Dance on the grave of DRM with this awesome cartoon requiem video mashup challenge.
by T. Colin Dodd
Download this video: [Ogg Theora]
This is a prototype of a video designed to tell the story of DRM. The life and death, the rise and fall, the here today, gone-tomorrow story of DRM.
So we start with a heartbeat and a bird, and tell as much as we can. If you think there’s more to say, add to the story. We’ll be posting music tracks later, and if you need higher quality video, that can be arranged (email me for now tdoddATredhatDOTcom).
All of it - the cartoon, the music, the elements, the story, etc. is under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States license, the terms of which you can find here translated into a jillion languages, so have at it.
August 25th, 2007 at 8:45 am
compelling layout, beautiful line and color work.
very cool. duly forwarded to mashers.
August 25th, 2007 at 9:43 am
Lovely!
Nice imagination. Even the music of the silence is great!
August 25th, 2007 at 11:15 am
Amazing animation! Congrats to everyone who been involved!!
August 25th, 2007 at 11:33 am
wow - this is really great. i love the overall simplicity of it, in both the linework & color as well as the animation and message. looking forward to seeing future additions & projects. (could be cool to submit to channel frederator, too. i think they’d dig it.)
August 25th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Exquisitely drawn. Who was the art director?
August 25th, 2007 at 3:42 pm
v.cool
August 25th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
this is fucking gay
August 25th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Also look at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryXDhXqR-SE. It is called Interchangeability… it is from the guys at defectivebydesign.org, the Campaign to eliminate DRM.
August 25th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
You kidding? Without the lengthy description its impossible to tell what the clip is about!!
Get rid of that and it’d quite happily join the other millions of clips that nobody has any idea about on youtube.
August 25th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
Great work - love the music and the artistic animation.
This could be as much about copyright as it is DRM. We’re studying “fixation” in my copyrights course right now, and how the law has changed to adapt to changing fixation media. Your video illustrates this progression nicely, from written score, to player piano roll, to phonograph, tape, CD, and ultimately bits.
Keep up the good work!
August 25th, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Truly amazing. I’m going to pass this along to a friend and have him rhyme over it. If it’s any good, I’ll email it over to you.
Good work!
August 25th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
I think there’s too little time spent on the pain and suffering and chaining of creativity caused by DRM but otherwise it’s a cool video.
August 25th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
I would have preferred to see the dots congregate into and angry mob and storm an RIAA building beating up the fat dots inside. But hey, that little birdie is cute.
August 25th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
Love it. The music is very fun and the animation goes along perfectly. My only suggestion is to make the captured bird scene a little longer or add a little more there to help it sink in.
August 25th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
Very well done and a pretty good idea.
Thank you!
August 25th, 2007 at 8:44 pm
Simply gorgeous!
August 25th, 2007 at 11:47 pm
Uhh, I don’t get it… Am I dense or something?
August 26th, 2007 at 3:00 am
It’s nice… but too abstract to link it with DRM…
August 26th, 2007 at 4:39 am
That’s maybe a bit too abstract and you should have emphasized the capture of the bird. But the colours are gorgeous, the music is fun and the animation is pretty good too!
August 26th, 2007 at 5:03 am
that made no sense at all..
August 26th, 2007 at 5:48 am
Very very lovely, cute animation and music, but also agree it’s a little abstract without the title to help us
August 26th, 2007 at 5:54 am
awesome, it is the only word i though when i was watching the animation.
August 26th, 2007 at 7:02 am
this doesnt make a clear message. even on an abstract level it appears to have more to do with the very general effect of copyright in society than it does with DRM, at all.
August 26th, 2007 at 8:24 am
DRM is so passe anyway. Hello anyone, when Jobs is using “anti-DRM” as a brand marketing tool, the best Cory Doctorow or Red-hat response is just a great binary response reinforcement.
Let’s be a little more creative and focus on the powerful forms of control, built into MacBooks, iPhones, inter-operabiility and trusted computing.
Enough self-aggrandizing creative projects.
August 26th, 2007 at 8:31 am
Die Geschichte von DRM
Sevenload Direktvogel
Die Geschichte von DRM in für Kritiker ungewohnt abstrakter Form und als liebevoll gestalteter Animationsfilm gibt es bei Truth Happens. Noch nicht die finale Version, aber schon jetzt sehr schön und besonders ausdrucks…
August 26th, 2007 at 9:33 am
Very artsy and professional-looking, but it doesn’t convey anything. It’s just a short bombardment of semi-related symbols; there isn’t any kind of story or meaning to be pulled from the piece as it is now.
August 26th, 2007 at 9:53 am
This is a wonderful start! The music is great at the beginning, but takes a turn for the worse just after the “chandelier” scene. (The piano is fine, but the “scratching” doesn’t really match.)
I love how the video is completely free of language, so this message can spread cross-culturally.
The idea of the tune spreading virally is great. It’s a concept that is very familiar, and it demonstrates how powerful a good idea can be.
August 26th, 2007 at 10:31 am
Lewis, I think you’re thinking Microsoft there. Anything else?
August 26th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Maybe I was seeing something different to BHSPitMonkey or maybe I know the story
but this is a great little movie!
August 26th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Great idea and great execution. I love the heartbeat motif at the end - have you thought about emphasising it using the horizontal line as a heartmonitor for a couple of beats?
August 27th, 2007 at 7:47 am
Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.
August 27th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
awww…That was very nice. you probubly don’t want me to sya this but it wwas cute too. very nice todd
August 28th, 2007 at 12:37 am
The bird is v cute but it’s kind of a Partridge Family rip-off, and when I think Partridge Family, I think “Come On Get Happy”, and that’s not something I associate with DRM.
I am not an animator myself, but how about some Fat Cats to chase our bird every so often? Or maybe he needs to grow bigger than his cage, bust out, find a sax, and become The Bird??? (Yo, that’s Charlie Parker kids!)
August 28th, 2007 at 6:24 am
this was sh$#@%t- what the f#%&@#ck has this got to do with drm?!?1
[Editors note: I changed the dirty words so that they could be printable. :-} ]
August 28th, 2007 at 9:22 am
I love how the second something makes it to digg everyone has to come and give their 2 cents no matter if that 2 cents is more like -2 cents. At least it isn’t as bad as youtube.
August 28th, 2007 at 9:27 am
That was supposed to link to http://xkcd.com/202/.
Anyway, the meaning should be obvious if you just try to interpret it, even without a title. I don’t think it should be any less abstract. A message to the rest of the people who show up here: think before you post.
August 28th, 2007 at 10:55 am
Great job to everyone that contributed.
To those that think it is too abstract or lacks meaning, I would argue that this a visual poem about music and how DRM restricts it. This clearly isn’t supposed to be an educational video about what DRM is and what it means to us as consumers. Go elsewhere for that info.
September 1st, 2007 at 6:17 pm
This calls to mind the Chief Joseph quote about how the earth does not belong to us but how we belong to the earth.We belong to the music.
September 8th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Non incatenate la creatività : “Danza sulla tomba del DRM”
Ripropongo un interessante video creato dal blogger T. Colin Dodd di Red Hat Magazine.
September 22nd, 2007 at 6:44 am
The video is meaningless, I would never have guessed it’s supposed to be about DRM.