Audio: Show us cover art or share a track from the first band or solo artist you flipped for.
Submitted by Red Pen
I've been a music junkie for as long as I can remember, but the first band that I "flipped for" that stuck was MxPx. They toured through Texas frequently while I was in high school and college, and I probably went to 8-10 of their shows between my sophomore year in high school and freshman year in college.
I must have listened through their third album, Life In General, 200 times while I was in high school. My taste in music shifted a bit in college, but I've started listening to the occasional MxPx album again since they released Panic in 2005.
"Doing Time" should be every high school's perpetual senior song.
I must have listened through their third album, Life In General, 200 times while I was in high school. My taste in music shifted a bit in college, but I've started listening to the occasional MxPx album again since they released Panic in 2005.
"Doing Time" should be every high school's perpetual senior song.
According to Frauenfelder, there's a new public sculpture park in Seattle whose curator has chosen to combine its arrogance and ignorance of copyright law into a hilarious, head-scratching package.
You see, photographs of the sculpture seen at left aren't permitted. On the surface this seems like a harmless enough policy; after all, the sculpture was an original work crafted by its artist, who is also the inherent owner of its copyright, which is at the very least understandable regardless of your opinion of the state of US copyright law. Attempting to forbid passersby from snapping photographs, however, is ignorantly cavalier.
The city of Chicago tried to implement an equally misguided policy when it opened Millenium Park in 2004. The park is home to a beautiful modern sculpture named Cloud Gate, a bean-shaped mirrored marvel. Since Cloud Gate is arguably the centerpiece of Millenium Park, and ostensibly because its overprotective creator had never cribbed another's idea in his life, park management began shaking down photographers for permits.
There is decades-long precedent for documenting anything or anyone in virtually any fashion from public property, as long as the documentation (photograph, video, audio, charcoal sketch, etc.) isn't for commercial use. Though Cloud Gate was privately funded, the park in which it rests received at least $270 million in public money. This is just a hunch, but I'd be willing to wager that $270 million that the park in which Typewriter Eraser rests and the streets and sidewalks that surround it (seen in the above photo) were publicly funded as well.
Check out The Photographer's Right for more clarification on why you're not a criminal for holding a camera in public.
You see, photographs of the sculpture seen at left aren't permitted. On the surface this seems like a harmless enough policy; after all, the sculpture was an original work crafted by its artist, who is also the inherent owner of its copyright, which is at the very least understandable regardless of your opinion of the state of US copyright law. Attempting to forbid passersby from snapping photographs, however, is ignorantly cavalier.
There is decades-long precedent for documenting anything or anyone in virtually any fashion from public property, as long as the documentation (photograph, video, audio, charcoal sketch, etc.) isn't for commercial use. Though Cloud Gate was privately funded, the park in which it rests received at least $270 million in public money. This is just a hunch, but I'd be willing to wager that $270 million that the park in which Typewriter Eraser rests and the streets and sidewalks that surround it (seen in the above photo) were publicly funded as well.
Check out The Photographer's Right for more clarification on why you're not a criminal for holding a camera in public.
on Uh, You Can't Copyright Public Space