EdWatkins

bio:Artist, Scientist, Filmmaker. Just trying to do something a little different in the World.
website:http://naturalscinema.com

Recent Actions
Comment Threads

Recent Actions

Commented on So what happened to the original Apollo tapes, anyway?
The conclusion my team and I have reached is that they were deaussed and erased. They're gone. The original tapes are gone. I think the word is "degaussed" (i.e randomly re-aligning the magnetic domains on a tape to erase it)...
Commented on UK National Portrait Gallery threatens Wikipedia over scans of its public domain art
...the BBC jealously guards its additional DVD income and shies away from any kind of public archive that might undermine it. I believe you're wrong about this. I know for a fact that the BBC are currently internally beta testing...
Commented on BB Video + PopSci: Frozen on Video - Theo Gray Sculpts in Solid Mercury, with Some Help from Liquid Nitrogen
Ha, love it! Not so long ago (about a decade) at school we used to play with mercury in science club all the time. I remember spilling some on the lab floor and trying to mop it up with a...
Commented on Weird hums in the UK
Ahh.. darn it! Just mentioning something like this is enough to cause me to start doing it. My computer fan sounds really loud now.... It's like when someone tells you not to think about your breathing and suddenly you find...
Commented on DiamondNite fake diamond detector
Real lab created diamonds are not "fake", and using the term 'synthetic' is misleading. The correct term used in the jewelry trade is 'created' diamonds. To use the term 'created' the stone must have the same chemical composition as a...
Commented on The inevitable peroration of cheap R/C helicopters
Flying swearwords + TV news reporters = giggles....
Commented on Split tongue video
Awww... it's like a little pair of tongue hands. Make them clap!!...
Commented on There aren't that many top-end film cameras out there for RED's new Digital Still and Motion Camera System to replace
I own a RED ONE, I'm a full time Indie filmmaker. There are far more of us than "Professional" Studio Filmmakers. Its the Starbucks business plan; create the supply at the right price, and the demand will follow....
Commented on The use of Electricity for lighting is in no way harmful to health
Ooh.. I love the sound of that. An old fashioned brass key in the wall that turns on a light....
Commented on Election Eve
O.k ignore the rant, but this has been bugging me. Why use touch screen voting machines for something as critical as an election? They are prone to "drifting" and need to be re-calibrated regularly. Two qualities not suited to an...
Commented on Zacuto's filmmaker kit turns any DSLR into a steadicam (Update: No it doesn't)
Zacuto ain't cheap ($2,500+ for a setup, with mattebox and follow focus like that). Waste of money buying gear like that to use with a Nikon D90. The video the D90 produces is awful, horrible rolling shutter, makes people look...
Commented on Irrelevant: BBG presents a short techno remix of John McCain grunting
Vote McCain/Penguin 2008! After watching that clip, any one else see the similarity between McCain and The Penguin? Take a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg1Rynsy6k4...

Recent Actions from EdWatkins

Comment Threads

dros commented on UK National Portrait Gallery threatens Wikipedia over scans of its public domain art
as an aside, many museums don't even own the copyright to likenesses of their own collections! -that honour usually goes to large photo agencies, or descendants of the artists. so perhaps the National Gallery doesn't even have the right to take photos of these paintings themselves, without paying a hefty fee to a picture library!...
redesigned commented on UK National Portrait Gallery threatens Wikipedia over scans of its public domain art
I don't get it. They are funded by the public and hence are required by law to let people into the museum for free to view the artwork, yet they somehow think they can copyright, control, and charge people for the digital viewing of these same works? Isn't that just a digital extension of what they are supposed to be doing for free? Making these images available to the public. What a shame they lost sight of and are undermining their intended purpose, allowing the public to view these images. If they need a revenue stream they should make high...
CrosbieFitch commented on UK National Portrait Gallery threatens Wikipedia over scans of its public domain art
A revenue stream from the digitisation of oil paintings that doesn't involve suspending the public's liberty - to freely share and build upon published works of art? And that doesn't simply constitute taxation? Tricky. It may take some time finding such a revenue mechanism... The Digital Art Auction is a means of determining the equivalent retail price of a digitally representable work of art if each bidder paid the same price (not exceeding their valuation). Thus, if 3,300 images cost £1,000,000 to digitise then each image need only fetch £300 at auction to break even. £300 could be raised by...
Deidzoeb commented on UK National Portrait Gallery threatens Wikipedia over scans of its public domain art
Am I right in thinking the national gallery is like a public museum? On the one hand, I understand they need income to meet their costs. On the other hand, this seems fundamentally opposed to the mission of any public museum, displaying their artifacts for the public....
teufelsdroch commented on UK National Portrait Gallery threatens Wikipedia over scans of its public domain art
@38 oh yeah, that IS the issue here. Once the hi-res copies go up on wikipedia, they get distributed to poster makers. Once you know that the NPG is willing to give out lo-res versions, this entire story turns to pudding. As others have noted, photographs aren't allowed in museums in order to protect the physical paintings, not the copyright. And, is no one else bothered by the lack of distinction between the BRITISH public paying for the museum and the WORLD public consuming the copies? Should the BBC make its programming free to its citizens? I dunno...NPR and CSPAN...

Responses to Comments from EdWatkins

EdWatkins

Recent Actions

Comment Threads

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States and other countries.