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iCommons Auction – New Items Added – Bid Now!
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The iCommons Auction is hotting up, and we’re adding great new items to the auction every week. This auction is an exceptional opportunity to find unique and special artefacts from the Commons, as well as getting some guilt-free Christmas shopping in – all proceeds from the auction go to supporting the iCommons Node project, which connects global free culture projects around the world.
Bidding is easy – no matter where you are in the world. Simply go to www.icommons.org/auction, scroll down the page till you find the items you’re interested in, click on the ‘Bid On eBay’ link, and you’ll be taken to that item’s page on eBay. From there, you can put in your bid. Then all you have to do is keep watching the page, and raising your bid …
Remember, shipping of all the items in the auction is free – the donors will ship them to you.
Featured Items
We’ve selected some very special Featured Items for you this week; and they all share a common theme: they highlight the incredible level of talent and creativity that we have in the Commons, particularly in the visual media.
8 ‘Free Souls’ Photographic Prints by Joi Ito
This set of eight photographs is from Joi Ito’s ‘Free Souls’ series; a collection dedicated to the greatest movers and shakers of the Commons movement, who were photographed at the iCommons Summit in Dubrovnik. As well as being the chairman of the board of Creative Commons and a member of the board of iCommons, Joi Ito is an avid photographer. The Free Souls are:
* Heather Ford: Executive director of iCommons, she brought Creative Commons licences to South Africa.
* Cory Doctorow: Activist, writer, blogger, co-editor of Boing-Boing.
* Charlie Nesson: father of the Free Culture movement, founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
* Cory Ondrejka: CTO, Linden Lab, the home of Second Life
* Lawrence Liang: lawyer and legal researcher, specifically on the issue of piracy in the developing world.
* Tomislav Medak: founder of the MultiMedia Institute in Zagreb, he brought Creative Commons licences to Croatia, and was the fearless co-organiser of the iCommons Summit 2007.
* James Boyle: Professor of Law at Duke Law School who writes on intellectual property, cyberspace, and social and legal theory.
* Ronaldo Lemos: chairman of the board of iCommons, he brought Creative Commons licences to Brazil and is the director of the Center for Technology & Society at the FGV Law School in Rio de Janeiro.
‘Dubrovnik – Sapporo’
by Loftwork Japan illustrator, Shohei Honma (Oil painting)
This painting is based on Shohei-san’s May/June cover illustration of the iCommons monthly magazine. It represents the movement of the home of the iCommons Summit from Croatia in 2007 to Japan in 2008. Shohei studied Moving Images and Performing Arts at Tama Art University. After graduating, he mastered fine arts and pursued his own artistic style in his paintings, web design and other creative works. Shohei is one of Loftwork’s 8,515 registered creators, web and graphic designers, illustrators, photographers and fine artists.
Loftwork is a Tokyo-based business that provides a creator-matching service for companies who are in need of artists for their projects. Loftwork generously supports iCommons by donating an illustrated front cover for their monthly magazine.
Dimensions: 240 x 330 mm, oil painting
An Autographed Copy of “Good Copy Bad Copy” (2007), A Free Culture Documentary film (DVD)
According to Cory Doctorow on Boing-Boing, Good Copy Bad Copy is “a stunning Danish documentary on remix culture and copyright, available as a free download. The film skips around the world, showing the changing attitudes toward art and culture in Nigeria, Sweden, Brazil, the UK, and the US, answering statements about incentives and creativity by the MPAA and IFPI by showing us real artists (like Danger Mouse and Girl Talk) making wonderful art that, according to the gangsters in the entertainment industry, no one will make without copyright.” The documentary has been aired on Danish national television.
The dvd is autographed by the directors Andreas Johnsen, Ralf Christensen, and Henrik Moltke.
Length: 58 minutes
‘Playful Kids’ by Gregor Rohrig (Photographic prints)
Playful Kids is a set of four photographs by Gregor Rohrig, South African online journalist and iCommons volunteer. The pictures were taken in the Eastern Cape, South Africa. As part of the Project: Pictures for Life exhibition, these prints were first shown at the National Arts Festival in Grahamstown, South Africa in 2005. Proceeds from the exhibition were passed back to the members of the community, to create a sustainable project called iisnaps zam (‘your snaps’ in Xhosa) that still operates in Grahamstown.
Dimensions: 10x15" print with black inner frame, high quality print, glossy.
Each photo is 1 of 28 prints
Prints include a digital signature by the photographer
For more information on the Auction, how to bid, payment methods and any of the items for sale, please visit www.icommons.org/auction and follow the links provided.
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media-events icommons-auction fundraising free-culture just-a-bitof-fun
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