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Simon Dingle · Johannesburg (South Africa) · Jun 16th, 2007 2:58 am · 54 votes · 9 comments
A Ximer-remixed C-Shirt, by Simon Dingle
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CC Japan's Dominick Chen and Ximer developer, Isshu Rakusai at the Summit
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A C-Shirt in the mix.
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Commoners remixing their own C-Shirts.
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The C-Shirt project was originally launched by Dominick Chen and Yuko Noguchi to raise funds for Creative Commons Japan. The project applies customisation culture to t-shirt design. At the iCommons Summit in Croatia, a workshop was held where commoners could design their own C-Shirts as a practical illustration of how CC licenses are applied to remix and customisation culture. Behind the project is an application called Ximer, which aims to provide far more than just t-shirt remixing.
The web application (Ximer is ‘Remix’ in reverse) allows users to take CC licensed works and use them in t-shirt designs. The application includes editing tools to alter the images as well as to import content from Flickr, Wikipedia, user files and other sources to be edited and included in the design.
CC-licensed content have also been made available by Loftwork, a Japanese organisation that provides a collaboration platform and working community for designers.
“It’s about enabling customisation culture using Creative Commons as a legal infrastructure,” says Chen, speaking at the Summit. “The goal is to turn ‘customer’ into ‘customiser’ by enabling micro creativity.”
Once ‘remixed’ the t-shirt design can be ordered from the C-Shirt site or even made available for others to purchase – or remix themselves.
Isshu Rakusai and Ken Suzuki, developers of Ximer explain that CC licensing is intrinsic to their software. “We need CC because we need to remix,” affirms Rakusai.
Ximer is being expanded as a platform for remixing any online content, from anywhere, so long as the relevant licenses are considered. Content remixed in Ximer will then be exportable to blogs, as downloadable files or numerous other outlets. The goal is to provide a framework for any online content to be remixed.
In the future development of the application, the plan is also to include intelligence surrounding CC license specifications so that Ximer can ensure that license conditions are adhered to for CC-licensed work.
Ximer will also track changes on the work to facilitate for backward-propagation of creative works.
Great article, thanks Simon! Daniela Faris · Johannesburg (South Africa) · Jun 16th, 2007 1:22 am
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This worshop was really great! :) jonsson · Göteborg (Sweden) · Jun 16th, 2007 3:53 am
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Amazing project with huge potential. The workshop was just great. ThanQ. urs (Switzerland) · Jun 16th, 2007 4:26 am
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Has anyone received their C-Shirts yet? I'd love to see the final product... Simon Dingle · Johannesburg (South Africa) · Jun 16th, 2007 5:49 pm
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Hi! We have already given almost all C-shirts to participants of our workshop.
You'll find them because a C-shirt has certainly CC mark on it! rakusai · Yokohama (Japan) · Jun 16th, 2007 8:13 pm
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Loving mine! Thanks guys :) Simon Dingle · Johannesburg (South Africa) · Jun 16th, 2007 10:04 pm
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Wish I could have attended this, but there are too many interesting workshops! Maybe I'll get a chance next year in Saporro (mudah-mudahan :)) Stian · Hamar (Norway) · Jun 17th, 2007 1:10 am
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thanks again to everyone who came to create really original remixes!
Next year in Sapporo, we'll definitely try to organize a 2.0 version of C-shirt; and we may not stick just with shirt, but other materials as well. Please come again next year! Dominick Chen, ccJapan · Tokyo (Japan) · Jun 17th, 2007 4:30 am
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I attended this guys! lucky me Alexandros · Athens (Greece) · Jul 06th, 2007 2:26 am
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