Posts from ‘February, 2009’

[Updated 032009] NPR has withdrawn the image linked here in the original post. The caption for it read: A poster of President Barack Obama, right, by artist Shepard Fairey is shown for comparison with this April 27, 2006, file photo of Obama by Associated Press photographer Mannie Garcia. Fairey has acknowledged the poster is based [...]

Shepard Fairey’s portrait of Obama was installed at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington on Jan. 17, 2009. [Photo by Jewel Samad/AFP/Getty Images/NPR]
Shepard Fairey: Inspiration Or Infringement? : NPR 022609:
The Associated Press has threatened to sue the artist who created the iconic “Hope” poster of Barack Obama for copyright infringement, but Shepard Fairey says his [...]

Shepard Fairey says he used this photo by Mannie Garcia, taken April 27, 2006 at the National Press Club, for the Obama ‘Hope’ poster. Fairey cropping out actor George Clooney and changing the tilt of Obama’s head. [Photo by Mannie Garcia/AP/NPR]
Mannie Garcia: The Photo That Sparked ‘Hope’NPR 922609:
In April 2006, Associated Press photographer Mannie Garcia [...]

Librarian Opposes Google’s Library Fees NPR 022109:
Google wants to give you access to its huge database of scanned, out-of-print books, but the company is going to charge for it. Robert Darnton, head librarian at Harvard University, says the deal violates a basic American principle — that knowledge should be free and accessible to all.
Robert Darnton’s [...]

While reading W. Terrence Gordon’s biography of Marshall McLuhan, I came across a McLuhan pronouncement so absurd that I need to figure out how to fit it into my MiT6 presentation:
In North America … TV has not been the friend of literacy except to encourage depth involvement in language as a complex structure. In other [...]