I love the public domain. What I love even more than the public domain is Creative Commons. Creative Commons offers another fantastic way to share and collaborate on work through a number of different licenses that creators can use to tailor how they want to share their work with the world. The music that I used for the book trailer for The Voyager Record was under a Creative Commons license. This gorgeous track by Chris Zabriskie, slightly altered in the video, is titled "What True Self? Feels Bogus, Let's Watch Jason X." The sound was exactly what we were looking for, and the title matched the reverent/irreverent nature of the book. And it was free to use and remix, as long as it was prope
For the new card-a-month feature I decided that I'm going to spotlight a different deck each time, while still relying on the astrological cards from the Minchiate to act as the subject of the reading. This time, for February, that means Aquarius and Pisces (numbered out of order, because the Minchiate is wacky). And for this month's deck, I used the Visconti Tarots from Lo Scarabeo. These are reproductions of the oldest known tarot deck in existence, the exquisitely designed Pierpont-Morgan Bergamo version of the Visconti-Sforza deck. This deck was commissioned in 1451 by the wealthy Milanese duke Filippo Maria Visconti, and is named after the places where most of the deck is currently hous
