When I taught at San Francisco Art Institute, I taught a class basically on Artist as Artwork, meaning one needs to work on him or herself regularly.
I updated my bio to reflect Jon 4.0 changes.
I need to spend some more time in the shop to work out the kinks before I really jump into any other big adventures like Creative Commons is the summary of my last few days 
Help me spread the word. CC+ is NOT a license. It is a protocol. On the CC+ website, there is further clarification of this.
Ok, let me try that again:
Spread the news!
Here is a nice way to visualize what CC+ is built to enable.
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CC+ is CC license + Another agreement.
It is NOT a new license, but a facilitation of morePermissions beyond ANY standard CC licenses.
If you want to adopt CC+, please (1) implement CC+ simple technology on your site, (2) add your project/company name, and (3) let us know!
The main idea behind it is to allow for commercial rights to be brokered for monetization of content. While the branding behind CC+ has worked brilliantly in spreading the term, a basic misunderstanding or word seriously skews the understanding of CC+.
Over at Fabricatorz we launched the Cantocore.com website and are continuing to push on raising funds to fund selected artists projects. If you are in SF, we invite you to come to the Home Concert Preview next WED from 7-9. Tickets to the event are $50 and may be purchased at the door, or preferably, through paypal or contact jhoover.charles@gmail.com to process payment.
NOTE: If there is some other contribution to Cantocore by writing about the shows, contributing to the blog, helping record the event, please contact me to discuss bypassing ticket price.
Good friend Christopher Willits will be performing along with Chinese musician Ma Jie“>Ma Jie. Wine and snacks will be served as well! From the RSVP list it will be a great mix of interesting folks from the area. We have a cap of 70 people, so please do RSVP today. More about the launch, project, and Cantocore.com Home Concert Preview:
Hi all, welcome to a new project which is a collaboration between Fabricatorz and Garage Biennale. Here are two levels of scale about the project:
“Art show in Guangzhou, China in September 2008 and then in San Francisco November 2008.”
And, a few more sentences…
“Garage Biennale and the Fabricatorz are bringing you Cantocore, a research project investigating contemporary art and culture between Canton (Guangdong) and cities around the world. The initial focus is a contemporary art exhibition with two versions of the same show in San Francisco and Guangzhou, China.”
There is a solid line-up of artists working on projects at present for both shows with the main concept being the ideas of import and export where projects in both locations are the same, but different versions.
Lu re-blogged the Cantocore Home Concert Preview we are doing next WED in SF, and so, I’m pushing out this post about the Cantocore project which is a contemporary art show that Lu, myself and Justin Hoover are pushing out this early September and November. The first instance of Cantocore is to generate some funds to help in production of the artwork. No one is getting paid from the raising of monies to support art production, so we are putting on a concert to preview the artwork for the show.
Lu wrote about here:
What it will take to make an art show. You will need three things: Artists, Space and Money! Sometimes these three things don’t come so easy, don’t they?
These are the things we are pushing right now for Cantocore exhibition, a show in both Guangzhou China and San Francisco this fall. There is a home concert preview party coming Wednesday 7/23 to fund the production of the shows. I am not a very good sales woman, but really want to make this one works!
Visit Cantocore site for information about the show, artists, and detail about the preview concert. Performing musicians for the the preview concert are Ma Jie and Christopher Willits.
And then there is a follow-up post on the Cantocore website:
Cantocore Home Concert Preview is coming up next Wednesday July 23rd, 7-9 PM in San Francisco. Right now our RSVP deadline for this event is extended to Monday, July 21st. And tickets are on sale right now for $50 USD! All money goes to the production of the Cantocore exhibition in Guangzhou and San Francisco. And, all contributions will be rewarded with praise, promotion in printed materials and on this website.
This event is a preview of the coming exhibitions, and also a home concert featuring Chinese traditional instrument musician Ma Jie and electronic musician Christopher Willits.
To reserve your tickets please do one of the following:
Call Justin at 415-425-1647
Email: jhoover.charles@gmail.com
Or use Paypal optionWe are eager to raise some funds from those interested in the ideas which will gain both a plug on the http://cantocore.com website and then in our printed material. Feel free to ask questions here on this blog post publicly, or send us email about this.
Please participate in this project and if in SF, RSVP by next MONDAY, July 21 to come to the Cantocore Home Concert Preview.
This is the next 30-45 days (okay a month) of knocking out all kinds of projects I’ve had in the queue for months, literally. The first of these is the Creative Commons Case Studies project. Seriously, this one has been touched by so many people for countless months now.
I remember when Mike Linksvayer wanted me to push this one out and TVOL and I sat in a room looking at each other like what the hell is this vague task Mike just gave us 
Well, it coalesced at the CC Taiwan
It also now helps me feel like the information side of Creative Commons infrastructure is pretty solid. I won’t say complete, but at least up to par with most projects of this size. To go along with this release, Alex and I shuffled around some of the /projects page at creativecommons.org and there is now a section called “Information” which is useful for all those seeking out about why use CC. Please all, feel free to use these sections.
Joi just blogged a chunk of the Case Studies blog post I did over at CC’s blog, which I’ve sourced below:
Creative Commons Launches Global Case Studies Project
Jon Phillips, June 24th, 2008
Brisbane, Australia & San Francisco, USA — 2008 June 24Today Creative Commons (CC), in association with Creative Commons Australia, officially announced the release of the Case Studies Project, which is a large-scale community effort to encourage all to explore and add noteworthy global CC stories. Creative Commons provides free tools to allow copyright-holders to clearly show rights associated with creative works, and now this project shows how notable adopters like author Cory Doctorow, web video-sharing company Blip.tv, and open film project “A Swarm of Angels” have successfully used CC licenses.
And, Joi had this to say about the project:
This is a very important initiative and I hope everyone will contribute and use this resource. In order to make CC ubiquitous, we need support from businesses to get it integrated into the tools and the infrastructure. We need to prove that CC is not only good for society and culture, but makes business sense too. These case studies will be very important to help drive home the fact that sharing is good for business in addition to being “the right thing to do” in other respects.
This also helps make the case to creators that you sharing makes sense for professionals as well.
The next big projects to focus on are the Metrics project, PDWiki Projects (Open Library with CC/PD integration and PDRegistry.ca). No links you say! Well, they are mostly out there in the ether so you can do investigation to find out what these cool projects are that I’ve been working on for a couple of years, seriously!
SIDENOTE: For all you friends of Open Clip Art Library and ccHost, a few of us will be heading to Berkeley to meet at Mudrakers Cafe at 2 PM this Thursday, June 26, 2008 until whenever (~5 PM) to hack with legendary hacker, Victor Stone on ccHost 5.0, the engine behind ccMixter.org, Open Clip Art Library and Open Font Library. I want to do some code fun and not just my talky talk I do mostly these days.
Heya, my buddy Christopher Willits, who did a ccMixter remix contest previously, is playing in Southern China, including in Guangzhou, and please go see it for many different reasons! I wish I was in China to go see him play right now, but in SF for some more weeks.
Photo by Buzz Andersen
Here are the show dates from his site:
CHINA TOUR DATES - CHRISTOPHER WILLITS AND DICKSON DEE
Confirmed dates for China, right after last shows in Japan.. very excited for this.
:: Christopher Willits / Dickson Dee - South China Tour ::
JUNE 26th - SHENZHEN CITY
Mooka Spaceaddress: F3 Block,Mooka Space,Enping Road,Oversea Chinese Town, Shenzhen, China
http://www.myspace.com/mookaspace
time:20:00
ticket:50 RMB
organized by: Noise Asia
co-organized by: Mooka SpaceJUNE 27th - GUANGZHOU CITY
Gula Spaceaddress: NO.1 Jian She Liu Ma Lu, Guangzhou, China
http://www.myspace.com/gulatang
time:20:00
ticket:50 RMB
organized by: Noise Asia & Gula SpaceJUNE 28th - FOSHAN CITY
Ninliho Galleryadd:No.1402,Hai’er road,Guicheng,Nanhai,Foshan,Guangdong
http://www.sayyes.cn/blog
time:20:00
ticket:free
organized by: Ninliho Gallery & Noise Asialinks:
CHRISTOPHER WILLITS
http://www.christopherwillits.com
http://myspace.com/christopherwillits
http://www.overlap.orgDICKSON DEE
http://www.myspace.com/dicksondee
http://www.dicksondee.com
http://www.dicksondee.com/blog/
Download the latest copy of your favorite editor everone!!!
More from Bryce’s post:
The Inkscape community today is announcing the release of the newest
version of its open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape 0.46 is a
major update that introduces native PDF support. The implementation of
PDF support in Inkscape provides an easy, open source solution to
editing PDF documents.Tons of new features and performance improvements are included in this
release. Dialogs now have the ability to be docked to the editing
window. Gradients can be edited completely on-canvas. The new Paint
Bucket Tool fills bounded areas with color. A new 3D Box tool helps
create perspective-correct drawings. A new Tweak tool provides an
intuitive method for editing paths and painting objects. The new Live
Path Effects feature can create “brushes” and various organic effects on
paths. Improvements to color management include support for color spaces
other than sRGB. Most SVG filters are now implemented, and a new
powerful UI is provided for editing filter stacks.Downloading Inkscape 0.46
Inkscape 0.46 is already included by default in Ubuntu Hardy so just
install it normally. Ubuntu Gutsy users can install by adding the
following to System : Admin : Software Sources : Third-Party Software:deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/inkscape.testers/ubuntu gutsy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/inkscape.testers/ubuntu gutsy mainMacintosh OS X users can download a Leopard Universal package from our
SourceForge site:http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93438
Packages for Fedora, Debian, Windows, and other platforms should be
coming soon.For more information
Complete Release Notes for 0.46:
http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ReleaseNotes046Community Contributed Screenshots:
http://inkscape.org/screenshots/
Here are the example screenshots demo’ing 0.46…its hot!
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The path changing modes of the new Tweak tool |
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The color changing modes of the new Tweak tool, |
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Inkscape 0.46 comes with a selection of stock patterns, |
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The use of effects which previously required to manually installed |
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The Paint Bucket tool works just like the Paint Bucket tool |
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With SVG Filters and Inkscape’s new Live Path Effects, the available options and ease of editability to accomplish various visual effects has been greatly enhanced. The picture in this screenshot utilizes a number of features such as Tiled Clones, SVG Filters, Live Path Effects, Clipping and Masking, Multi-stop Gradients and more. This screenshot shows the parameters used on a patch of hair created with the Stitch Sub-Curves Path Effect. Additionally, you can see how handy having docked dialogs is to un-clutter the workspace with the side benefit of increased productivity. To see the full version of this picture you can click here. |
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The Path along Path effect can curve a path along another path. When this effect is applied to path A (called skeleton), another path B (called pattern) can then be passed as a parameter. The result is that path B is bent along path A. With the node edit tool, path A can be editted on-canvas and the result is updated live. This provides a direct equivalent of “vector brushes” or “skeletal strokes” features in other vector editors. |
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This example shows how the new hatching techniques can be used to produce a traditional |
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Several new features were added to the Calligraphic pen to make Inkscape capable of the |
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Now all guidelines are angled. The usual horizontal and vertical guidelines |
Here are my slides from my presentaiton at National Digital Archive Program Annual Conference in Taipei:
Five years ago the actual implementation of an accessible worldwide digital library or archive existed in the land of fairytales. With the rise of Free and Open culture, decreased hardware costs, and cheap Internet access in some countries of the world, the ability to actualize these myths on a grand scale on the Internet became possible. Still however, the legal hurdles randomly scattered by copyright in jurisdictions around the world erected a major barricade for accessing knowledge. Copyright law generally has increased confusion around how creative works may be used. With the introduction of Creative Commons in 2003, these issues were addressed with clearly explained copyright licenses, a clear public domain dedication, and a brilliant international community consisting of 46+ International jurisdictions supporting the commons.
This presentation surveys the major digital archiving initiatives,
museums, and digital libraries around the world which use Creative Commons licenses. It also presents Creative Commons involvement with the Open Library (http://demo.openlibrary.org) to create a site where books and other media are edited collaboratively wiki-style by people around the world to help determine the copyright status of these works. The myths of lore are to be debunked.
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