What if YouTube suddenly decides to reserve the right to say what is art and what it's not art? What if YouTube decides that films and television shows may contain full nudity but  videos  from the user community are blocked if they also contain full nudity? What if??? It's already happening.

For YouTube:

- video art with nudity isn't allowed,

- commercial entertainment with nudity is allowed.

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This is a short documentary about Nina Paley and Sita Sings The Blues. Free Culture, Copyleft, Copyright issues and (the art of) Animation are the main themes of this great short doc.

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Our mission: to highlight the economic, artistic, and social harm caused by monopoly-based distribution methods, and to demonstrate how freedom-based distribution is better for artists and audiences.

The band's name is Neon Choir. And this EP artwork and cd cover were created with Blender.

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Interested in learning more or starting explore the world of video editing with GNU/Linux? 4 articles you should check

YouTube Videos With Linux: Part 1

YouTube Videos With Linux: Part 2

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Just a few minutes ago, I was exploring the delicious list of Neural, a great online magazine about new media art and hacktivism, and came across this:

Kenji Kojima / RGB MusicLab: "RGB MusicLab converts RGB (Red, Green and Blue) value of an image and surface points (X, Y, Z) of 3D object to chromatic scale sounds"

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Copyright Criminals is another documentary about sampling and the copyright problems we face.

From the website:

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This is a small list of text about making money or making a living with free content. I guess there are a lot of artists (i.e. musicians, painters, animators, etc.) trying to find a way to make it work. Well, you can find here a lot of suggestions, hope you can find your way to "make it work".

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I was looking around at Stash Magazine website and ended up searching for blender :) It seems that Blender was used (among other tools) to produce these movies:

Title:    Audi TT
Type:    viral
Director:    Matt Pyke
Animation:    Universal Everything

http://vimeo.com/1919712

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A complete beginners manual for Ubuntu, featuring comprehensive guides, How Tos and information on anything you need to know after first installing Ubuntu.

"Branching out" by Robert J. Tiess

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Woman by ~zombiwoof on deviantART

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http://blenderart.org/

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The things I cannot understand by ~greaterorlessthan on deviantART

Here's a list (in alphabetical order) of some great GIMP artists that I came across in the last few weeks:

Arwassa (aka Yolanda Perez): mostly inkscape but also digital painting with gimp - http://arwassa.blogspot.com/

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Open Source Publishing wins a Fernand Baudin prize for the book: Tracks in eletr(on)ic fields.

Source: OSP gagne le prix Fernand Baudin (Calcyum.org)

Create: "We catalyze communication and sharing between Free and Open Source creative software communities like Inkscape, Gimp, Scribus, Open Clip Art library, Open Font Library and more. We do Libre Graphics Meeting and share Specifications."

There's a new place for all Free artists interested in desktop publishing and color palettes, it's called "Open Color Standard" and it's "the place to discuss the development of an open color standard that can free people from the grips of owners of color. "

Everyone interested in color palettes, desktop publishing and printing knows what Pantone is and means. In short, it's a stupid situation...

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