Wednesday, September 7, 2011

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ted talk copyright

I thought the ted talk on the current copyright laws with multimedia was very interesting. i had seen a video with a similar argument called Rip Remix, i don't think it right that people shouldn't be able to use others artwork to create their own. all ideas come from previous ideas and as long as people are altering the original piece in some way than it should be legal. i didn't think the slideshow he used with his presentation was very exciting and i thought he could've used more examples like with music copyright laws and medicine copyright laws but i thought he got the point across well.

Tuesday, September 6, 2011

walk/ride/bike response

For the walk/ride/bike trip i went to the philadelphia museum of art with my girlfriend Maia. the trip started with picking Maia up around Drexel's campus which is usually pretty quick but because of all the rain took about half an hour, and then another twenty minutes to get to the museum, when Maia's roommate called her because she was locked out with a key. so we went back to the apartment to let her in and then back again to the museum. but the good thing was now there was almost nobody in the museum. at first we looked at the arms and armor especially the engraved rifle room but the majority of the trip was spent in the asian art galleries. after running around taking some pictures we decided that the japanese tee house room would be a good place to stop and sit down. we spent about 30 minutes in the tee house room and then wandered off into several asian galleries with a bunch of different sculptures and structures. the walk back to the car was more difficult than anticipated in the pouring rain and we lost our way searching for the parking garage around the building. all in all it was a fun trip and was interesting to take pictures throughout the whole trip.