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Archive for December, 2005

I’ll quote Doug Rushkoff to introduce this video clip we’re posting to the production blog for the 24×7 film experiment:
“Genesis P-Orridge’s work defies objective analysis”. That about sums it up, if you don’t know the body of work check out Genesis’ website for current goings on, pics and performance schedules.
We invited Genesis, who identifies as [...]

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Rap Paths

Nature publishes an analysis re the collaborative nature of rappers.
He finds that on average it takes a chain of just 2.9 people in the network to connect one rapper to another; that is, three degrees of separation. This compares with 2.5 people for the network of movie actors (popularized in the Kevin Bacon game ), [...]

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Fair Use

Documentary filmmakers should be pleased about this bit of progress, The Center For Social Media have put together a report articulating suggestions for guidelines regarding “fair use” of copyrighted assets.
Their statement of best practices in fair use (.pdf) looks like it’s intended to make clear what documentary filmmakers currently regard as reasonable application of the [...]

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