"Does the technological phenomenon of the internet aid or hinder the goals set out in your manifesto? How do you see the big players in the internet world? From my understanding, the creators of Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle developed their list to enable people to announce themselves to each other in their own terms. I think there has been broad interest in such self-generating and self-organizing networks--ones in which there is no real intermediary to give the overall network a structure, no referee, no repackaging for a fee. And that was the idea behind YAHOO, as I have heard it. What do you think of Google? One person says it is like Wal-Mart. The direction of their library project is interesting to me: see the Google blog as linked from this article. It seems to me that some of the big players on the internet want it to become a space where people have broad access to search and scavenge for sources--and not just finished products--for free. Hard to say how much progress they are making."

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http://fsvkxdjo.com/qfvk/jkja.html | http://guelasxn.com/jquo/bpfb.html8/29/2005 11:00:00 AM|W|P|Mr. Romance|W|P|Streetsy is a new photoblog focusing on graffiti and street art. Good materials here, both for recombinance and plain old inspiration. The site includes a section on public domain nature of street art.|W|P|112532789573406033|W|P|Guerrilla Art|W|P|romance@recombinanthumandragon.com8/26/2005 12:15:00 PM|W|P|Mr. Romance|W|P|Dear Reading Public, In order to get the ball rolling with our campaign for participatory culture, maybe you can help us out with a little collage project for our multimedia labyrinth. The start point of the collage can be this picture: What we need is for you to send in another photo or photos (or maybe text) that you think would go well with this image. We'll put the collage together and post it.|W|P|112507544833405755|W|P|RHD Public Collaboration #1|W|P|romance@recombinanthumandragon.com8/22/2005 01:16:00 PM|W|P|Mr. Romance|W|P|For the last few months, we have been overseeing the germination of this web site, using an intricate system of lights and monitors. Now, as the first green shoots begin to poke out above the soil, the public life of Recombinant Human Dragon begins. This site is intended, in part, to act as a virtual home for the audio works of the Earl of Bandwidth and Beastmaster Romance. But it is also the display case for our multimedia chopshop, a nest for net rats, a forum for DIY plagiarism, a hypertext hedge-maze, and a pulpit for the public preachers of the Recombinant. Above all, we want this to be a collaborative effort. In the interest of undermining out own author-ity with all possible speed, we are in need of donations - not money, but text, images, and sounds. Only together can we hope to create a tiny juggernaut with the power to break down into several robot cats and challenge accepted notions of cultural ownership. We ask for your help.|W|P|112473967750909363|W|P|Welcome to RHD|W|P|romance@recombinanthumandragon.com8/24/2005 10:19:15 AM|W|P|Anonymous|W|P|What ownership?8/24/2005 10:36:19 AM|W|P|Anonymous|W|P|The one that daily fills shiploads of owners.8/24/2005 10:44:10 AM|W|P|Mr. Romance|W|P|This post has been removed by the author.8/24/2005 10:45:23 AM|W|P|Mr. Bandwidth|W|P|In other words: one if by land, two if by sea.8/24/2005 10:47:34 AM|W|P|Mr. Romance|W|P|The cheapest way of shipping goods by sea is to have them carried on deck. However, such goods are then exposed to the weather with no liability of the shipping company for such damage. Also, of course, such goods would be the first to be thrown overboard (or "jettisoned") should the ship run into trouble and need to be lightened. Because of the above factors, marine insurance rates for such goods are higher than for goods stowed below deck

See also the Plagiarism and Culture Theft Section of the RHD manifesto.8/18/2005 04:33:00 PM|W|P|Mr. Romance|W|P|A quip from Banksy that I thought was worth sharing:

The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that means something. You don't go to a restaurant and order a meal because you want to have a shit.

In the age of the recombinant, Paris Hilton, Simon Cowell, and Joan Rivers must be stripped for useable parts, then left to rust on blocks in the backyard.|W|P|112439780498829034|W|P|Food For Thought|W|P|romance@recombinanthumandragon.com8/18/2005 01:37:00 PM|W|P|Mr. Romance|W|P|Please direct your attention to the following brief video about the relationship between independent artists, the culture industry, and piracy. A clear illustration of some of the points we have tried to make in our manifesto. Steal This Disc And on the opposite side of the spectrum, as far as personal involvment in media commerce goes, you have the coBRANDiT, an advertising contest run by OBTTV. This campaign encourages you to submit your own "documentary advertisement" for a product of your choice. Of particular interest is the brief blurb about branding and ownership:

coBRANDiT asks: Who owns the brand? The answer is "consumers." People. People who know that participation, lived experience, and word-of-mouth are more important than commercial dictation when it comes to identifying with brands. New media is here and old marketing models are dead! And while advertising isn't going away, more and more it will be made by and with consumers...people like you.

What this says, in essence, is that in the "new media" age, it is We the People, and not those slick Madison Avenue types who have the power to decide how companies should best convince us to hand over our money. These days, WE make the advertising, WE develop the brand. But what benefit do WE get, aside from $50 from OBTTV? It's the same old companies getting the profits. OBTTV uses lingo like "open-souce" and "lived experience". They give the impression that we are talking about a revolutionary cultural struggle between public empowerment and the slick aesthetic. They attempt to blur the line between culture production and consumerism. In reality, the company still owns the brand and OBTTV is simply attempting to position themselves (for profit) as the middle-man between media-saavy youngsters and corporations hoping to find an advertising edge (for profit). There is nothing for the public to gain here. The true engine of recombinance recognizes coBRANDTiT as opportunist profiteering off of the DIY aesthetic and disposes of OBTTV accordingly.|W|P|112438681362406840|W|P|Media Commerce and the Individual Producer/Consumer|W|P|romance@recombinanthumandragon.com8/04/2005 10:48:00 AM|W|P|Mr. Bandwidth|W|P| Here we go again! On the top you see a tapestry by Hollos of the Bauhaus; on the bottom, an image of recombinant human DNA. Funny how these things work out.|W|P|112316714839072738|W|P|juxta position things more clearly...|W|P|bandwidth@recombinanthumandragon.com8/01/2005 09:20:00 AM|W|P|Mr. Romance|W|P|Fans of the recombinant might be interested to read up a bit on the phenomenon of Copyleft. A designation which could be described as the opposite of Copyright, an artist or author can apply Copyleft to a piece of work when he or she wants it to be distributed, reformulated, and improved upon as widely as possible. The institution of Copyleft not only encourages collaboration and distribution of information and culture resources, it also incorporates and attractive element of parody and pun on the capitalist legalese of Copyright law and "Intellectual Property" (i.e. "Copyleft - all rights reversed.")|W|P|112290746339608659|W|P|Community and Copyleft|W|P|romance@recombinanthumandragon.com