:: jenny chowdhury says, “put that in your pipe and smoke it” ::

Cory has just posted our movie “I am not a mime” on youtube.com for those of you PC users who couldn’t view it before. Cheers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQeg0tBmAQI

Check out this animation that myra and made for comlab

http://itp.nyu.edu/~jlc476/flash1/the_bar.html

Just your average mime taking his yorkie out for a walk on a beautiful autumn day in New York.

click here to see more pics that I took of Cory during our shoot. I ruined a whole bunch of footage because the flash went off during the takes. Live and learn.

Not completely convinced myself, I unwittingly convinced Sai, Cory and Matt that making a movie about a talking mime trying to live an ordinary life was a good idea.

I think we were all just too tired of brainstorming to care if it was a good idea or not. Here’s the assignment:
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still from the video gabe and I did for communications lab

see the video here:
http://itp.nyu.edu/~gac277/movies/roundandround.mov

Both of these guys have something to say about Micropayments a mode to access the internet.

While Scott McCloud has a more utopian view – artists are paid for their work since it is “not a commodity”, Clay Shirky is more of a realist. I know i wouldn’t pay for content if i could find similar content for free elsewhere. But i know there are some people out there who aren’t quite as cheap or poor as me.

Sorry Mr. McCloud

Back in 1993, Biz Markie released the sample-safe, but terribly bland album “All Samples Cleared” in reaction to being sued for using an unauthorized sample on his 1991 album “I Need a Haircut”. The lawsuit served as a major speed bump in Biz Markie’s career and although he eventually experienced a smaller second wave of success, I often wonder how many other top ten hits Biz would have produced had he free reign to sample the musical spectrum.

The story of DJ Danger Mouse’s “The Grey Album” starts off with a similar premise, but ends on a happier note (at least from the viewpoint of the artist producing the remixed track). DJ Danger Mouse used/infringed upon copyrighted material from Jay-Z’s “The Black Album” and the Beatles’ “White Album” and created a remix dubbed “The Grey Album”. What a clever idea, i thought when i first heard about it. Those holding the rights of the high profile “White Album” weren’t as enthusiastic and filed suit against Danger Mouse. (I’m not sure how Jay-Z, who’s made a career out of borrowing others’ songs, felt about this whole thing.)

So how is Mouse’s case different from Biz’s you ask?
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It took me 4 tries to get through “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” and I only got halfway there. I’ve now spent over three hours reading and re-reading re-re-reading. While some of his sentences and sentiments are clear, I still don’t know what his overall message is. Am I retarded? I think this is why I ended up studying engineering instead of Art History.
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I sincerely hope that Robert Smithson had a sense of humor about his art because I found Smithson’s floating island to be one of the most imaginative yet comical pieces of art I’ve seen in a long time.

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