RIP! A Remix Manifesto Showing in Shreveport

Last week, Chris Jay of the Robinson Film Center and I hosted a screening of RIP! A Remix Manifesto. Our turnout was fantastic: around 50 folks came out to see this fantastic doc about Girl Talk, remix culture, and copyright law. I highly recommend the movie to folks who are lost about why copyright law matters and who might think it only effects folks who want to pirate copyrighted material.

Robert Trudeau wrote a very nice review on his blog.

We packaged some open source software to give to folks with some of the following tools:

Audio Production:

• Audacity
• Ardour (mac only)
• Jokosher (windows only)

Graphics:

• Gimp
• Inkscape

Video/Motion:

• Avidemux
• Blender
• Pencil

Robinsonfilmcenter.org has launched!

I've been busy moving back across the country to Louisiana, but in the process, the brand new Robinson Film Center site launched, after much hard work and fun with Joomla! Many of you know I have a soft spot in my heart for the film center because of its ambitious media education program and brave programming in the deep south. They've been a blast to work with, and I highly recommend the popcorn salt that they use and keep at the concession stand for patrons like me.