Wednesday, November 24. 2010
Intellectual Property Donors: Sharing Ideas Like Organs
Why let all of your ideas die with you? Current Copyright law prevents anyone from building upon your creativity for 70 years after your death. Live on in collaboration with others. Make an intellectual property donation. By donating your IP into the public domain you will "promote the progress of science and useful arts" (U.S. Constitution). Ensure that your creativity will live on after you are gone, make a donation today.
We're happy to share our salvageable organs with those who need them, so why not our ideas?
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Ghostly Photos of Occupied Amsterdam Mashed Up with Modern Amsterdam
Via GOOD
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All photos by Jo Teeuwisse, except otherwise noted. See the full Flickr set here.
Jo Teeuwisse is a historical consultant and, apparently, a Photoshop genius. Her work involves taking photos of Amsterdam during the 1940s and then superimposing them on modern photos. The results are these amazing, ghostly collisions of past and present. You can see more (plus the original old photos) on the project's Flickr page. The captions are hers, and all images are used with permission.
"Liberation Parade on June 29, 1945 in the Vijzelstraat, Amsterdam."
"We see three members of the scouting movement. The scouts had been forbidden by the Nazis and as soon as the war came to an end they put on their old uniforms and started helping the resistance and the Allies."
"Here you see the SS recruitment office. A member of the resistance took this with his camera probably hidden under his coat."
"Liberation Parade on June 29, 1945 in the Vijzelstraat, Amsterdam."
"Molenkade in Duivendrecht, may 1945, people are waiting for the liberators."
Photo by Kees.
"Reguliersgracht in Amsterdam, these people worked in a factory, the office part was perhaps on one of these buildings."
"A group of young factory workers posing probably outside the factory during the war."
Personal comment:
It's kind of trivial in a way (not the content, but to mix, or usually rather compare past and recent images of the same place), but I like this idea of time twinning mediated by location. It's a bit lke if past or future could be unfolded from present. It reminds me of this old post about a iPhone app, Street Museum that did the same in AR mode.
Out in the wind, above ground, out in the weather
Via Mammoth
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[Appropriate for the gradual approach of winter in the mid-Atlantic: photographs from Alexander Gronsky's "The Edge", a series of shots taken along the outer boundary of Moscow; via @ballardian. Thinking about whitesward and glacier wrap again...]
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