Submit Response » eiff http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog Tue, 10 May 2011 01:19:15 +0000 en-us hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 Positive Piracy Panel http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2008/06/14/positive-piracy-panel/ http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2008/06/14/positive-piracy-panel/#comments Sat, 14 Jun 2008 17:37:24 +0000 http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/?p=1354 I’m taking part in a panel discussion on Positive Piracy at the mighty EIFF next week. We’ll be talking about the way cinephiles are increasingly turning to the web to get their fix of rare and cult cinema, the impact of digital distribution on future film-making, how Bittorrent is way cool, and stuff like that.

The other panelists are Alex Orr, whose bonkers-sounding horror flick Blood Car is screening at the Festival, Mike Gubbins of Screen International, Mark Adams from the ICA and Eddy Leviten from the slightly scary Federation Against Copyright Theft, who should ensure that the discussion doesn’t end up being a big file-sharing love-in. So will I, in fact—despite the two terabytes of media obtained by questionable means currently littering my hard drives, I’m pretty ambivalent about, you know, nicking things people have worked hard to make.

If you’d like to come along, it’s at 6pm on Wednesday 25th June at the Traverse and costs a measly fiver.

In other EIFF news, vote for Hannah in The Herald Fashion Awards! Should she win, I will be demanding a credit for spending countless hours waiting for her outside the changing rooms of fashionable boutiques.

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Today’s Links (20/05/08) http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2008/05/20/todays-links-200508/ http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2008/05/20/todays-links-200508/#comments Tue, 20 May 2008 11:10:58 +0000 http://submitresponse.co.uk/weblog/2008/05/20/todays-links-200508/
  • There’s No Such Word As Firstly
    Weblog by Catherine Weir, one of the best graduates of Dundee’s Time Based Art programme this year.
  • The Fall of Gallerist Larry Salander — New York Magazine
    "Why is an El Greco worth less than a Koons? Gallerist Larry Salander called it a moral travesty, and decided, catastrophically, to do something about it."
  • The Symbols on My Flag (And What They Mean): newyorker.com
  • Typotheque: Eric Gill got it wrong; a re-evaluation of Gill Sans by Ben Archer
  • k-punk: The Place I Made The Purchase No Longer Exists
  • MSI Wind review: Te enamorarás! Yes, it’s an Eee-killer - Boing Boing Gadgets
    Not it’s not: at 10", it’s much too big. Though I wouldn’t mind if the Eee could claim 7hrs battery life.
  • Artes Mundi - Home Page
    Off to Cardiff to see the show soon.
  • Shirley Clarke: A retrospective - News - Edinburgh International Film Festival
    Really looking forward to this bit of the EIFF. (Note to EIFF web designers: make your video embeddable. What is this, 2005?)
  • Spillers Records, Cardiff - The Oldest Record Shop In The World.
    Will have to pop in here when I’m in Cardiff next week.
  • www.studio355.com
    Cheryl Field’s website - she makes kinetic sculpture.
  • FlexTD
    A utility that lets you enter iCal todos via a window that pops up when you hit a hotkey. Free.
  • J. G. Ballard - A Collector’s Guide
  • Ambit Magazine
  • Ironic Sans: Eyeglasses and the pushing up thereof
    I use Method #3.
  • Eye of the Goof: The Psychotronic Guide to Archive.org
    Cult cinema on Archive.org
  • Amazon Kindle Review
  • Favrd. Trickle-down egonomics for the twitter attention sp…
  • Literature and Latte - Scrivener
    Fancy word processor thing. I have no need for 99% of its features, but I’m still tempted, because you can set a target word count.
  • Firefox web browser | International versions: Get Firefox in your language
    Crikey Moses, Firefox 3 RC1 is ace on the Eee PC.
  • Remember everything. | Evernote Corporation
    This would seem to be a bloody remarkable application. The facility for text searching images is particularly cool (business cards/wine labels/handwritten notes snapped with a webcam all worked well for me). At last, computers can fix my fried memory!
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