous trials and attempts in a hundred different places. To grant a single party a monopoly of every slight advance made, except where the exercise of invention, somewhat above ordinary mechanical or engineering skill, is distinctly shown, is unjust in principle and injurious in consequences.
"The design of the patent laws is to reward those who make some substantial discovery or invention, which adds to our knowledge and makes a step in advance in the useful arts. Such inventors are worthy of all favor. It was never the object of those laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling device, every shadow of a shade of an idea, which would naturally and spontaneously occur to any skilled mechanic or operator in the ordinary progress of manufactures. Such an indiscriminate creation of exclusive privileges thuds [sic - serves(?)] rather to obstruct than to stimulate invention. It creates a class of speculative schemers who make it their business to watch the advancing wave of improvement, and gather its foam in the form of patented monopolies, which enable them to lay a heavy tax upon the industry of the country, without contributing anything to the real advancement of the arts. It embarrasses the honest pursuit of business with fears and apprehensions of concealed liens and unknown liabilities to lawsuits and vexatious accountings for profits made in good faith." (pp. 199-200)
via Patents & Nonobviousness
"The process of development in manufactures creates a constant demand for new appliances, which the skill of ordinary head-workmen and engineers is generally adequate to devise, and which, indeed, are the natural and proper outgrowth of such development. Each forward step prepares the way for the next, and each is usually taken by spontaneous trials and attempts in a hundred different places. To grant a single party a monopoly of every slight advance made, except where the exercise of invention, somewhat above ordinary mechanical or engineering skill, is distinctly shown, is unjust in principle and injurious in consequences.
"The design of the patent laws is to reward those who make some substantial discovery or invention, which adds to our knowledge and makes a step in advance in the useful arts. Such inventors are worthy of all favor. It was never the object of those laws to grant a monopoly for every trifling device, every shadow of a shade of an idea, which would naturally and spontaneously occur to any skilled mechanic or operator in the ordinary progress of manufactures. Such an indiscriminate creation of exclusive privileges thuds [sic - serves(?)] rather to obstruct than to stimulate invention. It creates a class of speculative schemers who make it their business to watch the advancing wave of improvement, and gather its foam in the form of patented monopolies, which enable them to lay a heavy tax upon the industry of the country, without contributing anything to the real advancement of the arts. It embarrasses the honest pursuit of business with fears and apprehensions of concealed liens and unknown liabilities to lawsuits and vexatious accountings for profits made in good faith." (pp. 199-200)
via Patents & Nonobviousness
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