MetaFilter posts tagged with copy

Web design inspiration

signal — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:42:15 -0800

Pattern Tap: an organized collection of web design ideas. You can also make your own 'user sets', suscribe to other's sets, and other 2.0ey things.

Proud of their "New" Logo?

juiceCake — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:49:29 -0800

Quark gets a new face. Problem is, it looks just like the face of the Scottish Arts Council. Via MacCentral.

"Stand Up" for your DRM

MrZero — Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:35:17 -0800

Can you hear the future? Sunncomm can, and it's called copy protection. Sunncomm's Mediamax DRM, which blocks the purchaser from copying any files from the CD, is included on the latest Dave Matthews Band CD, Stand Up (as well as CDs from some other artists). The good news? It includes pre-ripped versions of the songs. The bad news? They're .WMA files. Apparently, Dave Matthews Band decided to help out all those iPod lovers who were getting hosed (perhaps in response to this) by posting instructions on how to bypass Sunncomm's copy protection. Of course, the last time somebody did that, he nearly got sued into oblivion. DMB's probably OK, however, because it seems that business is booming. Of course, that may not last long. [via] and [via]

Copy Shop: short film with unorthodox photocopy technique

planetkyoto — Mon, 21 Mar 2005 21:36:38 -0800

Copy Shop is a 12-minute dialogue-free film by director Virgil Widrich about a guy inadvertently duplicating himself over and over (320 x 240 streaming Real format download link). The most interesting aspect of the short, however, is that it was made frame-by-frame of photocopies, manipulated for jarring visual effects and then shot with a camera to put together the final cut. (Mentioned previously by film aficionado pxe2000.) Also see Widrich's photocopied short Fast Film with even more calamitous, unraveling effects. Get this guy toner refills for his birthday.

Bootleg Objects

aeiou — Tue, 10 Aug 2004 10:13:40 -0800

Bootleg Objects, the site of two artists in Germany, have done some really amazing work retrofitting popular technology to serve a new and/or unintended purpose -- just because they can. It's quite beautiful design -- who knows of other examples?

FBI Discovers Bill of Rights

flagrante_delicto — Wed, 19 Mar 2003 16:39:28 -0800

FBI Discovers Bill of Rights after 138 years. No word on whether they will sell it or use it.

grumblebee — Thu, 29 Jun 2000 06:57:09 -0800

The opening bid for the Declaration of Independence, which went on sale at sothebys.com at 9am this morning, was $4,000,000. I can't comment too much, because I work for the Sotheby's, but when the sale closes at 5pm today, it may be the most valuable object ever sold online. We're all going to stand in a big room from 4-5 today and watch the bids come in.