The Open Content Project Day 2
Day two of the Open Content project and I am again amazed. The wealth of content being produced under permissive licensing is just amazing.
Video
Content: Pioneer One
Genre: Sci-fi/Drama
Download: http://vodo.net/pioneerone
Licence: Creative Commons (Unknown, have emailed the creators, will update when I can)
Short review: Absolutely freaking fantastic. No other words to describe it. This episode was AMAZING production quality wise. I loved the storyline, the camera work was excellent apart from a little shakiness at the start and the acting was excellent too. This project is significant for a few reasons though. First off, it’s only officially been released on Bittorrent, and the money to film it was crowd sourced. This show here is a view of the future of internet television and I suggest you watch it.
Rating: 9/10
The good: Amazingly good on a shoestring budget, excellent storyline, top notch production
The bad: A little shaky camera work at the start
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Next I wanted to see what was available in the realms of self learning. That’s when I discovered this:
Content: http://www.youtube.com/user/StanfordUniversity (Self education, lectures from Stanford University)
Watch: http://www.youtube.com/user/StanfordUniversity
LICENCE: Creative Commons (Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works).
Short review: I absolutely love the concept. Hundreds of educational videos that you’d have to pay to see otherwise. I was actually very surprised when I found this. I thought Unis would be protective of their lectures rather than giving them out for free. Excellent resource.
Rating: 11/10!
The good: Excellent learning tool, I am sure as hell going to be using this in the future.
The bad: Nothing! Absolutely nothing.
Music
Spinning Into Control by I Am This
Album: Spinning into control – I Am This.
Genre: drumnbass breakbeat experimental dj acoustechno electronic idm
Licence:
You can copy, distribute, advertise and play this album as long as you:
Give credit to the artist
Download: http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/6207
Short review: Wow. This album was very, very different. Different in a good refreshing kind of way though. I really enjoyed this album, one of the better iDnB albums i’ve listened to. I enjoyed all the tracks apart from re-break. Re-break was just not that great a track IMHO. Every other track was refreshingly different using instruments such as a guitar and cutting and splicing it to produce a unique sound.
Rating: 7/10
The good: Very unique, but still sounding excellent
The bad: The track ‘Re-break’ was painful to listen to.
