Brooklynite Joshua Longo’s crazy animals are showing at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont through October 26th. Sweet for me: I’ll be in town this weekend. I’m hoping to check it out.

Posted August 30, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Dispatches, Photoblog. Tags: art, Joshua Longo, Longoland, Shelburne Museum, stuffed animals, vermont. Be the first one.

I love remixes, mashups, and covers. I love it when bad songs get good covers, I love it more when it’s a bad cover. I’m a fan of Coverville and I get excited every time I find yet another version of Smells Like Teen Spirit (hey, this is just a sampling: lullaby version, Patti Smith, [...]

Posted August 29, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: Chess, cover songs, mashups, music, NSFW, One Night In Bangkok, remixes, rock musicals, rock opera, rock operas, video, Vinylshakerz. Be the first one.

Not every song Johnny Cash has covered turned to gold (see Personal jesus), but Hurt is magic.

Posted August 15, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: covers, Hurt, Johnny Cash, music, video. One Comment.

Have you ever argued with a member of the Flat Earth Society? It’s futile, because fundamentally they don’t car if something is true or false. To them, the measure of truth is how important it makes them feel. If telling the truth makes them feel important, then it’s true. If telling the truth makes them [...]

Posted July 11, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Politics & Controversy. Tags: Louis Theroux, Ross Jeffries, truth. Be the first one.

If this doesn’t warm your heart, check to see that it’s not made of stone.

Posted March 10, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Dispatches, Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: book club, Heidi Dolamore, story. Be the first one.

Netflix for audio books: Simply Audiobooks. Though it makes me wonder why we don’t say “like a library for audiobooks where they send you the stuff you want.”

Posted March 10, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Dispatches, Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: audiobooks, libraries, netflix. One Comment.

I guess the criticism is that it’s one thing for somebody to open up their music for remixing, but an entirely different thing to do the same with a movie. Or is it? Is it (click re-fragmented)?

Posted November 20, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Copyrights & Intellectual Property, Dispatches. Tags: creative commons, radical trust, remix, remixability, The Tracey Fragments, Tracey Re-Fragmented. Be the first one.

Via Ryan: Brian Dettmer: Book Autopsies at Centripetal Notion.
awesome, book, books, art, sculpture

Posted October 23, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Blink, Books, Movies, Music, Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: art, awesome, book, books, sculpture. Be the first one.

Story: Timbuk2 develops a new line of messenger bags that features fabric made of recycled material (engineered by RootPhi). Some of the fabric contains a symbol that Target lawyers say is their logo. Target lawyers cease and desist Timbuk2.
Thing is, the trademarked Target logo is a roundel, commonly used around the world (easily recognized in [...]

Posted October 18, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Planes, Trains, & Automobiles. Tags: cease and desist, copyfight, roundel, symbols, target, Timbuk2, trademark. Be the first one.

Our intention is to feature “a series of books that challenge our beliefs and test our commitment to free speech,” but on this post about Holocaust denial I found myself unwilling (and unable) to link to the free, online PDF full text of David Irving’s Hitler’s War. And when we discovered it wasn’t in our [...]

Posted October 4, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy. Tags: banned books week, bbw, bbw2007, dilemma, holocaust denial, libraries, library. 3 Comments.