Sunday, March 22, 2009

Old People Reviewing Animal Collective

I found videos on Stereogum of various older folks reviewing Animal Collective's most recent album, "Merriweather Post Pavillion."  I'm just posting them because I found the reactions to be absolutely hilarious.  It's crazy how younger people are so much more open to eccentric music and how undesirable the sound is to those brought up a long time ago.



Friday, March 6, 2009

Creative Commons

Lawrence Lessig has founded a non-profit organization called Creative Commons.  It's primary goal is to expand the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.  I think that Creative Commons is a great organization and is very necessary in the culture that we live in.  It will allow much more creativity to circulate while still maintaining legality.  The Creative Commons licenses put the users in control of what which rights they reserve and which they do not.  This will eliminate the fear of copyright infringement because the works are being offered to the users to remix or change up.