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Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
July 18, 2008
Actor Joss Whedon Neil Patrick Harris (Doogie Howser, if you remember HIM at all) has got a fantastic project going on for all of us geeks out there. Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog is a project that embraces song, dance, and the average life of a super-villain that most of us never get to see. With a comedy style reminscent of Scrubs, you’re sure to like this light-hearted tribute to the world-seizing, Wonderflonium-stealing, broadway-singing villain in all of us.
By the way, you might want to get to the site before Midnight of July 20th, 2008. The episodes won’t be available for free viewing anymore, but they WILL be put up for sale shortly afterwards (to pay the crew that so generously worked on this project for free, I imagine). They will be available both for download and DVD. Get visiting, and spread the word!
16 July Photohunt News
July 13, 2008Because of some family business (Mama Seelowe’s wedding– yay!) neither I nor Welcome Doobie will be able to guarentee an appearance to this week’s Photohunt. Never fear, though! Standing in our place will be our newest Photohunt Mod, Faust Milev. He’s a longtime participator, and just as dedicated to Photohunt and the VAA as we are!
So be sure to give Faust a warm welcome as our newest Photohunt Moderator, and enjoy this week’s Photohunt!
Alright, alright…
July 5, 2008It is time to move on. But first, allow me to make a couple of announcements in regards to the ballet:
email and chat logs make very clear that you did the work for the ballet in a cooperative and open fashion, just as we all do our work for the ballet. at the time, the work was done for the ballet and for the use of the ballet, with no conditions.
then, many months later, you get a hair up your butt and start to assert copyright, send flaky email, etc. such things are best ignored, why feed a troll.
but, what you say in your blog is libel. if i were you, i would think about that a bit, and get off your high horse before it throws you.
by espresso saarinen July 1, 2008 at 11:50 pm edit comment
Espresso has always been a big man, you see, very quick to make mountains out of molehills and issue threats where they’re not needed. But I digress– his brash remarks, ill-informed as they may be (I don’t think he took the time to look up the definition of libel before writing that comment) made me reconsider my stance on the whole ordeal.
There’s no need to take any of them to court for a number of reasons. The time, the hassle, the money– Inarra simply is not worth the trouble. I never wanted money of any from them in the first place (it was not mentioned anywhere in the agreement I asked Inarra to sign) so taking them to court would be moot.
So, to drive home my point, and to dismount from my “high horse”, pull the “hair out of my butt” and stop being a “troll”, I have decided to release the images that I created for the Second Life Ballet into Creative Commons so that they (and anyone else in the art community) can use them as much as they want for non-profit purposes. It’s exactly like the agreement I offered SLB, except now they don’t have exclusive usage of my artworks.
You can find the works with the CC licenses at my DeviantART gallery.
I think that solves things nicely. On to bigger things!
One last chance…
July 1, 2008After a long hiatus, I regret to inform my readers of more legal troubles with the Second Life Ballet, now operating under the company title of Ballet Pixelle.
Upon visiting the SL5B ground and wandering around for a bit, I stumbled across the Ballet Pixelle display, featuring a couple of my copyrighted works without my permission:
In response, I sent this to Inarra Saarinen, the ballet’s founder and director, in a notecard:
Inarra,
Upon visiting the SL5B fairgrounds this evening, I saw your theater display and saw a few of my copyrighted pieces on display without my permission.
Please remove the following items from your display by no later than July 6th, 2008:
*The Second Life Ballet logo
*The “Windows” Production poster imageYou can find the copyrights to these pieces at the following links:
http://cyanidebutterfly.deviantart.com/art/Second-Life-Ballet-Logo-55885634
http://cyanidebutterfly.deviantart.com/art/quot-Windows-quot-Poster-v-1-0-56441425
On February 28th, 2008, I sent you an email offering an agreement stating that you and your company may continue using my works as long as they were not used to gain profit. Upon recieving no response, I resent the email on March 1st, 2008 in case you hadn’t recieved it due to faulty email transmission, and still I recieved no response. Signing the agreement is still an option, because I do not want to deny you the ability to use my copyrighted works if you so desire. However, if you refuse or if I recieve no response by July 6th, 2008, I’m afraid I will have to take legal action against you and/or Ballet Pixelle.
Thank you for your attention,
Cyanide Seelowe/Jackie Steffen
cyanide.seelowe@yahoo.com
I’m at my wit’s end. For someone who supports the arts in Second Life, she doesn’t seem terribly concerned with helping her peers protect their intellectual property. I sincerely hope this doesn’t end in a messy legal battle… there’s no need for it to, as I think the agreement I offered was pretty generous.
Here’s to hoping.
Wtf Have You Been?!
May 24, 2008I’m sure someone out there in internetland has been asking that question!
Unfortunately, I’ve been working. My typical work-week at the museum has blossomed into something upwards of 56 hours, with anywhere between 24 and 48 hours of off-time in between. Body Worlds is in full-swing at the moment, and since the exhibit closes on June 1st, tickets have been selling out quite rapidly. Add to that the fact that I’m the only woman on the custodial team, and thus the only one capable of quickly and efficiently cleaning all of the women’s bathrooms in the building, and that adds up to me raking in more hours (and thus, more monies).
I’ve been having trouble keeping up with my commitments as of late. I think it’s become quite obvious that I’ve been slacking with things like… archiving speedbuilds and talking about Photohunts and whatnot. I’m rather tired when I come home from the Museum, so doing those things are more or less auto-pilot for me. Don’t get me wrong, it’s still fulfilling because everyone loves it and has fun, but still a bit tiring. Worry not, though– Photohunt will continue to run strong, regardless of 56-hour work weeks!
Other than that, I’ve got some family visits coming up, some random summer vacations and other adventures. Who knows– maybe I can get my work schedule to be predictable enough so that I can host multiple Photohunts throughout the week. We’ll just have to wait and see!
Masterpiece Theater
April 25, 2008My esteemed co-founder of the Virtual Artist Alliance, Rezago Kokorin, was kind enough to share this “bit of inspired insanity”. As such, I would like to share it with all of you. Thanks Rez!
LEGOs+Steampunk+Star Wars=Nerdgasm
April 11, 2008
Photo and nerdgasm courtesy of gizmodo.com.
While I am not the most profound Star Wars nerd you will ever meet, you will find upon getting to know me that I am particularly rabid for all things Steampunk. As such, combining the awesome starship design of Star Wars with the Victorian flare of the Steampunk subculture and the infinite building capabilities of LEGOs results in an instant winner in my book.
The above TIE Fighter was entered into a contest called “Steam Wars” in which LEGO enthusiasts were invited to redesign the ships and vehicles of Star Wars to fit into the steampunk genre– while the TIE was my favorite of the entries shown, all of the others were stunning pieces of work that you will simply have to see for yourself.
Flight of the Conchords in Brew City!
April 11, 2008
I am pleased and excited to announce that Flight of the Conchords is going to be at the Riverside theater in Milwaukee on May 11th– and I’m totally going to see them! Weeeee! I was informed of this by my former flatmate, Tara, while I was working a later shift at work, and she offered to get some tickets for me the next day when the box office opened. She scored some sweet center-right, fourth row tickets, the lovely woman! Apparently the line wasn’t as bad as we thought it would be… I guess FotC is not as popular in Milwaukee as it is in other places. Uncultured swine!
Since Brent’s birthday is coming up, the tickets also double as a gift~ so happy birthday to my favorite geek <3
Oh yes. This excites me.
Beijing 2008 Adidas Ads– “Impossible is Nothing”
April 10, 2008Say what you will about the Olympics this year– Adidas has some kick-ass ads that embody the true spirit of the event: togetherness. Illustrators Luming and Lance Ma drew the backgrounds by hand and added the athletes in later… amazing:
