Author: Leslie

Finally! I’ve made a new Creative Lube podcast. You can get it off iTunes or here.

Nick Onken has posted some ideas he learned at a recent conference. Everyone should read the post.

Yesterday was World Copyright Day. Damn. I missed it (I claim my Civil Procedure 2 final as an affirmative defense…um…I mean excuse). To try and make up a bit for not letting y’all know about it, here is an interesting blurb from the Copyright Alliance.

Seems the new administration is taking copyright/IP protection seriously, or at least they are talking about it in a good way. Sure, this particular event was about the entertainment industry (film & TV mostly), but all creatives are in the same boat as the entertainment folks (music folks too, of course). We need to support all efforts at protecting IP.

I’d like to see more integration between the different organizations–across industries, I mean. I think we’ll get there. In the meantime, I’m hopeful about the future of IP, even with the frustrations I see in so many creative industries, I think we might just be heading towards some good solutions.

Back to the books for me… last exam tomorrow morning at 8am… Contracts 2.

Sorry for the lack of posts in the past few days. I’m in exam week and, until they are done on Saturday, my brain isn’t worth much outside of the legal issues I’ve had to study. I’m pretty sure most of you would be monumentally bored if I wrote about the supplemental jurisdictional issues associated with joinder rules or whether accidentally walking on property owned by another is actionable under trespass to land (worse, I could tell you about horizontal and vertical privities…trust me, you do not want to go there). Unfortunately, that’s about all I have in my brain for this week. Just get me through Saturday morning, and maybe a wee bit of celebration afterwards…

However, once that hell of exams is done, I will no longer be a 1L (unless I pull a spectacular fail) and that means I can start working with clients again! So if you’re interested, let me know.

Also, that means I’ll get back on the Creative Lube podcasts. I expect to get one out next week sometime.

But in the meantime just a bit more patience, please…
…and some positive thoughts wouldn’t go amiss. I’ll take all the cosmic help I can get! 🙂

Pirate Bay people convicted on copyright violation charges, fined millions and sentenced to one year in jail! Woo Hoo!

I love tigers. I’ve been lucky enough to pet them a couple of times, even kissing a fully-grown Siberian on its nose and playing with some babies. I just love cats–the bigger the better!

I was thus thrilled with this photo series. It combines two of my loves–tigers and portrait photography.

ASMP has posted a talk (video) I gave in Philly, derived from my SB2 lectures. This one is about your website and your portfolio. It’s about 25 minutes long, so get comfy.

Interesting use of media (billboards) here.

(Thx Brandon)

Here is an interesting series of lectures from MoMA on the history of the printed image…free, via iTunes.

While I’m hitting the books hard for my exams (they start Saturday!), you can enjoy these lectures about the history of print making and images as distributable objects. Enjoy!

I can’t stand marshmallow Peeps, but they do make for some interesting art.

(#10 is one of my faves just for the caption…)

Btw, I am breaking my own rule here and not even looking at the T&C for the contest. Some days you just have to enjoy the results of some other people’s work without thinking too hard. This is one of those days.