_creator: Vospi _released: 2004 - onwards _type: Singles Collection _genre: Various Electronic _license: Proprietary _downloads: Available

With a very rare blend of strong, emotional meLodies and top-tier production, Vospi's music hits all the right spots

Originally hailing from Krasnodar, Vospi's music blends an interesting

diversity of influences, still sounding fresh two

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decades on.

His catalogue spans from a strong foundation in Liquid-Drum-and-Bass (as heard in Nervous, or Bass Through!), to somber reflections (Ne Perevibay), to the dark and semi-Industrial (Black Mandala), with many surprising touchstones in between.

Vospi's tracks have moved through various DDR-style

rhythm games over the years, and he is still going strong as a producer today.

You can also find him sharing music and production tips on his YouTube channel, or joining his professional production lessons as a student.

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_creator: David Revoy _released: 2014-2024 _type: Webcomic

_entries: 42 (planned end) _license: CC-BY 4.0 _funding: Crowdfunding

Beautifully drawn charismatic webcomic about the adventures of a witch, her cat, and the world around them

Webcomics tend to draw in a passionate community of readers who have fallen in love with the comic's characters and art style.

Alll the way from the great Technologist’s Union, it’s an honor to welcome the

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With Pepper & Carrot, David Revoy has created an open-source webcomic which this community is free to carry on further themselves.

The planned finish of 42 "episodes" out over 10 years may not sound like many, the quality speaks for itself. This quality, combined with the open- source nature, has led the work to be translated into 27 languages, as

well as being adapted into a variety of other media: animated shorts, a card game, a board game, and several physical releases.

Revoy announced wrapping up with the comic in 2024, moving on to a new open-source project, Mini Fantasy Theatre.

Links: [ Official Website ]

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WRITING

CHAPTER ONE: Creators

In 1928, a cartoon character was born. An early Mickey Mouse made his debut in May of that year, in a silent flop called Plane Crazy. In November, in New York City’s Colony Theater, in the first widely distributed cartoon synchronized with sound, Steamboat Willie brought to life the character that would become Mickey Mouse.

Synchronized sound had been introduced to film a year earlier in the movie The Jazz Singer. That success led Walt Disney to copy the technique and mix sound with cartoons. No one knew whether it would work or, if it did work, whether it would win an audience. But when Disney ran a test in the summer of 1928, the results were unam-

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A still-relevant primer on the recent history of copyright, and where it took some terrible turns

Did you know that Disney's first Mickey Mouse film was half parody of another film released earlier that year? Did you know that

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biguous. As Disney describes that first experiment,

A couple of my boys could read music, and one of them could play a mouth organ. We put them in a room where they could not see the screen and arranged to pipe their sound into the room where

our wives and friends were going to see the picture.

talents, Ub Iwerks, put it more strongly: “I have never been so thrilled in my life. Nothing since has ever equaled it.”

atively new. Synchronized sound brought life to a form of creativity that had rarely—except in Disney's hands—been anything more than filler for other films. Throughout animation’s early history, it was Dis- ney’s invention that set the standard that others struggled to match. And quite often, Disney’s great genius, his spark of creativity, was built upon the work of others.

marks another important transition. In that year, a comic (as opposed to cartoon) genius created his last independently produced silent film. That genius was Buster Keaton. The film was Steamboat Bill, Jr

silent film, he had mastered using broad physical comedy as a way to spark uncontrollable laughter from his audience. Steamboat Bill, Jr. was a classic of this form, famous among film buffs for its incredible stunts. The film was classic Keaton—wildly popular and among the best of its genre.

The coincidence of titles is not coincidental. Steamboat Willie is a di-

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‘The boys worked from a music and sound-effects score. After several false starts, sound and action got off with the gun. The mouth organist played the tune, the rest of us in the sound de- partment bammed tin pans and blew slide whistles on the beat. The synchronization was pretty close.

The effect on our little audience was nothing less than elec- tric. They responded almost instinctively to this union of sound and motion. I thought they were kidding me. So they put me in the audience and ran the action again. It was terrible, but it was wonderful! And it was something new!

Disney's then partner, and one of animation’s most extraordinary

Disney had created something very new, based upon something rel-

This much is familiar. What you might not know is that 1928 also

Keaton was born into a vaudeville family in 1895. In the era of

Steamboat Bill, Jr. appeared before Disney's cartoon Steamboat Willie.

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the Radio Corporation of America used political muscle to stop the spread of FM radio? Did you know that in the US in 1930, a work could be copyright- protected up to 28 years, whereas today it is up to life of the author plus 70 years?

Free Culture makes it clear that it is not an argument against IP. Being written by the founder of Creative

Commons and Legal Scholar, it aims to make clear where copyright was incredibly useful, and where it was changed to the detriment of culture and innovation at large.

It is highly recommended reading this alongside

watching Everything is a Remix by Kirby Ferguson.

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It is very hard to show what makes M.U.G.E.N. such a romp without showcasing screenshots like the ones above, with rosters of endless IP- protected characters. It is for this reason it

should be stressed that none of these characters are included with with

the actual M.U.G.E.N. base game and are "homemade" and shared for

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Why is it included in this magazine? Elecbyte's freeware base game sets

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And if anyone asks, the characters I can make out above are FOX's Homer Simpson, Capcom's Ryu, and Toby Fox's Undyne..

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_creator: Dallas Jenkins _released: 2017 - _type: Series

_seasons: 4+ _free-to-watch: On Website _funding: Crowdfunded, etc

A fresh, deep, and human

take on the Jesus story,

actually standing on its

own quality as a modern series

You would usually be right to assume that another rendition of the Jesus story would be another lacking in much

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substance outside the Christian message. The Chosen overturns the tables of this preconception as it exploded onto the scene with a quality matching many of its greatest streaming series peers.

The first multi-season depiction of the Nazarene's ministry doesn't stop at him - and this is part of what makes the series so

powerful. Each of the disciples and surrounding communities are deeply humanised in a way that makes you realize the previous Jesus-spotlight approach has been doing a disservice to our understanding of what it would be like to actually live during the times of this historical and religious icon.

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