If there ever was tragically visceral evidence of how remix culture fuels creativity and copyright hinders it, it is this: Despite – or perhaps because of – millions of views in less than a week, The David Foster Wallace Literary Trust has filed a copyright claim against the wildly popular YouTube version of the wonderful short film adaptation of Wallace’s timeless 2005 commencement address, This Is Water. (Luckily, you can still watch the film on Vimeo – but that’s beside the point.)
Here is an example of a project made out of love, the existence of which harms the estate in no way, financial or otherwise, but serves the public good by way of cultural preservation and celebration of Wallace’s spirit and legacy, extending his message and allowing it to touch more lives. That the estate finds any of this harmful is gobsmacking, at once an aberration of the law and a complete failure of cultural duty.
This video is amazing - PLEASE CHECK IT OUT
“1000 combination locks” is a wire ball puzzle game which uses 1000, 3 dial key combination locks
(Source: junkculture)
january 2013: this shall be my year
may 2013: well, shit
What happens when you give thousands of stickers to thousands of kids by Yayoi Kusama
#443 Indecisions – A new minimal geometric composition each day
Melissa Gordon - “Composition with Red, Black, Blue and Yellow” in Time and Space, 2011
wood, acrylic and iron
69 × 8 × 11 3/4 in / 175.3 × 20.3 × 29.8 cm
Points of ContentionWood, plastic, acrylic, styrofoam, glass, plexiglass and salt
Dimensions variable
Ice Station on Skies
The station will be home to up to 52 crew members over the summer and while the site may look childlike, its design is anything but simplistic. Roughly 900 miles from the South Pole, located on an ice sheet that is perpetually moving and folding into the Weddell Sea this is the sixth Halley Research Station. By Hugh Broughton Architects