Posts by Sacha
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Thanks, Lyndon - that story fleshes out another angle.
I don’t think its negatively impacting the sales potential of what it is sampling. I think its probably turning a lot of people onto different music, and a younger generation onto older [stuff] they wouldn’t potentially listen to.
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For me the main commentary is this. All bands by releasing music to the public, are asking for attention. You’re creating a character. Whether you’re doing it by creating a character like Radiohead who really tried to come off as artsy and intelligent – or whether you want to come across like Justin Timberlake, where you want to come across as hip and sexy, or whether you want to come across as 2 Live Crew, and be abrasive and offensive. You’re still creating a character. It doesn’t really represent you as a human being, and you’re selling that character.I think there is a big difference between samples/mashups and unaltered copying of the entire piece, and between established artists and new ones. American fair use provisions - and the consequent focus on concepts like 'commentary' and 'transformation' - also seem rather different in our country, from what others have said previously.
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Yep. It's when I do some of my best writing. Not enough lately tho.
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In a way, of course, it was an advantage to discover the canon myself, rather than being bashed over the head with it at university
I think you may be underestimating the tremendous skill and grace of the teachers who were part of the canon(s), knew them well personally and in turn trained up the next generation.
Just picking English and Film at one university during one time throws up names like Allen Curnow himself and colleagues like Roger Horrocks, Wystan Curnow, Albert Wendt, Nick Perry, Kendrick Smithyman, Brian Boyd and others.
No bashing involved, just an abundance of proud wonder. One of the benefits of being both small enough and connected enough. By no means the only way to learn but a very rich one.
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Start em young in th eco-city..
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Kristol wins on nepotism.
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Not letting abject ignorance interfere with opining
Damn - I was planning to quote that story in another context, when the timing were right. Greenwald writes such solid columns, though the comments are pretty much identical for each story.
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Heck no - only a couple of years until their next round of elections innit?
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On Thursday, the administration delivered to the Senate Armed Services Committee a waiver to Obama's "ethics pledge" for federal employees
Boy, that didn't take long for principle to be undermined. Ta, Craig.
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Heh. "Innocent" - I like that word. I guess we'd also have to test the hypothesis so beloved of our local online right about Auckland's daily rag.
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Refer previous thread - somewhere over a year back</pendantic>
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