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PROTECT-IP is a bill that has been introduced in the Senate and the House and is moving quickly through Congress. It gives the government and corporations the ability to censor the net, in the name of protecting “creativity”. The law would let the government or corporations censor entire sites– they just have to convince a judge that the site is “dedicated to copyright infringement.”

The government has already wrongly shut down sites without any recourse to the site owner. Under this bill, sharing a video with anything copyrighted in it, or what sites like Youtube and Twitter do, would be considered illegal behavior according to this bill.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, this bill would cost us $47 million tax dollars a year — that’s for a fix that won’t work, disrupts the internet, stifles innovation, shuts out diverse voices, and censors the internet. This bill is bad for creativity and does not protect your rights.

Link naar het project: cubeproject.org.uk

Link naar de site: wemissyou.de

As part of our School’s work on behaviour change in a number of different domains, such as smoking cessation and healthy eating, Dr Page has been looking at factors which affect behaviour change in relation to the environment. If we are to mitigate the problems of climate change, we are going to need to deal with problems that are as much psychological problems as they are technological problems. The Cube Project is an attempt to show that many of the technologies that we need are already commonly available and at an affordable price. The question is, why aren’t we using them? This is a psychological question.

Link naar het project: cubeproject.org.uk

drench Cubehead: A man with a seriously mixed up head uses drench to sort out his Cubehead, and get himself back together. Cubehead, to find out more visit – http://www.staydrenched.com

American artist Janet Echelman reshapes urban airspace with monumental, fluidly moving sculpture that responds to environmental forces including wind, water, and sunlight. Full bio and more links

Janet Echelman found her true voice as an artist when her paints went missing — which forced her to look to an unorthodox new art material. Now she makes billowing, flowing, building-sized sculpture with a surprisingly geeky edge. A transporting 10 minutes of pure creativity.

‘I’m very jealous of young designers starting out now – on the one hand,’ explains the graphic designer Wim Crouwel. ‘On the other hand, it’s becoming more difficult to find your own way.’

In this video, Wim Crouwel offers advice to young designers and creatives.

Wim Crouwel was an acquaintance of the Dutch architect and designer Gerrit Rietveld, and has designed the book dedicated to Rietveld’s work: ‘Gerrit Rietveld’, which is available to order from www.phaidon.com

The Holstee Tee. Made of 100% Recycled material the shirt featured a unique holster positioned pocket – rethinking the classic t-shirt with focuses on fit, style, sustainability, and functionality.
Over the course of the first year of business the team designed and produced half a dozen new products including The Recycled Wallet, made of newspapers and plastic bags collected off the streets of India; The People Pendant, made of recycled acrylic scraps from a Chicago-area sign maker, and their Upcycled line of t-shirts which highlight the lasting value of apparel.

Link naar de site: shop.holstee.com