Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan. The big content companies are TERRIBLE at doing both of these things, so it’s no wonder they’re not doing so well in the current environment.
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And if you can stand me sounding even crazier, here is this: making money from art is not a human right. It so happens that technological and societal blahbity bloos have conspired to create a situation where selling songs about monkeys and robots is a viable business, but for most of human history people have NOT paid for art.
In Star Wars Uncut, fans re-made the movie 15 seconds at a time, and the result is a pure joy to behold. So many styles, creative methods, and hilarious, heartwarming interpretations. It’s like the whole nerdy internet Sweded one of my favorite movies and it’s glorious.
Don’t know if I’ll sit down and watch the whole thing at once, but I’ll gladly return occasionally to watch a few scenes and smile. And to think, governments want to block things like this from being possible.
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Debut video/single from what’s easily the best album of 2012 so far.
Great Pixies-ish angsty 90’s sound, love it. With a video produced by Urban Outfitters, heh. Marketers co-opt everything, those bastards.
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Bill Maher explains how the NFL is so successful — because it’s socialist. Take that Tea Party. (via PSFK)
that’s what neurobiology is telling us: Our brains are simply meat computers that, like real computers, are programmed by our genes and experiences to convert an array of inputs into a predetermined output. Recent experiments involving brain scans show that when a subject “decides” to push a button on the left or right side of a computer, the choice can be predicted by brain activity at least seven seconds before the subject is consciously aware of having made it. (These studies use crude imaging techniques based on blood flow, and I suspect that future understanding of the brain will allow us to predict many of our decisions far earlier than seven seconds in advance.) “Decisions” made like that aren’t conscious ones. And if our choices are unconscious, with some determined well before the moment we think we’ve made them, then we don’t have free will in any meaningful sense.
The video shares top 10 trends, or read the the full report of 100 things to watch in 2012. Some interesting, some enlightening. (JWT)
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Totally stark white room + kids + tons of colorful stickers = wonderful art. Click through for the before/after comparison. (buzzfeed)
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Love this chart and accompanying post:
“So they’re using social media to engage. And they’re talking about brands. They just don’t want to have those conversations with the brand itself.”
(from Edward Boches)
Most people move to Hollywood with the hope of making it big, but Zonday is helping show the way to something strange and new: making it small. He says he does recognize that (borrowing a line from Chris Rock) “you aren’t really famous until someone’s mama knows who you are.” But a narrow, lucrative fame is the path that has opened up for him and for the thousands of others like him. After going viral, they’ve figured out how—against all expectation—to stay viral.
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Will all of these people get rich on YouTube? Not a chance. But unlike previous waves of aspirants hitting LA’s shores, Zappin insists, they aren’t wasting their time waiting tables or watching someone’s kids. They’re working on their craft, doing what they love, and making some decent money in the bargain. In an economy without much opportunity, they’re trying to join an uncharted and expanding demographic: the YouTube middle class.
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