{"id":1681,"date":"2009-01-06T20:06:06","date_gmt":"2009-01-06T20:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/06\/apparently-i-am-a-freesoul\/"},"modified":"2009-01-06T20:10:42","modified_gmt":"2009-01-06T20:10:42","slug":"apparently-i-am-a-freesoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/01\/apparently-i-am-a-freesoul\/","title":{"rendered":"Apparently I am a Freesoul&hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I was contacted by Joi Ito, asking for permission to use one of his pictures of myself in a photo gallery book he was putting together. The book was <a href=\"http:\/\/freesouls.cc\/\" target=\"_blank\">Freesouls<\/a> and the aim was:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u2026to put together a photography book which is about all of the inspirational moments and inspirational people from the last year. I have been lucky to be able to capture many of those moments in my photography and I am hoping that a book will be a good way to provide context for and share those moments with a wider audience of people.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Here\u2019s one of the pictures in the collection of someone that you just might recognise\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/joi\/2104422015\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Ewan Spence, by Joi Ito\" style=\"border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-bottom: 0px\" height=\"273\" alt=\"Ewan Spence, by Joi Ito\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/exs-by-joiito.jpg\" width=\"404\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The picture was taken at Le Web 2007, and it\u2019s one of the better ones of me from that period (there\u2019s a reason I like <em>audio<\/em> podcasts). The goal is to prove that even though all the images in the book are licensed via Creative Commons, the artist (here it\u2019s Ito, but it could easily be anyone else) can still make a living.<\/p>\n<p>An admirable goal, and the CC crowd wait to read about the results, presumably to be posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/joi.ito.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joi\u2019s blog<\/a> first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year I was contacted by Joi Ito, asking for permission to use one of his pictures of myself in a photo gallery book he was putting together. The book was Freesouls and the aim was: \u2026to put together a photography book which is about all of the inspirational moments and inspirational people from the last year. I have been lucky to be able to capture many of those moments in my photography and I am hoping that a book will be a good way to provide context for and share those moments with a wider audience of people. Here\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[13,3,111],"tags":[93,593,591,365,364,590,181,592],"class_list":["post-1681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links-to-my-articles","category-personal-thoughts-and-messages","category-web-20","tag-art","tag-book","tag-camera","tag-cc","tag-creative-commons","tag-freesouls","tag-joi-ito","tag-picture","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-r7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}