YouTube dilemma

There is a dilemma that Kenyan musicians and others around the world face when they put their music on YouTube: YouTube video can be downloaded by people who are Internet savvy enough. The situation is compounded by the fact that YouTube’s terms of service hold users responsible for following copyright law. This means that you cannot act on YouTube itself, […]

Call me Mr. Lucky!

I didn’t like the head coach, so I left the soccer team my last year in high school. The following fall (1965) I enrolled at the local university in my hometown of Burlington, IA, primarily to avoid recruitment and the inevitable trip to Vietnam if I had been recruited. Back then, students attending college were exempt from conscription. In the […]

Jeffrey Sebelia Fluxus

If you love Project Runway and designers, you would probably thank season three winner Jeffrey Sebelia and his work. What are you doing these days? Of course, he has a new job as chief designer for the company called Fluxus. If you don’t remember Sebelia, he was a tall, punk-looking guy with tattoos around his neck. Sebelia was selected to […]