Lawrence Lessig has posted a review of David Halperin's recent book, Digital Barbarism.
Halperin, who authored the (in)famous New York Times article calling for perpetual copyright, has now compiled his ideas into a book. Lessig offers a much-needed critique, including citing misconceptions about Creative Commons (Halperin conflates it not only with "freeware" with software... more
Paddy Johnson · New York (United States) · Jun 15th, 2007 5:28 pm · 18 votes · no comments made
A view from artist Nathaniel Stern's window - so beautiful it's almost surreal, by Nathaniel Stern
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I'm not sure why, but orange seems to signify the presence of artists.
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Artists look in a variety of directions. An exhibition in progress.
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Joy Garnett adds to her remixes of Molotov. This caption isn't so witty.
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A small child learns to lift heavy rope thanks to artist Nathaniel Stern
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Be prepared to get totally sick of this image&059&059; It's everywhere!
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Artist T.Whid shows off his teeth as an expression of self. Or something.
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As the headline suggests, readers of the icommons blog have the unique opportunity to view shots of a half finished installation space by the artists in residence, and a few glamor shots of said stars, (observe the uber sexy teeth of T.Whid in the following slide show.) This combined with a preview of the orangely designed posters and ropely fabricated public art works, makes for a slide show not to be missed. For witty quippage and uh, finely composed photographs, click through the jpegs to your right!
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