RiP: A Remix Manifesto
I was lucky enough to see Brett Gaylor’s Rip: A Remix Manifesto at the a premiere screening last fall and now it’s your turn. I’ve know Brett for a couple of years and made the first couple of versions of the site (not the latest) but it’s got nothing to do with my appreciation: his movie kicks ass! Seriously, it’s a fun and instructive (rare combo) ride through what Copyright, copy left, Creative Commons and the digital culture in general is about, the legal crapola going on that’s threatening it and the great stuff happening in the space.
On top of the movie’s quality in it’s own right, Brett’s a good guy living in Montréal and part of our local scene, we’re always showing up at various events and little launches to encourage the locals doing good, this is a full length theater released movie tackling a big issue. If it’s not the time to show up, I don’t know what is.
For what it talks about, for the importance of the issues, for your own awareness of what’s involved and, well, so it keeps on being shown in cinemas, you have to go see this movie. In Montréal it’s showing at AMC until Wednesday and at Cinéma du Parc for an open run as well as in various other cities across the country now and in upcoming weeks.
If you don’t come out to encourage and learn from this movie, you suck.
Berlin and Our Apartment
So a lot of my readers whom I know in person or through Twitter already know this but lets make it more “official” through the blog: April 1st through June 22nd we (not the royal we, myself and my lovely girlfriend) will be based in Berlin. We’ll be spending a lot of time there since we have rented an apartment Kreuzberg but we will also make side trips in a few places, Offf in Lisbon for one, most likely Copenhagen, Prague and… The rest remains to be seen.
If you will be in one of those places, have been and have tips, friends you think we’d enjoy meeting, events, conferences you’d recommend, restaurants which can’t be missed, secret bars and shops no one know about, etc. please email me, we’ll have time to see a bunch of things.
[Update on 18th: Booked] Lastly, although Berlin is somewhat inexpensive (for Europe), this is still a pricey couple of months so we are renting our Montréal apartment while we’re away. Here’s the ad on Craig’s List, please pass it along to those who might be interested. It’s on the Plateau (on de Lorimier, near Mont-Royal) so metro and buses are always close and we have a bunch of great cafés, bakers, restaurants close by as well as all the usefull stuff like grocery store, post office, pharmacy, hardware store, etc.
Bandwidth dans ta face
Pour ceux qui étaient au dernier WebCamp tenu en parallèle de Webcom Montréal, vous vous rappelez peut-être d’un des sujets ou nous nous questionnions sur la valeur de ces rencontres en personne versus les discussions en ligne que nous tenons continuellement, pourquoi passer du temps à se retrouver face à face? Ma réponse parlais de bande passante (bandwidth), comme quoi en personne il y a un paquet d’indicateurs visuels et autres qui nous permettent d’échanger beaucoup plus d’information plus rapidement, qu’il est donc possible, si nous discutons “bien”, d’accomplir plus en une journée en personne qu’en bien du temps en ligne.
Rien de super révolutionnaire mais j’ai quand même eu le goût de me péter les bretelles un peu en parcourant cet article sur les signaux honnêtes et particulièrement le vidéo qu’on y retrouve. C’est comme pas mal le même discours. Remarquez à 7m30 particulièrement ;).
Outre mon pétage de bretelles un peux têteux, prenez le temps de tout lire et regarder, très intéressant.
(via Clément qui commentais chez Yves (je reviendrai d’ailleurs sur cette entrée))
Quote
If there is one conclusion to be drawn from the life of Leonardo, it is that procrastination reveals the things at which we are most gifted — the things we truly want to do. Procrastination is a calling away from something that we do against our desires toward something that we do for pleasure, in that joyful state of self-forgetful inspiration that we call genius.
—How to Procrastinate Like Leonardo da Vinci
Quick
Great new bookmarklet which strips pages for easier reading. Well done. [via someone on Twitter, I forget who]
Long Tweet
[Randomness too long to tweet] Most every morning I walk from de Lorimier and Mont-Royal towards St-Laurent and St-Viateur. Two things catch my eye almost every time.
The city seems to have given up on winter maintenance of Laurier Park. Paths are literally 10 inches of ice, stairs are barely usable. The citizens have taken it upon themselves to do the maintenance. Sadly, the solution they chose is to pave the park with dog shit.
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You know in movies when scores of people come out of the woodwork either zombified or taken over by some alien lifeform? And they mindlessly converge on some dastardly destination where evil will ocur? In the morning the east side of the Mile-End neighbourdhood looks like that with hords of Ubisoftians heading for their hive on St-Laurent.
