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[thefluffyslipper]

A Music: Square Sky

So I’ve been trying to get into music composition lately, and I finally finished an actual piece! I’m so excited, I hope you guys like it. Sorry it isn’t Undertale stuff. (It seems the music player doesn't show up on dashboard ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ )

Here's the link to the piece in case the player isn't working: https://soundcloud.com/thefluffyslipper/square-skydisquiet0271

Here’s a little background for the piece:

I’m participating in something called the Disquiet Junto, a group which sends out an assignment each week with some prompt for a music piece. This week’s prompt was about a real man in Syria named Bassel Khartabil who’s been imprisoned since March, 2012, and it’s been more than a year since anyone’s heard from him. He didn’t do anything wrong, he’s just an open-source software engineer, but he’s been tortured and put in solitary confinement during his detention.

From the Disquiet project page:

On January 31, 2014, Bassel wrote to his friend Jon Phillips from the Damascus Central Jail in response to Phillips’ suggestion that people might make a record album inspired by his ongoing incarceration. Bassel replied in part:

The Noura mentioned in the letter is Bassel’s wife. See the full letter and information about actions to mark the fifth anniversary at:

http://freebassel.org/campaign/events/freebasselday/2017/03/09/freebassel5years/

Isn’t it sad? Anyway, the assignment said to “take that section of a ‘square sky’ to heart, about being able ‘to see the blue sky for six hours each day,’ and create a short piece of music in response to that image, that scenario, that mix of hope amid hopelessness.”

So that’s what I did. I also made this quick art to go with it:

P.S. can you tell I’m on Spring Break?

[peteippel]

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[an-ephemeral-blog]

Bassel Khartabil

Earlier this month I participated in a book sprint to raise awareness of the imprisonment of Bassel Khartabil by the Syrian government.  Now, it is rumored he has been sentenced to death.

You can read the book here but please, first:

1) sign this petition

2) retweet this tweet

3) email these Syrian embassies

4) add your name to this letter of support

[theopillault]

The Cost of Freedom is a book that was written in Pourrières, France from November 2nd to 6th. This book is not a statement about freedom and culture — it is a primal scream — the sum of our questions and desires. It is the raw expression of our lives. It talks about what is ultimately made through the dream of free culture: us.

It has been released in PDF and ePub under CC-0 public domain license, so use it at your will!

[theopillault]

After five days, we finished the Book Sprint on the “Cost of Freedom” as part of the #FREEBASSEL campaign. The book will be released on Monday, November 9 under a CC0 license on costoffreedom.cc.

44 contributors, including 12 on-site book sprinters, wrote, compiled, and edited more than 50 original contributions, including paintings, poems, personal reflections, critical observations, polemical pieces, theoretical treatises and calls for action about moving within and living with free culture and all its complexities, as well as personal texts about Bassel Khartabil.

[theopillault]

The Cost of Freedom is a book that will be written in Marseille from November 2nd to 6th. We are looking for activists, artists, designers, developers, researchers, and writers involved with free knowledge movements ( open access / culture / data / education / government / hardware / science / software / wiki ) to join the effort and take part in this Book Sprint.

Freedom comes with many costs, not least responsibility. Social, psychological, financial, bodily, emotional : known and unknown costs, often to bystanders, turn any strategy to gain and protect freedom into an ambiguous quest. Sometimes because it isn't clear what freedom means.

Considering the costs borne by millions to obtain, for example freedom from slavery or freedom to vote, free knowledge movements seem rather safe and straightforward. By contrast, to consider the costs of free culture, free software or open scientific research may look adventurous, or perhaps just presumptuous. But this is what we will attempt to do, with appropriate humility.

Many people use and produce bits of free knowledge but any serious attempt quickly runs into tremendous barriers, in every field. Participants receive unequal welcome due to gender, language, cultural or economic differences. Occasionally, the production of intangible assets may intersects with broader historical movements, redefining their meanings and exposing their participants to unlimited costs.

During intense 5 days, a group of 10-12 people will gather in Marseille to discuss how free knowledge movements are built and what are the real costs attached to them. We will work together to see further than the fog of our news feeds and produce some sense by using the Book Sprint methodology created by Adam Hyde.                

[peteippel]

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Thankful for life. #thankful #life #paint #artist #art #writing #MissingBassel #Freebassel #studio #streetart #thanksgiving #graf #graffiti #painting #Ventura (at Pete Ippel)

[freebasseltarot-blog]

عندما يكون الحب مُتواجداً فليس هنالك داع للإعتذار لأن المحب يفهمك دائماً ... هكذا نجد أنه ليس هنالك مبادئ أخلاقية أعلى من الحب.