#creative

prplcdclnw@diasp.eu

Melancholy Elephants

by Spider Robinson

This story is dedicated to Virginia Heinlein.

Thanks to Cory Doctorow for mentioning this. Here's the whole short story in 3 pieces. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.

http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants.html
http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants2.html
http://www.spiderrobinson.com/melancholyelephants3.html

The Wikipedia article on the story (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melancholy_Elephants) says

"Melancholy Elephants" is a science fiction short story by American-Canadian writer Spider Robinson, published in 1982.
The story examines the interaction of copyright and longevity, and the possible effects of the extension of copyright to perpetuity.
Its title is a reference to claims that elephants "never forget".

#copyright #freedom #content #media #stories #novels #art #music #robinson #spider-robinson #melancholy-elephants #creative-commons #copyright-trolls #liberty #creativity #originality #creative

lizzischmidt@pod.geraspora.de

immersed in the creative energy field

The rules of the game are simple - choose a photo (preferably your own), edit with gimp and tag #sundaygimp on a Sunday ;-) … and follow the tag.

#sundaygimp

(and also #Sunday-photo-edit )

Note: if you do not use gimp, but still want to play along, just use the tag #Sunday-photo-edit and edit the images with your favorite image editor

#AB, #AB-SG, #AB-11-21, #14-11-21, #photo, #Foto, #gimp, #Sundaygimp, #submergé #Champ-d-énergie #Créativité #immersed #creative #energy-field #Energie-Feld, #Krativität, #abgetaucht, #Kunst, #Art, #Bildbearbeitung, #Bildmanipulation, #manipulation-de-photos, #image-editing, #retouche-d-image, #myphoto, #mywork (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

mlansbury@despora.de

Germany's Creative Pedestrian Lights

Several German cities have unique traffic lights. Berlin's lights feature the iconic Ampelmännchen, Bonn's feature Beethoven, who was born in the former capital, and Trier's feature hometown philosopher Karl Marx.

The western town of Friedberg recently transformed some of its lights to feature Elvis Presley, who was stationed nearby as a US army soldier in the late 1950s.

https://www.dw.com/en/cologne-plans-gay-and-lesbian-traffic-lights-for-pride-festival/a-47488109

#Germany #art #creative #traffic #pedestrian #safety #roads #crosswalks #streets #ZebraCrossing #TrafficLights