http://www.constantvzw.com/index.php Latest posts from the weblogs related to the association Constant Constant Constant http://osvideo.constantvzw.org/?p=192 ( From blog.wired.com ) Google will have to turn over every record of every video watched by YouTube users, including users' names and IP addresses, to Viacom, which is suing Google for allowing clips of its copyright videos to appear on YouTube, a judge ruled Wednesday. Viacom wants the data to prove ... Copyrights and licensesNews Peter 1215168600 http://etraces.constantvzw.org/informations/spip.php?article239 read on the original website: USAinformationon line personal dataYouTubeGoogle TMweb monitoringYouTubeViacomdailytech.com nicolas maleve 1215099240 http://www.towards.be/site/spip.php?article274 From the archive of This American Life's radio, a wonderful broadcast described as: Five ways of mapping the world. One story about people who make maps the traditional way?by drawing things we can see. And other stories about people who map the world using smell, sound, touch, and taste. The world redrawn by the five senses. Especially moving is the interview of Denis Wood who creates maps of Boylan Heights, Raleigh, North Carolina, his neighborhood: a traditional street locator map; a map (...) - Blog / sensible, subjective, inspiration, U.S.A sensiblesubjectiveinspirationU.S.A Nicolas Malev? 1214993640 http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=544 For a while already, we wanted to experiment with the Scribus Scripter API in a printed job and a catalogue for the Piet Zwart Institute?s Media design graduation show formed the perfect excuse. Mute?s Simon Worthington connected us with Identic, a digital printer based in Brussels. They can print as many different files as [...] In the pipelinePrinting + PublishingPython OSP 1214830800 http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=547 At the Polish print party, we tried a possible automation of the nineteen steps. We gave out numbered tickets at the entrance, and at the end there was a numbered copy of the booklet for everyone. The booklets were all different via Python and Scribus. The imposition and printing was very simple Perl. If you just [...] Print PartyPythonScribus Ivan 1214748660 http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=545 Towards is a cartographic project close to OSP and the second publication is finally out and available after a long 9 months of preparation. Following our informations, it?s the last one that will be produced using proprietary software ;)? But the timeline present on the cover and backcover, made from all the posts written since [...] InkscapeOSP productionPrinting + PublishingSVG Pierre 1214396400 http://www.towards.be/site/spip.php?article272 [ EN ] The new towards publication is out. It contains : a history of the project including the numerous workshops and talks that happened the last two years. the schemes, ideas and plans for Tresor, a route accross free softwares for a subjective and collective cartography an overview of the maps collected in the framework of our nascent atlas of the subjective maps of Brussels Using the tools and ideas explained in the Tresor section of the publication, we produced the cover. The code (...) - Blog / Anouncements Anouncements Pierre Huyghebaert 1214395260 http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=542 Petit-Fays is a charming small village in the quiet remote pine covered mountains of the belgian Ardennes. Each year, there is the Ball of Petit-Fays village. During this week-end there are citizen diners, a big tent for feast and dance, an open air bar with cherry beer and barbecue, a nomadic friterie and a wild [...] (Old) news Harrisson 1214254560 http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=541             _          _            | | o      | |                  o    _   __  | |     ,  | |         _   ,_       _  _  _|_  |/ \_/  \_|/  |  / \_|/ \      |/ \_/  |  |  / |/ |  |  |__/ \__/ |__/|_/ \/ |   |_/   |__/    |_/|_/  |  |_/|_/ /|                             /| \|                             \|    _   __,   ,_  _|_  |/ \_/  |  /  |  |  |   |  |__/ \_/|_/   |_/|_/ \_/|/ /|                      /| \|                      \| vendredi le 27 juin 2008 OSP est très heureux de vous annoncer le lancement de sa première fonte en licence libre: la NotCourier-sans. Nous serions ravis de vous retrouver autour d?un live lay-out, des Jiaozi/Pierogi et de quelques surprises (polonaises) lors de cette Print Party qui aura lieu à: La Compilothèque vendredi le 27 juin 2008 à 20h00 50, Quai [...] (Old) newsPrint Party OSP 1213794600 http://osvideo.constantvzw.org/?p=190 Check out the (relatively) new blog: Open Movie Editor News by Open Video enthousiast and developer of the open source video-editor Open Movie Editor Richard Spindler. Open Movie Editor is a video-editing software for Linux which can be downloaded here Some nifty tips and articles on the blog; among others ... Editing softwareManualsNews Peter 1213785660 http://osvideo.constantvzw.org/?p=188 A new initiative on the Open Source Non Linear Editing video block: Lumiera started out as Cinelerra 3, a complete code rewrite of Cinelerra, but is now turning into an independent project. On the still very incomplete Lumiera.org website you can share your ideas on the GUI with the developers. As ... Editing softwareNews Peter 1213522140 http://osvideo.constantvzw.org/?p=187 Committed to sharing her music via the net, Kristin Hersh is throwing her muses at us in unconventional ways. In this small manifesto she writes: I think I need to engage in a grassroots kind of capitalism, choosing principles over profits, values over image, ideals over marketing. I have to ... Copyrights and licensesMedia archives Peter 1213519080 http://www.towards.be/site/spip.php?article270 A Global Sense of Place ? by Doreen Massey From Space, Place and Gender. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1994. Imagine for a moment that you are on a satellite, further out and beyond all actual satellites; you can see 'planet earth' from a distance and, unusually for someone with only peaceful intentions, you are equipped with the kind of technology which allows you to see the colours of people's eyes and the numbers on their number plates. You can see all the movement and turn (...) - Blog / id?-th?ies, inspiration id?-th?iesinspiration Nicolas Malev? 1213127940 http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=539 Dave Walden from the TeX User Group introduces his excellent TUG Interview Corner as follows: ?technology is created by and evolves with use by people, and the points of view and backgrounds of the people influence the technology? The ever growing list of interviewees include Barbara Beeton, Donald Knuth, Herman Zapf and numerous other less widely known [...] Reading list Femke 1213124640 http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/?p=536 Kanttekeningen bij een databank documents our investigation into the inner workings of the database of BAM, the Flemish institute for visual, audiovisual and media art. To visualise the data stored, we wrote a plugin in Inkscape, manually generated graphs and scripted .svg - you can read everything about what we found and how we worked [...] InkscapeOSP productionScripting OSP 1213020480