Go Discovery!

Booster sep

Boosters tumbling away after separation

Video of launch:

Discovery Launch from wRitErsbLock on Vimeo.

I have been reading comments on sites that are reporting on it and some people are upset at them for even bringing the lawsuit. Most say that they should have no control how their music is sold, that people that want just one song will not buy their music, pirate just the song they want, or just listen to only the song they want to. Some say that people should be able to buy just the songs they like. They seem to think that artists shouldn’t be allowed to dictate how they buy the artists work.

I think most people will agree that music is an art form. now looking at most CDs that are out are mostly full of songs that stand alone, each an individual on it’s own, kind of like a short story and the album a collection of short stories. Well then considering this, you would think that buying a song is the same as buying a short story, you can read it anytime you like without needing to read or buy any of the other stories in the book. This works great, but would this plan work for a novel?

‘I’d like to buy chapter 10 of War and Peace please’

Yes I could read just chapter 10 of War and Peace or just one chapter of any book. It may make sense, it might even be satisfying, but do you see the full picture, do you understand the full story? Could you truly say you had read it? How about movies? Most have chapter stops, you can jump to your favorite scene and watch just that, But if you buy Fight Club having never seen it (you’ve never seen Fight Club!) and just watched chapter 4, would you know what the whole movie is about? How about just watching one chapter of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil? How about just one chapter of a David Lynch movie… oh wait, David Lynch movies only have one chapter because… He wants you to watch the WHOLE movie. I guess you have to fast forward to the scene you want (unless you have a copy released before he made the studios remove the chapters stops)!

So would a writer or director want the publisher/studio selling individual chapters of their book/movie? I admit that I have read just a chapter of a book and watched just a part of a movie, but I had already either seen or read the rest of it. Sure, music is different, each song has to stand on it’s own, while a chapter of a book might make no sense if read on it’s own, the same with a movie,

So what is so wrong about Floyd, or any other artist, wanting you to have the whole story? Money is a great song, but in the context of Dark Side of the Moon it is brilliant. Mother is made clearer in the whole story told within The Wall, the same could be said of most of their albums. They are also not the only artists that paint a broader picture with the album as opposed to just a song.

Being an artist, I can understand wanting you vision to remain the way you want it to. Hell, even as a photographer I want to print the photo as I want it, and if the viewer just focuses on one part of it, I at least want them to see the full photograph as I wanted them to.

In case you don’t get the joke, THE ONE pronounces nuclear er I mean Corpsman as corpseman. Of course since he can do no wrong, he must have been using the politically correct term for Zombies!