Author: vanevery

Find your fortune!

Drop Spots
Nice.. Retrieve and leave gifts!

From the site:
Just near the Oriental Pavillion in Prospect Park (looks like a bandstand) , there’s a statue of Beethoven. Stand underneath Ludwig and look in the same direction he is. Look at the concrete border to the flowerbed in front of you. There’s a broken piece of concrete. Walk over to it, pull it out… that’s the spot!

Open media statement of principles

Open media statement of principles We believe in the creative power of the individual. We all
have meaningful stories to tell. Individual lives and opinions are
interesting, important and worth sharing.
Media is not just something done to us by big media and
the entertainment companies. People are hungry for authentic voices and
the immediacy and intimacy of personal media. We want to encourage the
public to take up the tools of personal publishing.

We support open media, open standards and interoperability.
It’s not about walled gardens. The Web is about openness, connectedness
and participation.
We support open source. In addition, we support any project or
company that supports the Commons, community and the public interest.

Quality matters. We support efforts that encourage and teach
people how to create high-value grassroots media that offers meaning
and context.

The public benefits from long-term archives that preserve grassroots media for future generations.

We support remix culture. We believe in the idea of giving
people access to video, audio, music and images for them to mash up and
remix in a way that’s easy, convenient and legal.
We believe in fair use and sensible copyright laws. Creative
Commons and the GNU Public License enrich the culture while preserving
creators’ rights.
We support the right of long-tail artists, like all artists,
to profit from their creations. We do not support unfettered file
sharing of others’ works without their permission.

Film subtitling and translation by the community

dotSUB.com

Looks to be a great resource for getting a film subtitled and translated..

dotSUB is a resource and gathering place for subtitling films
from one language into many languages using our unique subtitling tools.
These tools expand the power and reach of films by making it possible for
people to view and enjoy films in their native languages.

dotSUB provides free browser based tools that allow anyone to
translate films from one language into countless other languages.

dotSUB locates and obtains appropriate permissions from
filmmakers and rights-holders around the world who seek a wider audience for
their work.

At dotSUB, filmmakers, distributors, professional and volunteer
translators work together in a variety of ways to create a great wealth of
multi-lingual moving image content, leveraging the potential of film to
communicate, educate and entertain.