52 Shades of Greed – illustrated playing cards for economic education.
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Famous book covers ‘improved’ with more honest titles. Best thing since what Dr. Seuss books were really about.
Turkish graphic designer Selin Arisoy mashes up her favorite fiction authors with their most famous creations. Pictured here, clockwise from the top: Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, Ray Bradbury, and Mary Shelley.
Some remarkable sound editing there, in an homage to celebrated director Darren Aronofsky.
Artist Fauxnique, aka Monique Jenkinson, recreates Cindy Sherman’s iconic photographs in drag
Literary color palettes inspired by famous authors, a clever teaser for Pantone’s new book. Pictured here, French Country inspired by Gustave Flaubert.
Gold. The 92Y does a dramatic reading of Obama’s campaign emails.
The sound of a dying star – sound doesn’t travel in space, but astronomer Jon Miller and his team translated the frequency of signals they captured in observing a star being devoured by a supermassive black hole nearly 4 billion light years away.
Old but gold – 5,000 years of dogs in art. Also see this illustrated history of dogs in books.
For Julia Child’s 100th birthday today, the iconic chef remixed.
To see how copyright law may survive, we have to ask, beyond the pieties and legal niceties, what its real social function is and whether there is at least a large constituency in favor of that function continuing.
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Copyright, we see, is not essentially driven by notions of justice or theories of ownership, but by a certain culture’s attachment to a certain literary form. If people only read poetry, which you can never stop poets producing even when you pay them nothing at all, then the law of copyright would disappear in a trice.
At the New York Review of Books, Tim Parks asks, Does Copyright Matter?
Complement with Kirby Ferguson on remix culture and how copyright law is destroying the very thing it set out to protect.
“I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work…. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready and then it is inevitable.”
Ronald Johnson’s copy of The Poetical Works of John Milton, 1892, which he used to create his Radi os, originally published in 1977 –an early example of blackout poetry.
America’s National Parks as a subway map, adding to these clever uses of subway maps as visual metaphors. Also see Alice in Wonderland as a subway map.
Literary Jukebox – new Tumblr project offers a daily quote from a favorite book, thematically matched with a song.
