Greg Cohn's Weblog » art http://gregcohn.com/blog An Echo Park Yahoo's place for thoughts on life and the web Mon, 26 Apr 2010 23:44:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 SixWordSciFi is launched at BarCampLA 2 http://gregcohn.com/blog/blogging/2006/11/sixwordscifi-is-launched-at-barcampla-2/ http://gregcohn.com/blog/blogging/2006/11/sixwordscifi-is-launched-at-barcampla-2/#comments Mon, 13 Nov 2006 05:07:31 +0000 greg http://gregcohn.com/blog/blogging/2006/11/sixwordscifi-is-launched-at-barcampla-2/ I’m here at BarCampLA2, where I’ve just launched my contribution, SixWordSciFi. It was inspired by a Wired magazine article that I think was a neat idea, but executed in a very 1.0 way. 30+ well-known writers were given the assignment to do futuristic six-word stories in the vein of Hemingway’s famous “For Sale: baby shoes, never worn”, including BarCampLA participant Cory Doctorow.
Unfortunately, I can’t reprint any of the Wired contributions here, due to Conde Nast’s restrictive copyright policies, and I think it’s too bad that there’s no way to comment on the stories (or even the article as a whole), subscribe to new entries, or contribute as a reader.

So I’ve open-sourced it onto a WordPress blog. Anyone can comment or vote on the submitted entries, and I’m going to leave it open for anyone to register and post unless it becomes a problem. All submissions are published under a Creative Commons license, so you can reblog them – or create a sci-fi fortune cookie company if you like.

I’m betting we can collectively outdo the success of a very established Conde Nast publication. Please enjoy your power responsibly ;-)

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There are a lot of artists out there who try to be funny and “street”, and plenty of angry youngs artists trying to do remix, but Banksy just nails the right balance of intellectual wit without pretension, authentic ire at authoritative regimes, actual artistic capabilities, and pop-culture sensibility. Plus he’s freakin’ hilarious. Hope you were able to catch it, but if not, there are tons of photos on Flickr.

banksy line

photos by Notrivers and Beopenguin via CC

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