{"id":1286,"date":"2006-05-21T21:47:49","date_gmt":"2006-05-22T02:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1286"},"modified":"2006-05-22T10:12:04","modified_gmt":"2006-05-22T15:12:04","slug":"3-films-alternative-freedom-elephants-dream-and","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/3-films-alternative-freedom-elephants-dream-and\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Films: Alternative Freedom, Elephants Dream and  An Inconvenient Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David McConville alerts us to two movies. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alternativefreedom.org\/\">&#8220;Alternative Freedom&#8221;<\/a> takes the Free Culture movement and documents it under a Creative Commons license (at least for their web site) and includes i<a href=\"http:\/\/alternativefreedom.org\/?page_id=2\">nterviews with Larry Lessig, Richard Stallman, Danger Mouse and others.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.elephantsdream.org\/\">&#8220;Elephant Dreams&#8221;<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/articles\/06\/05\/19\/1533208.shtml\">web site has been SlashDotted<\/a>, but then Slashdot describes the movie and it&#8217;s creation as the first &#8220;Open Movie&#8221; this way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The 3D animated short &#8216;Elephants Dream&#8217; will today be released as a free and public download. This is the final stage of a successfully completed Open Movie project which has been community-financed, using only Open Source tools, and opening up the movie itself as well as the entire studio database for everyone to re-use and learn from.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikinews.org\/wiki\/Interview_with_Ton_Roosendaal_about_Elephants_Dream_and_free_content_movies\">Wikinews has an interview with Ton Roosendaal<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0346550\/\">Davis Guggenheim<\/a>, whose films <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0300545\/\">&#8220;Teach&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0295260\/\">&#8220;First Year&#8221;<\/a> got our attention earlier on, is hitting it big with the Al Gore driven flick, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatecrisis.net\/\">&#8220;An Inconvenient Truth,&#8221;<\/a> about global climate crisis and Gore&#8217;s passion to set things straight in the world. The site has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatecrisis.net\/findatheater\/\">a great theatre finder<\/a> and the film is in wide release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David McConville alerts us to two movies. &#8220;Alternative Freedom&#8221; takes the Free Culture movement and documents it under a Creative Commons license (at least for their web site) and includes interviews with Larry Lessig, Richard Stallman, Danger Mouse and others. &#8220;Elephant Dreams&#8221; web site has been SlashDotted, but then Slashdot describes the movie and it&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}