Apture test part 2
What a newspaper article could look like online
Below I’ve taken some snippets from an article and in a non-profit transformative use of them, used Apture to add things I would have liked Boston.com to help me find. I’m not shilling for Apture, by the way, just testing it for fun.
A different spin
Mashing audio and video, trio plans to remix tonight’s presidential debate
By Joan Anderman, Globe Staff September 26, 2008
Tonight - if the plans stick - tens of millions of voters will be on their sofas staring at the television as Barack Obama and John McCain duke it out in the first debate of the presidential campaign. Here in Boston, several hundred will take in quite a different view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, where the three-man audiovisual performance group Sosolimited will present what they’re calling a “live remix” of the presidential debate.
Don’t be misled by the remix tag. “ReConstitution 2008″ isn’t a dance-floor version of the McCain-Obama conversation, although John Rothenberg, Eric Gunther, and Justin Manor confess with horror that some folks assume they’ll be spinning techno music during the point-counterpoint….
At Sosolimited’s headquarters - a.k.a. Small Design Firm, the Cambridge interactive design group where all three have day jobs…
Sosolimited will stage live remixes of the second and third presidential debates, as well - Oct. 7 at the Art Directors Club in New York and Oct. 15 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
Asked about the threat of copyright infringement, Manor bemoans the fact that CNN is releasing the broadcast under a Creative Commons license, which allows the footage to be modified or redistributed.
“We’d love a cease-and-desist letter,” Manor says. “We’d love the free publicity.”
Apture Testing
This is for the good of journalistkind, honest. I’m testing the thing I saw at ONA 2008 which was the coolest looking demo ever. Apture. Despite its deceptive simplicity it actually took me a few tries to realize that I can’t edit within WP editing window, have to publish the post and then use Apture to add stuff. I’m doing this at my personal blog which my pals in Oakland host for me because my other blog is on a WP installation managed by the good geeks at Berkman who insist on doing some kind of due diligence before adding new plugins to their installation. Imagine.
It’s tempting to do a kind of mad lib of stuff it’d be fun to link to, remembering my trips to Samarkand and Petra, wondering whatever happened to Peter Sellars, and wondering which picture of my friend the supertalented Robert Mealy will turn up.
