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I just found from Yovko about one of the most interesting projects in the last time: SimpleStudio. The project is presented for now only in Bulgarian, but I played a little bit there. True beautiful pictures! On the other hand, because on the web I know lots of photo blogs and sites focused on this theme, I asked Yovko why is this different, why people would use SimpleStudio and not flickr for example. Here is the answer: ” Flickr is just an online community… or communities… SimpleStudio is offline project – we have professional studio equipment – mobile, compact speedlights, reflectors, soft boxes, etc. Every quarter we will choose 2-3 young photographers and will give them all the equipment for free to realize their ideas – it is not easy to be young and to buy, rent or use studio equipment… Everybody can have a chance to work with SimpleStudio if he/she is agree to license the images under Creative Commons license… So we will provoke people to try free culture, creative commons licenses, generating free photos…” Brilliant and generous! I take my hat off. I would like to see this kind of initiatives in Romania too, unfortunately we have still a lot to learn and understand about what really free culture means, as our Bulgarians neighbors did. Find more about this project and what Yovko is trying to do on http://simplevisions.org/index.php?x=about Soon I’ll come with another story about initiatives and true community projects, this time from here, a few blocks from my office building, in Vancouver.