May 2010
3 posts
Fair Use.
A couple of days ago I posted a blog. In that blog I included a photo. It was not my photo, and it was not altered by myself or the original photographer. After it was altered it was used in an obituary for a local Vancouver musician, and both the obituary, and the photograph created some controversy. I reposted both in that first blog. That photo has since been taken down, after Fiona Garden...
An Anonymous Post About Anonymity
Earlier today I wrote a blog. The subject matter centred on a dispute surrounding a deceased drummer. I felt it important to get online and voice my opinion on this subject matter, not because of my feelings for the drummer, not for my feelings for the writer of the original disputed article. I needed to voice my opinion over the issues that arose from the dispute. These issues included, fair...
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Dead Drummers - A controversy, a photo, a blog.
Lets go to where this all began. Local Vancouver blogger “Hipster Designer” recently posted a eulogy on his blog for Vancouver Indie Drummer, Devon Clifford. Mr. Clifford essentially died on stage of a brain hemorrhage, but he died doing something he loved. However the Hipster Designers comments on the event may have seemed to some to be a little insensitive.
It’s safe to...