The job market is a sucking abyss...

Oh man.
How many job applications for how many McJobs did I want to answer the questions like this?

The Nihilist Job Resume

Work Experience

Lead Sales Representative, Howard Brothers Trucking Co. (June 2003 to present) As the leading sales representative at Howard Brothers, I implemented a new invoicing database lauded by my maudlin, foolhardy management team as "wonderfully efficient and surprisingly self-explanatory." Why any of this mattered, I don't know or care. As far as being a "leader" goes, I wasn't leading anyone or anything. Death is the great leveler, leading us all. Or not. Again, who cares, really? Sales Clerk, Hot Topic (January 2001 to June 2003) Employee of the month 29 consecutive times.

(via Boingboing)

Copyright comic book

The Duke Center for the Study of the Public Domain released this comic book on fair use and copyright.
(via detritus.net)

(image used under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 license)

copy cut paste

Here are some ways to educate yourself and get involved in the copyfight.

If you're looking for a much more flexible alternative to the current copyright model-
http://creativecommons.org/

A model based on the open source movement-
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/

A Stanford Law School professor who has done a great deal to help shape the arguments against the current model-
http://www.lessig.org/

Music activism
http://www.downhillbattle.org/

Helping to fight for citizen's rights in a digital age-
http://www.eff.org/about/

Exhibition of art that pushes the boundaries of sample culture-
http://www.illegal-art.org/

This is just a small sample of interesting links to get you started.
Go on.
Educate yourself.
Create something and share it.
Support those artists who do the same.
Encourage those who don't.
Lather, rinse, and repeat.

(image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5)

Notorious

Tofuhut has a great piece about the Sinatra/Biggie mashup and the recent court case that stopped sales of Biggie's '94 album Ready to Die.
This kind of stuff makes me ill. Who benefits from these suits? Let me see... record companies/lawyers?!? The line between protecting the artist and stifling the creative process has been erased a long time ago. This goes way beyond hip hop and music sampling. Can anyone point to one art form that doesn't borrow from something else? Art is cannibalistic.
I'm all for protecting the artist, but we have to figure out a new way to deal with the issues of intellectual property. The techno-genie is out of the bottle. We better focus on our three wishes. And no, we can't wish for unlimited wishes.

My philosophy

It's not about a salary
It's all about reality

Blastmaster and BDP are kicking off old school hip hop video Thursday.
Check it.

Cue Vangelis

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Originally uploaded by tomarus.

Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rode around their shores... burning with the fires of Orc.

American Motor Over Smoldered Field

American Motor Over Smoldered Field
Originally uploaded by Aleksandra Radonić.

Okay.
I'm in a flickr mood today.
But just look at this photo.
My lungs are burning just looking at it.
Gorgeous colors.
Pretty carcinogens.

fish scale

fishyoto
Originally uploaded by jasylv.

Get it?
Fish have scales, and this is a fish in extreme close up.
So I've messed with it's "scale"...
-ahem-
Okay, the joke sucks but I thought the picture was neat.
Anybody?
?

Баба-Ружина кућа / Grandma-Rose's house II

Баба-Ружина кућа / Grandma-Rose's house II
Originally uploaded by Aleksandra Radonić.

Just meditating on these great photos of walls of abandoned houses in Belgrade.
Strangely haunting and peaceful at the same time.

Stevie on the talk box

When I was a kid Stevie Wonder was like a god to me.
His sound was this incredible mixture of soul and electronic wizardry.
Even today, I get chills when I hear a song like "Superstition".
Dig Stevie covering The Carpenters' "Close to You" using a talk box.

I KNOW EVERYTHING!!!

I would love to have a whole TV station devoted to nothing but failed pilots.
So much more entertaining than real TV.
I think I've found my true purpose in life.

Under the bridge

color photo project 015
Originally uploaded by jasylv.

I drive on her streets
'Cause she's my companion
I walk through her hills
'Cause she knows who I am
She sees my good deeds
And she kisses me windy
I never worry
Now that is a lie

Rock Block

Sticking with the rock theme...
Dig this amazing post about a battle of the bands in Jakarta.
Rock knows no borders and obeys no international treaties.

For those about to rock

rocknroll
Originally uploaded by Inspector Clay.

We salute you!

elevator moods

Check out these great nano movies with an elevator theme.
Check out #14.
Extra creepy... and brilliant.
(via webzen)

dynamic music video

Here's an interesting flash music video that seems to generate unique visuals based on the viewers local weather data. hypnotic.

crate art

This just makes me giddy.
via Wooster Collective

what time is it?

Thursday is old school hip hop video day!
Time to kick back and enjoy some vids from the group that brought me back to hip hop.
Thanks guys,
Prof DefBeat

this guy!

Where did I first see this animation?
Sesame Street?
Electric Company?
The Muppets?
Captain Kangaroo?
I'm leaning towards Mr. Hooper's neighborhood.
I would love to find a compilation of the animation shorts that ran on Sesame Street and Electric Company.

Fat Albert remix

Artists do a visual remix on Saturday morning.
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