Mar 3, 2008comments (2)
Incredible Lego Artwork from NYC’s FAO Schwartz
(I don’t know who took these pictures, but they were emailed to me by my Lego fanatic buddy Carter Martin)
Feb 15, 2008comments (0)
Max-o-matic
I’m completely enthralled by the work of Barcelona-based graphic designer Máximo Tuja, aka max-o-matic.
(via we-make-money-not-art’s review of “ESC: Enter Spanish Creativity“)
Feb 4, 2008comments (2)
Awesome game, really lame advertising.
Last night’s was arguably one of the best Super Bowls in a long time. To quote my highly-caffeinated friend Chase Jones, who’s a better sports commentator than I’ll ever be:
UNDOUBTEDLY THE MOST ASTONISHING UPSET VICTORY IN THE WORLDS GREATEST GAME ON THE WORLDS GREATEST STAGE IN HISTORYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!
That said, the crop of ads this year was completely disappointing (except for CareerBuilder’s, which always grabbed the room). If you missed them - or just want to relive the dumb - they’re all online, organized by quarter, on the Super Bowl Ads MySpace Page.
It seems that lately, not just with the Super Bowl but across the board, media has overtaken creative as the cool kid on the advertising block. If so, that’s a problem.
Was this year’s sad lot reflective of changes in the ad industry, or was this just a bad year?
May 22, 2006comments (0)
The skinny on Creative Commons licensing
What with the whole share! discuss! community! open! freedom! nature of today’s web, the legal issues associated with borrowing, referencing, displaying, or quoting someone else’s work can sometimes get lost in the shuffle. Meanwhile, copyright law is such a complex tangled mess it can be really difficult to know what is and isn’t allowed, and how to make sure your work is protected while being accessible.
Fortunately for those of you us without legal degrees, content protection and the free flow of information have been necking since 2001, thanks to the Creative Commons.
Read on to learn about sharing like your momma taught you.
Some rights reserved
The Creative Commons allows you to choose just how many rights you’d like to reserve for your work by offering an assortment of licensing choices, ranging from relatively restrictive to an all out free-for-all.
Our content, as you may notice, is licensed as “Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5.” This basically means you can share this with whoever you want in whatever way you want, as long as you’re not hawking it (it’s a little more detailed, but that’s the gist).
The six main license types are listed and explained in-depth on their website. I should also mention that all licensing is free.
How legit is it?
Johnny Law gives it two thumbs up. Earlier this year, the first Creative Commons license was upheld in court .
And for those of you who put more stock in grunge music than Johnny Law, it’s also legitimate enough to have been used by Pearl Jam for their latest video release.
Sticking it to The Man
The point of this type of licensing is to allow the everyman to be able to easily share information, especially since a huge portion of information today is being created by the everyman.
According to Wikipedia, Creative Commons’ chairman of the board Lawrence Lessig feels that
”…modern culture is dominated by traditional content distributors in order to maintain and strengthen their monopolies on cultural products such as popular music and popular cinema, and that Creative Commons can provide alternatives to these restrictions.”
Now swipe this article in the name of freedom.
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