What is Copyright?

Copyright is a legal right in protecting one’s property or work. According to Lessig’s Ted Talk– Laws that chokes Creativity, Lessing talks about “people taking and recreating using other people’s content with the use of digital technologies”.  He explains that “every single use requires permission and without permission, you are trespasser”, in other you are committing an unlawful act. The purpose of this TED Talk was to discuss how copyright is affected and changing over time.

Lessig says that  “never before has creativity of the millions has been effectively displaced, and displaced because of these quote, “infernal machines.”

The “infernal machines” are described as  technology, Lessig refers that that long ago people used creativity on their own , they were able to do it themselves. But nowadays, creativity is replaced with technology, thus society rely on it, choosing the easy route.

This is my first time hearing about vaporwaves. According to the Wikipedia, “vaporwave is a microgenre of electronic music, a visual art style, and an Internet meme that emerged in the early 2010s”.

I guess I was a little young  when vapor waves became a thing. Now that I learned about vaporwaves they are actually cool and creative.

This is an example of how a vaporwave looks like

I created this

from this

I used this tool that triangulates images, the experience was a bit challenging because it’s my first time using these types of creative tools.

Today I visited Aishah’s website. To describe it, her website is very modern and simple. It is based on Middle Eastern culture.

My parents are both from the Middle East, to specify, they are from Yemen.

Aishah posted this recipe on her blog. This is every Arab’s favorite dish.

I enjoyed looking through Aishah’s website, the website layout correlates with the idea of middle eastern culture.

Check out her website.

So far this class has been the best out of all the other classes I am taking.

In this class, I learned new materials and techniques such as adding hyperlinks, making my own gif, creating my website and so much more. I believe this is the only class I enjoyed and had fun with.

I like the fact that I learn something new every week. I am not a fan of repetitive teaching, I get really bored.

I can’t wait to learn more !!!

I have never heard about Aaron Swartz before watching this documentary. According to the American Library Association, Swartz was “an advocate for public participation in government and unrestricted access to peer-reviewed scholarly articles”.

He founded several software companies like watchdog.net and Infogami which was later merged to Reddit.com

Aaron Swartz once said, “With enough of us around the world, we will not just send a story message opposing the privatization of knowledge- we will make it a thing of the past.

Based on this quote, Aaron Swartz wanted to private knowledge resources-such as articles public to the people. He took the situation and did things that were unlawful. Swartz wanted everyone to have free access to them. I do understand his point, he was fighting for freedom and fairness.

I am really excited, this is where the website making process begins.

But before creating a website, I need a domain name. The domain name is based on what I love to do which is baking.

I made a list so far:

luscioussweets&confections

freshlybaked

tastytreats

mylittlebakeryshop

sweet&savor

la patisserie

One of my favorite websites that is all about baking and techniques is Sugar & Sparrow

She is also on You Tube and on other social media.

Memes are 100% art.

The word meme was initially created by Biologist, Richard Dawkins. He defined the word meme as ‘to imitate’.

In 1993, Mike Godwin brought up the idea of internet memes.

The first meme I saw a meme looked like this:

Troll face memes were very popular about 10 years ago, I think they still are.

Anyways, I believe that memes are an expression of art, they can be used to self express one’s thought. Others believe that memes are not art, they see art as paintings, drawings, etc.