Funny to see that this episode comes out shortly after Soutpark decided to put all their episodes online with no geographic restrictions. You can’t check this episode online yet due to contractual issues but it will be available in June. If you can’t wait, you know the drill.

Incidentally all the browsers featured in the computers in Southpark are Mac OS Safari showing a distressing “You are not connected to the internet message” (The TV station though shows a IE not found page).

Check the full Southpark online episodes guide here.

Visit the 21 Steps website

And by the way, any band that features me in their acknowledgements if of course the best band in the world.

See them tonight in la Sala Monasterio

Read about the concert I saw by La Banda here.

In a nutshell: while you are concentrating on driving you can become blind to events that you would normally notice. This “inattention blindness” is in most cases the reason why motorists collide with cyclists.

Never heard of “inattention blindness”? Try yours at Do The Test or watch this video very carefully.

Now you can answer the question: why would this video never work on TV?

The campaign is sponsored by Transport for London

Well, history repeats. A couple of weeks ago I found a gem on YouTube called Daft Hands, where a couple of hands with text on it danced to Daft Punk’s Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger (over 16 Million views as I’m writing this). The video spawned dozens of replies of people with text all over the body dancing to the tune.

My surprise was when a week ago I saw a commercial on TV by Spanish telecom Telefónica, where two hands with the terms of a special offer danced to a copycat of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.

Talking about Web 2.0 changing traditional media!

Here’s a nice video where you can see both and judge for yourself. First the commercial and next the original version.

Here’s a link to Daft Hands on YouTube.
Marvel yourself at Telefónica’s website (the 4th telecom in the world). God!

Here’s a picture:

Check Bartholl’s other projects where he explores the interactions between the web and the physical world.

www.datenform.de - Aram Bartholl’s website

The film deals with copyrights, copylefts, intellectual property and how the net is changing well established business models while allowing for reach and creativity for the rest of us.

In the documentary you’ll find:

• Danger Mouse talking about his highly successful The Grey Album where he mashed Jay-Z Black Album with Beatles White Album (thus The Grey Album). It violated all kinds of copyrights but it’s a masterpiece. Obviously it was downloaded by millions, earning Danger Mouse just credibility and respect. Fancy a torrent?

Here’s the video with John Lennon breakdancing to Ringo Star’s DJing.

• Musician Girl Talk. He performs live with a laptop mixing and mashing every conceivable sample creating new real time songs. He would be willing to pay the billions he should, according to current copyright laws, for using the original songs, but even if he had the money it would take him no less than 50 years to get all the permissions from the owners.
• The Brazilian DJs from the Techno Brega scene in the north of Brazil (a kind of Techno Kitsch, don’t try at home). They mix and remix whatever they listen on the radio and download from the net, Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy this time. After that they distrubute their CDs for free expecting to attract fans to their live acts, a business model that is catching up in the traditional music industry.
• Larry Lessig, author of Free Culture and creator of the Creative Commons licensing model, talking about the need to protect intellectual property but also on how too restrictive copyright laws hinder creativity and access to culture by everybody.
• The guys from Pirate Bay in Sweden. Well you know them.

Funny at the end when Girl Talk remixes Gnarls Barkley’s (Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse) remix of Crazy done by the Brazilian Techno Brega DJ, and turns it into something completely new. You could see him rocking the house with this small sample and his laptop.

Check the trailer at the Creative Commons website
Watch the movie online
Download Good Copy Bad Copy from The Pirate Bay

Their motto “we cause scenes”. Judge for yourself.

Yesterday 185.000 views and today 630.000. Going viral. I’ll talk about it Thursday on the radio.

Check their other actions in Improveverywhere.com.

Heres one of my Flickr sets seen with Piclens.

Do yourself a favor and download this beauty.

Once you have it up and running try it with the just created group to save Flickr from Microsoft.