From: Philip Hood (email suppressed)
Date: Fri Oct 20 2006 - 08:13:44 PDT
On Fri, 20 Oct 2006, Klaus W. Eisenlohr wrote:
> ... My comment to the proposed circulating system: I am
> sceptical this would fail
> as well, people have much more to feel part of a community
> and be reliable
> for the circulation, I believe ...
hello all,
since there's no pointed
opposition & there seems to be some
support, I'm going to try to build this
networked tool that will essentially act
as an decentralized netflix for the
framework/experimental/avant-garde
community.
I'll call it FRAMEFLIX. Basically
each person will send out 3 or so
copies of their films, and, then,
after they've recieved a film, they
will pass it along to the next person
on the list. In this manner, with
hope, the films will circulate and
everyone will get to see the others
films.
Furthermore, we should be able to
see at any glance who has a film.
We should also be able to track the
trajectory of a film, to find out where
a breakdown happened.
should someone want to have an actual
copy of the artists film, they can
then contact the artist and work something
out between them.
They could possibly just keep it, maybe
send the artist some cash or etc, and
have the artist mail to the next person
on the queue. etc. In this manner we
can keep the relative cost and effort at getting
a working and circulating library moving
around low and accessible to everybody.
I'm in Boston this weekend but when
I return I'll start to code this
up. I think it can and will work.
I think that the capitalist model
of netflix is a quite successful one
(although I'm not a member),
and theres no reason on god's earth
why we can't extend that - and even
make it better - to a community
based and shared approach model, with the
pointed goals of bringing the threshold
of overall cost of circulating the
work down, and with the general goal of
increasting accessibility.
The only reason why it wouldn't work is if:
1. people who
join the list don't initially send
out a few DVDs - which I'm sure is
not going to happen, or
2. people decide
to sit on the DVDs and not pass them
on to the next person - this is
a real possibility - but,
because we'll all be able to see who had
what, there'll be some degree of open
accounting that will take place. It
will also be relatively easy for
one to package and resend the
dvds (maybe).
-ml
pth
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