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Over in academia, it's finals time, but the receSs improv team over at George Washington University isn't compromising their weekend, which will mark the group's final show of 2007, over it. On their unofficial blog, The Colonialist, they're offering up reasons why their peers shouldn't either.
In the past, receSs alums have gone on to pursue real-life comic gigs, including TJ Miller (now on the ABC show "Carpoolers"), Herschel Bleefeld (who landed a role in Bruce Almighty) and Hilary Winston (a writer for "My Name Is Earl"). Already, last year's departing female senior Emily Axford has gotten her feet wet with New York City's Upright Citizens Brigade. Who knows what's in store for this year's all-star cast, which includes four newbies and a 100% increase in female population (from one to two).
The Colonialist was born in late October, and is already garnering about 300-500 unique visitors a day, according to receSs member and one Colonialist writer/founder Travis Helwig. He and three others (Kevin Mead, Darren Miller, Kirk Larsen) started the site, which muses about GWU hoops and DC Snacks delivery boys.
This Saturday at 11:59 p.m. -- technically almost Sunday per usual kooky receSs tradition -- they’ll perform inside the Marvin Center's Betts Theater (H and 21st St., NW). Tickets are $3.
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Wyneken belongs in the growing list of note-taking applications for GNOME, along with the Sticky Notes panel apps, Evolution, and Tomboy. Specifically designed for students' needs, it is equally well-suited to the random jottings that anyone might make during the course of their work, as well as letters, reports, presentations, and even man pages. Wyneken is built on LaTeX, so it allows for complex formatting when necessary, with the tradeoff of not having a WYSIWYG display.
Open your mouths and say ahhh for that appetizing pill that is seriously experimental art. Thanks to the folks at Washington Project for the ArtsCorcoran, you can get your fill tonight from 7 to 9 p.m. in Corcoran's Hammer Auditorium when they conclude their Experimental Media Series with Night #3.
It’s difficult to exaggerate just how far from the canvas we have come, and somewhat serendipitous that WPAC has chosen to present experimental media as part of the continuing ColorField.remix celebration, because back in the mid-1960s and 1970s, when the Washington Color School thrived in D.C.’s art scene, there was a rising anti-technology sentiment among counter-culturalists and artists. Today, digital art reigns supreme – it’s almost rare to see contemporary art that hasn’t been manipulated in Photoshop 10.0. That being said, work in the Experimental Media Series is inspired by Color Field artists or serves as a twenty-first century reinterpretation of the movement.
Shown: Wobbe F. Koning, Multi Dimensional Eye Virus 2.2, 2006
META, whose piece stole Night #2 a few weeks ago, is an experimental artist who dabbles in "generative computational processes" and can blow your mind. He pairs mathematical abstraction (imagine the visual representation of algorithms) with arousing, warm digital rhythm. Kolveiler is a multicolored deluge of HTML color values, a kaleidoscopic motion picture of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black, scored by a Casio chord gently humming in the background. At times, META’s work seems to come straight from the looms of traditional African raphia textiles and sometimes is suggestive of digitally rendered sand dunes; Kolveiler is perfect anthropological robot art.
If you are prepared for a flurry of pixels, doppler swirls, and muffled, synthesized sounds, don’t miss this last night of the Experimental Media Series. Night #3 will feature the work of Alan Callander, the favored winner of the project’s $500 Honorable Mention prize, along with 15 other favorite artists from the first two nights. Although some of the pieces chosen for Night #2 were little more than mildly amusing screensavers, if any of the selections for Night #3 are even close to META’s Kolveiler, it's worth attending. It's free and open to the public.
WPAC's Experimental Media Series - ColorField.remix, Night #3, will be held at The Frances and Armand Hammer Auditorium, Corcoran Gallery of Art (New York Avenue entrance), 500 Seventeenth Street NW.
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That’s a quote from Wikis and Blogs in Education, one of three educational remixes from students of open content pioneer David Wiley.
The other two are Interviewing Basics and the Open Water Project, an excellent disaster preparedness video that probably everyone should watch.
Each project is licensed under CC Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike and incorporates CC licensed and public domain audio, images, and video as well as original materials.
Creative Commons and CC board member John Buckman will be hosting a CC Business Mixer on Thursday, Jan. 18th from 6pm-8pm at the Creative Commons offices in San Francisco. If you have an idea for a Creative Commons related business, this is your chance to present your idea to other like minded entrepreneurs and network with VCs. Have an idea you would like to present? Email John Buckman at johnbuckman@creativecommons.org.
Details: Creative Commons Business Mixer for CC Entrepreneurs
6pm-8pm, Thursday January 18th
Creative Commons
543 Howard Street, 5th Floor
San Francisco
Red Hat Magazine has a great interview with Randall Munroe, creator of xkcd, a “webcomic of romance, saracasm, math, and language” that’s published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license. Excerpt:
A former NASA contractor, Munroe now ekes out his living from xkcd. “I’m still sort of transitioning over to doing this full time,” he says, “A lot of my time I spend packing t-shirts, which is what I make my primary income off now. I’m always responding to email, reading forum posts, and having a regular life, being social, and getting outside and seeing interesting things.”
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Munroe sees Creative Commons as the logical step in doing business today. “There’s this idea that there are the real business people who want to make money, versus the kids who want free stuff,” he says, “But no one seems to realize that Creative Commons serves both of those. It isn’t just an idealism of wanting culture to be free. It makes business sense.”
The Internet, Munroe says, has changed the rules of cartoon syndication, “Bill Waterson worked for, what, 5 or 10 years on Calvin and Hobbes, before he really made it big. Now, any kid with a notebook or a Wacom tablet writes something and makes it available for free.”
And making money?
“Once you develop a big following, there are plenty of other opportunities for business. T-shirts. Merchandise. Speaking engagements.”