Postmodern crisis ( Copying songs)

The Bee Gees one of my favorite bands, and they have so many memorable songs for many people. some band took advantage from there songs to gain fame singing there song to raise there name in music.

one of the songs that i love is Words and they released this song in 1968. 

   

One if the famous band how they copy this famous song is Boyzone :

Although they did it very good but stil they did not add any thing new to the music industry.

One also of my favoret songs of Bee Gees is  How Deep Is Your Love .

another band also copy the same song "Take That"

 

They did a good job with the song and i am sure many people listen to the song from them not from Bee Gees .

Another famous singer is Cat Steven's  and his song  father and son 

It had been copied by the same band i mention at the beginning Boyzone :

Microsoft's and there Strategy To Clone Ideas

After reading this article :

Paul Allen: Microsoft's Strategy Was To Clone Rivals, Take Their Ideas

 i was not surprised because Microsoft  had a lot of these case along its history. Microsoft strategy for copying ideas from other companies is obvious  for technology followers, one of there recent cases is with google because of there search engine Bing :

"After noticing curious search results at Bing, then running a sting operation to investigate further, Google has concluded that Microsoft is copying Google search results into its own search engine."

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20030206-264.html#ixzz1LXFko7D0"


Apple one of the companies that had in the past many issues and cases with Microsoft the case was "a copyright infringement lawsuit in which Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.) sought to prevent Microsoft Corporation and Hewlett-Packard from using visual graphical user interface (GUI) elements that were similar to those in Apple's Lisa and Macintosh operating systems." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Microsoft_Corporation)

Performace Art

Grid Art

Flipbook Animation

Abel Gance

Abel Gance is a French film director. He is best known for his major silent film: the monumental 

Napoléon. It is a gigantic six-hour documentary of Napoleon, outlining his livelihood from his 

schooldays and the Terror, ending in his successful conquest of Italy.  The film stops there because 

it was planned to be part one of six, but director Abel Gance never raised the money to make the 

other five. The film’s famous standing because of the remarkable range of techniques that Gance 

uses to tell his story. 

Black Thursday - October 24, 1929

1929 - The stock market. 

What made the stock market crash?

Black Thursday - October 24, 1929

On the morning of Thursday, October 24, 1929, stock prices Dropped . Huge numbers of people were trading their stocks. People throughout the country watched the ticker as the numbers it spit out spelled their fate.

During the 1920s a long boom took stock prices to heights points never before seen. From 1920 to 1929 stocks more than multiplied in value. Many investors became persuaded that stocks were a sure thing and lent heavily to capitalize more money in the market. 

But in 1929, the bubble rupture and stocks started to melt down. In 1932 and 1933, they hit lowest, down about 80% from their highs in the late 1920s. This had sharp effects on the economy. Demand for goods weakened because people felt poor because of their losses in the stock market. New assets could not be sponsored through the sale of stock, because no one would buy.

But possibly the most significant effect was disorder in the banking system as banks tried to gather on loans. Sadder, many banks had themselves participated depositors' in the stock market. When word blowout that banks' moneys enclosed vast uncollectable loans and almost valueless stock certificates, people ran to withdraw their money.

By 1933, the banking system had mainly stopped to function. Investors had seen $140 billion vanish when their banks failed

Jazz the cultare

Many people around the world listen to jazz, and few of them from my personal experience know about it. Whenever I hear jazz music I remember the state of Louisiana, Chicago city, and New York City. Jazz has been a part of a proud African American tradition for over 100 years, I wasn’t wrong when I said that it remind me of Louisiana state, because it roots goes back to 1910 in New Orleans, and it’s not only a music it’s more like a culture.

 

From the very start, jazz has been about liberty, effort and discrete appearance. Its break from musical tradition and highlighted on improvisation and innovation set it up as the background to cultural changes, and it influences international culture today. Jazz is played, with its own local talent, on every land.

“During Prevention and the economic success of the 1920s, jazz became the soundtrack to parties in underground clubs, called "speakeasies," where pleasure ruled and outlawed liquor was consumed. Because of its roots in African-American culture, and the places, occasions and activities with which it was associated, jazz initially bore the label of "low culture."” (http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/jazz3.htm)

Sorry i'm late

Its a short movie that i saw , and i fund it amazing how they with a stills camera did the movie. please watch the movie and let me know what you think .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgpRz3RHJMw&feature=player_embedded 

Madama Butterfly

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E387c5RAhK4

What i fund interesting in this video is the representation of the pregnant woman , and how she carry in her stomach a small fish tank, that when it brooks the fish start to transform to a baby , and that image i fund amazing and it relate to the story of " Madama Butterfly ".