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BLACK MARCH
Thursday, March 1st 2012 to Saturday 31st March 2012With the continuing campaigns for Internet-censoring litigation such as SOPA and PIPA, and the closure of sites such as Megaupload under allegations of ‘piracy’ and ‘conspiracy’ the time has come to take a stand against music, film and media companies’ lobbyists.
The only way is to hit them where it truly hurts.
Their profit margins.March 2012 is the end of the 1st quarter in economic reports worldwide.
Do not buy a single record. Do not download a single song, legally or illegally. Do not go to see a single film in cinemas, or download a copy, Do not buy a DVD in the stores. Do not buy a videogame. Do not buy a single book or magazine.
Wait the 4 weeks to buy them in April: see the film later, etc. Holding out for just 4 weeks, maximum, will leave a gaping hole in media and entertainment companies’ profits for the 1st quarter, an economic hit which will in turn be observed by governments worldwide as stocks and shares will blip from a large enough loss of incomes.
This action can give a statement of intent:”We will not tolerate the Media Industries’ lobbying for legistation which will censor the internet.”
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SO to get all of my work/thoughts in one place and have one site for people to look at I have created a new blog where I will be posting everything from now on!
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Flickr pool.. →
I’ve created a flickr pool for my project, So people can download and print the 8 surfaces (the 1st 8 images in the pool) Stick them up, photograph them and upload the results. Join if you want to have a go!
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Matilda Saxow →
A designer Darren showed me yesterday, unfortunately theres only the one picture of her books which are relevant to my work.
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Affordance →
A term Darren told me about for my project yesterday, about how objects make us do a certain action.
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Yesterday…
Yesterday I went and had a chat with Darren to show him the results of changing my projects direction. The results where met with a good response and we discussed making a nice pdf to show the project as my final piece. Some other things we discussed were:
- Photoshopping multiples of the posters into places where posters would go (photos to come)
-To make a pad that hadn’t been ripped and used for the final piece.
- To put the images onto flickr so people can download them and do the activity themselves, So they can appreciate their surroundings more.
-Fittings and bits of walls we don’t appreciate and putting them in places where they look like they are holding themselves up - Ornamental plugs where industrial ones should go.
- The idea of affordance (Wiki definition to come)
- Taking images of things people have to interact with and putting them where people have to interact with something else (Photos of this to come)
All in all a very helpful chat.
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