Bill Ward's Brickpile » creativecommons http://www.brickpile.com Building a brighter tomorrow with LEGO® bricks Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:11:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Little Australian Houses? http://www.brickpile.com/2009/05/14/little-australian-houses/ http://www.brickpile.com/2009/05/14/little-australian-houses/#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 08:04:41 +0000 Bill http://www.brickpile.com/?p=384
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    • ]]>     One of my pictures has been used by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on their Web site to illustrate a radio story about the relative merits of buying versus renting a home. You can see it on the ABC News homepage as a small thumbnail on the right hand side, and if you click the “Best of abc.net.au” link it takes you to a “best of” page where that story is featured with a larger version of the image at the top of the page. Here’s the photo they used (from their Web server):
    Little houses via abc.net.au

    My photos are published with a Creative Commons attribution license, so I’m not mad that they used the photo, but they (as far as I can tell) failed to credit the photo which I think is in pretty poor taste. (If you like the models, I have posted the LDraw instructions online.) Here’s the original photo, linked to its page on Flickr:
    Little Houses on Flickr

    You can really see the blurriness created when they cropped it and re-saved the JPEG (probably with a high level of compression). Thanks to Stephen Calder, aka aussiechef67 for pointing it out via a comment on Flickr.

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    ]]>     http://www.brickpile.com/2009/05/14/little-australian-houses/feed/ 0     Nobody expects the Spanish Iniquisition! http://www.brickpile.com/2008/10/11/nobody-expects-the-spanish-iniquisition/ http://www.brickpile.com/2008/10/11/nobody-expects-the-spanish-iniquisition/#comments Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:32:24 +0000 Bill http://www.brickpile.com/?p=208
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    • ]]>     You’re probably well aware of the famous Monty Python sketch about the Spanish Inquisition (if you’re not, or if you haven’t seen it in a while, or just want a good laugh, it’s available on YouTube). Well, it turns out that someone – I know not who – put together a LEGO homage to this great piece of British comedy on the castle display at BrickCon. In fact, I even took a picture of it. But the thing is, I didn’t spot it at all until someone pointed it out on my Flickr photos!

    The guy who spotted it, who goes by the name </arpy>, edited my photo and reposted it in his photostream. Isn’t Creative Commons grand? Anyway, here’s his version of the photo:

    Spanish Inqiusition (cropped)

    I guess I should spend more time admiring the creations and not so much time staring at the viewfinder of my camera, eh?

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