Remember Mad Magazine? Liar - you do too!
My favorite part of the mag is always the movie satires, because they tell the whole thing nicely, with all the important parts intact, and just a bit of funny stuff around the edges. That way, you don't have to spend the eight bucks (expensive) to go see it, but you can still yap about it with your buds.
Well, I was reading Brent Rasmussen's blog and'e pointed to this 15 minute version of Van Helsing by Cleolinda Jones. I wasn't planning on seeing it anyway, but now I can pretend I did.
Richard Tallent has come up with a possible solution to the problem of digital image impermanance, a P2P system where your images would exist in the aether, for perpetuity. This sounds great, my own system is wrought with insecurities - I back up to a hard drive, a second hard drive and a DVD (formerly a CD). These are my original files - I keep 2 or three copies of each one, locally. If my house were to get swept away in a cyclone or something, they'd all be gone (but so would all my negatives, and I've only got one each of those.)
But a P2P system would make them available to me any where, at any time in the future. I can, however see some problems with that scheme though. Digital photos are much larger than songs, and most photographers are picky about using high levels of compression - we think it ruins the picture. Since my storage media is getting fuller by the snapshot (I've got 280 GB of hard disk space and about twice that currently in DVDs and CDs) I don't really want to devote a bunch to storing other peoples stuff.
Secondly, and we share this concern with musicians, how do we protect our IP rights? I mean, if a great photo is sitting on my disk, but I didn't take it, what (besides my great sense of honor) is keeping me from selling it off as my own? Your little copyright notice? Ha! I've got Photoshop and I know how to use it.
Hopefully these problems can be surmounted, but for now, it's more hard drive and more DVDs.
