My guest blogger post is up at The Comics Journal group blog, The Hooded Utilitarian. The entry is part of a roundtable discussion on issues surrounding copyright and free culture. The centerpiece of the week was an interview with animator, filmmaker, and free culture activist Nina Paley. I refer to Paley’s work and the interview [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2010
Comics and Copyright
12-Mar-10news 3/12/10
12-Mar-10In 2008, the Japan Wind Ensemble Conductors Conference commissioned and premiered Climbing Parnassus in Kurashiki. I’ll be returning to Japan next year for a new JWECC commission for a work for chorus and ensemble.
Steal this notebook
08-Mar-10This week I’ll be a guest blogger on The Hooded Utilitarian, a blog on The Comics Journal written by old family friend and comics/culture critic Noah Berlatsky. The topic this week is free-culture, and even though Noah is calling this a “roundtable”, I’m seeing the table as virtually square, with me set up to sit [...]
Reason
15-Mar-10Composer Alex Shapiro is a class act. Grab a drink, take a deep breath, and read to the bottom.