RIP: A Remix Manifesto (with a pic of Gregg Gillis, aka, ‘Girl Talk’)

Girltalk — Colour (After), originally uploaded by royblumenthal. One of the movies on the Air Canada flight from Edmonton to London was Brett Gaylor‘s RIP: A REMIX MANIFESTO. (Download a remixable copy of RIP 2.0 here: http://www.opensourcecinema.org/project/rip2.0.) The documentary is a wonderfully immersive introduction to the Creative Commons movement. Well worth seeing. One of the artists featured in the movie is a remix musician called ‘GirlTalk’. (Here’s an interview with Gregg Gillis, the dude behind the nom de plume: http://pitchfork.com/features/interviews/7522-girl-talk/.) I LOVE what he does….Continue Reading “RIP: A Remix Manifesto (with a pic of Gregg Gillis, aka, ‘Girl Talk’)”

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Roy Blumenthal Making the Amy Goodman Visual Facilitation Pic Earlier this afternoon I caught the live streaming vidcast of the OPEN VIDEO CONFERENCE held in New York. I liked what I was encountering. So I did a visual facilitation of some of the keynotes. You can see the pics I made in my Open Video Conference set on Flickr. Amy Goodman spoke about Democracy Now, a free-tv station that seeks to put views across that aren’t curtailed by corporate influence. I made a pic of…Continue Reading

ICLEI World Congress 2009 — How to Find & Download Roy’s Pictures —  #iclei #yeg

ICLEI World Congress 2009 — 02 01 Report Back #iclei #yeg, originally uploaded by royblumenthal. Hello! If you’re one of the delegates at the ICLEI World Congress in Edmonton, and you’re keen to download any of the pictures I’m making during the proceedings… I’m posting all of them to my Flickr gallery. You can find them all in my ICLEI set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/royblumenthal/sets/72157619662919649/. All of the pictures are high resolution. Which means you can print them out around the size of a sheet of paper from…Continue Reading “ICLEI World Congress 2009 — How to Find & Download Roy’s Pictures — #iclei #yeg”