There’s a good, brief article in Wired News today on the importance of digital editing tools to the underground film movement. They describe themselves as “guerrilla filmmakers,” independent directors who create for both fun and profit, and they see themselves as a resistance force battling the banality of mainstream movies. “There’s a world full of…
A museum exhibit called “Illegal Art” might sound like a history of naughty pictures. Turns out that the exhibit (through July 25 at SF MOMA Artist’s Gallery) is more innocuous than most primetime TV: A Mickey Mouse gasmask. Pez candy dispensers honoring fallen hip-hop stars. A litigious Little Mermaid. Not kids’ stuff, exactly—but illegal? Creative…
In case you haven’t heard yet, Governor Howard Dean is guestblogging on Lessig.org this week. (Be sure to check out the Lessig-Dean mash-up photo.)
Wired News has a nice article on our work with Supreme Court audio archivists OYEZ today. Download and fileshare a few megabytes of history.
Our friends at OYEZ.org have now made it ridiculously easy to download MP3s of classic U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments for free under a Creative Commons license. Here’s a list of the first wave of Supreme Court recordings that OYEZ has embedded with license information. Download (warning: big) a few here if you like, then…