“Our legendary personalities are evergreen ‘brands’ with the benefit of worldwide recognition,” reads a message on the Richman agency’s website. Guardian UK Article *vomits* Where is the line drawn between “public figure” and “celebrity”? How can a dead person have an agent, particulary where there are no specific works concerned other than a sense of character? It’s one thing to insist that Duck Soup is a work that should be protected (which any more simply means controlled by whomever has the most buX0rs), but shouldn’t personalities and such pass into the public domain as well? ( boingboing : Bill Gates 0wns Einstein, Groucho , Freud, Asimov, Fuller, et al )
Wow, that is awesome. Makes me want to try to learn how to solder again, so I can trick out my bike for the playa. Or just freaking out the neighbors...
ReplyDeleteWhoo! Are you a burner? I had no idea!
ReplyDeleteI want to make one of these for around town; I would be the coolest gaijin around.
Woo-hoo! Velocipede Mashup!
ReplyDeleteno seriously, it's cool. I love how PacMan is the entire wheel. That they can even get the ghost is abso-f*****g-lutely amazing.
Yessir I am; if you go back in the archives to late summer 2003 I go on at excruciating length about making playa gifts out of bottlecaps. I didn't go last year, for which I am still kicking myself; I am so going this year!
ReplyDeleteHave you been?
For me, EVERY day is BURNING MAN. Especially if I actually stand in sunshine. DAMN, I am pale.
ReplyDeleteNo, I have never been, and to listen to most burners, the last good year is always the one that was three years ago (no matter the current year, and congruity be damned). It looks like something I will do when I am back in the US, the kids have been to college, and I can cast off some responsiblities for a while. Look for me in 15 years or so; I'll be the fat, nekkid, sunburned bald guy who is so dehydrated that his pee looks like Bass Ale.
Michael; yeah, the ghost is hella impressive. I wonder if someone would sell kits for this...
ReplyDeleteYes, I know there is a kit, I mean like a "done kit." MAKE is for people with spare time.