Now Playing: Big Buck Bunny

It's here! Big Buck Bunny is a free short movie created by the Peach open movie project. The animated movie is freely licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license, which means, according to their "about" page: "you can freely reuse and distribute this content, also commercially, for as long you provide a proper [...]

Peach! (Free Software, Free Movies)

Originally published 18 September 2007 in Free Software Magazine.

Apparently I've been living under a rock, because I only recently found out about the Blender project's free and open source short movie, Elephants Dream, when I happened across Terry Hancock's review of it last year at Free Software Magazine.
The motivation behind the project was to create [...]

Introducing: Minimalist Reviews

I like reading reviews, usually of books and movies. I like it when the reviewer has some insight about the item being reviewed that helps me see things I missed, educates me, or clarifies my own feeble thinking.
Does that sound like I'm reading the review after the fact? Aren't reviews supposed to help [...]