[sc-announce] "WSJ profiles Jesse Dylan, work in science" - Science Commons blog
Kaitlin Thaney
kaitlin at creativecommons.org
Mon Apr 6 12:50:00 EDT 2009
WSJ profiles Jesse Dylan, work in science
April 6th, 2009<http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2009/04/06/wsj-profiles-jesse-dylan-work-in-science/>by
Kaitlin Thaney
The Wall Street Journal <http://online.wsj.com/home-page> has a wonderful
piece<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123872027544485035.html#articleTabs%3Darticle>on
director and producer Jesse
Dylan <http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0245888/>, detailing his journey from Elvis
Costello <http://www.elviscostello.com/> videos and
film<http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0245888/#director>to his connection
with Creative
Commons <http://creativecommons.org/> and Science
Commons<http://sciencecommons.org/>.
The article looks at Jesse’s personal impetus for his latest work and his
desire to better explain complex issues in the sciences in simplified terms.
Dylan was recently recognized for his Emmy award winning “Yes We Can”
video<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjXyqcx-mYY>from President
Obama’s campaign, with musical artist
will.i.am <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will.i.am> from the Black Eyed
Peas<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_eyed_peas_%28band%29>,
that quickly became an Internet hit. The Science Commons team first met
Dylan in spring of last year, and after a few conversations with John
Wilbanks <http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/wilbanks/>, planning for
the first Science Commons informational video began. The
video<http://sciencecommons.org/about/science-commons-dylan-video/>was
launched <http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2008/12/> in December as
part of the Creative Commons annual
campaign<http://support.creativecommons.org/>and can be seen
here <http://sciencecommons.org/about/science-commons-dylan-video/>, as well
as on our home page <http://sciencecommons.org/>.
Back in December when we asked Dylan about the video, he said, “I believe
Science Commons represents the true aspiration of the web, and I wanted to
tell their story. They’ve changed the way we think about exploration and
discovery; the important and innovative ideas need to be shared. I believe
it’s vital to revolutionizing science in the future. I hope this is just the
beginning of our collaboration.”
We hope so too. Thanks again to Jesse and his team for their work on these
videos and ongoing support. For more information about the Science Commons
video or “A Shared Culture”, click
here<http://sciencecommons.org/about/science-commons-dylan-video/>and
here <http://creativecommons.org/videos/a-shared-culture>.
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Kaitlin Thaney
Program Manager
Science Commons, a project of Creative Commons
http://sciencecommons.org
http://creativecommons.org
kaitlin at creativecommons.org
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