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An Education on copy protection
Thanks to Paul Miller for the angry post about the idiocies of copy protection on Engadget. In copy protection schemes, there are two factors to take into account. The first is the possibility that a film will get out in bit-perfect digital quality, available for download in perfect resolution on bittorrent. Anybody who is striving…
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FilmAid at Mashable's UN Digital Media Lounge
Check out Caroline! I am getting more excited each day about my trip to Kenya with FilmAid Watch live streaming video from mashable at livestream.com
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Burning Man 1 of ∞
More burning man articles: a great description of the event itself, which this post doesn’t cover, If you don’t read this whole post, the message is: come with me next year to Burning Man! See photos in the previous post below. It’s here in New York City on Yom Kippur that I chhose to reflect…
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Burning Man photos
From Facebook: “Amazing, stunning, beautiful, new. In the moment I took few photos and I wish I had more memories in color. Lots of fun in Photoshop.” From Burning Man 2010, posted by Michael Morgenstern on 9/09/2010 (53 items) The adventure began as we waited for the “Cool Bus” to arrive and take us from…
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Face to Face at Grand Central
British Airways’ Face to Face program has been incredibly helpful for our work at FilmAid. They gifted us ten international flights which we used to hold meetings and show donors our operations, a bunch of free cargo shipments which we used to transport donations of equipment, and more. This week, Tuesday and Wednesday September 14-15…
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The Man Burns
24 hours till we leave. We’ll be at 7:30 and Florence. Expect a blog post and several feature-length screenplays about Burning Man. If you haven’t heard of the event, read up on it. Radical self-reliance, bring all you need including water to survive in the desert. Radical self-expression, which should include clothes with lights and…
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How did we let it get to this?
I’m on an airplane on my way to Burning Man (more on that soon,) an attempt to create a new culture, where all forms of expression are embraced, and all members try not to define each other within the normal boundaries of our society. This morning on my way to the post office, I passed…
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The inexorable march to a Facebook-controlled world
Facebook just launched Places, an exact ripoff of Foursquare. I’m not impressed with their vision – it seems as if they had insight into a future paradigm, realized it, and now don’t know where things are going, so they wait until other platforms are fully developed and then rip off their models. But they are…
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The wonderful production of “Wonderful”: Part Three
This is part three of a four-part series. Check out part one and part two! Shooting in the countryside had its challenges, but they were nothing compared to shooting in the wilderness of Manhattan, and the Pocanos part of the shoot was much more laid back. With hats made of fruit and clothing items designed…