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Visual Artists, Take Action: Don’t Let Congress Orphan Our Work

Under CURRENT COPYRIGHT LAW, any work you create is automatically protected, even if you share the work via novel channels like Flickr or Photobucket.

The Orphan Works 2008 Legislation would change that. It would force you to register every image you make with privately-held commercial registries. All unregistered works will be exposed as potential “orphans” for commercial infringement. In other words, Congress proposes to remove automatic copyright protection, opening the possibilty of unlimited, unlicensed and unathorized COMMERCIAL use of your works.

This site makes it easy for you to communicate with your members of Congress. Please feel free to use the templates below and when you fill out your address, your members of Congress will be automatically identified. Non U.S. artists please go here for a sample letter and the U.S. agencies to contact.

TAKE ACTION TODAY and tell your colleagues.

Reslience

My friend Henry is having a solo exhibition of photos from Friday, May 9, 2008 to Saturday, May 31, 2008, called “Reslience”. Check it out!

Boo Hoo Canon!

Dear Giebel Thomas:

Thank you for your inquiry regarding the software for your EOS 5D.  We
value you as a Canon customer and appreciate the opportunity to assist
you.

Unfortunately, there currently is no Canon software available for any
64-bit Windows Operating System, only the 32-bit versions of these.  At
this time, whether any 64-bit software will be written for your EOS 5D
or not is unknown.  We apologize for any inconvenience.

Please let us know if we can be of any further assistance with your
EOS 5D.

Thank you for choosing Canon.

Sincerely,

Michael
Technical Support Representative

Time to curate… See if you can find mine!

Brooklyn Rises

My friend Trevor is having a solo exhibition of photos on April 19th, called “Brooklyn Rises”. Check it out!

Arthur C. Clarke, Premier Science Fiction Writer, Dies at 90

Rest In Peace! Here’s an alternate (gay) obituary for one of my all-time favorite science fiction authors: On The Search for Gay Obituaries: Arthur C. Clarke.

Cable Storage

Lifehacker recently had a post titled “Top 10 Ways to Get Cables Under Control” so I thought I’d share my top tip for making sure I always have the right cable at my fingertips.

The over-the-door shoe storage thing keeps them visible and untangled. Also useful for dongles!

This is especially useful when I do some “tethered shooting” and need umpteen special cables to get it working.

Radio Day

Atomische photo of the day for March 4, 2008. This was taken in Gowanus (Brooklyn) New York City, on the future site of Whole Foods (if they can manage to extract and clean up all the toxic waste in the soil).

Bookmarks: FFFOUND!

I’ve become totally addicted to the collaborative image bookmarking site FFFOUND! It’s a constantly changing lightbox of images: photos, diagrams, bookcovers, art, design and anything visual. Although some users get heavy with the cheesecake, overall it’s really interesting. If anyone there is reading this, please invite me!

Untitled Airman

Atomische photo of the day for February 26, 2008

Spent a Sunday at one of my favorite places in the city: the Brooklyn Museum. Here is a view of Untitled, by Michael Richards (1963-2001), from his Tuskegee Airmen Series, 1997.