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Posts tagged "remix"
Withnail & I vs Star Wars mashup by raffjones
When an out-of-work droid finds himself far from his natural habitat of Camden, thrown deep into a galaxy far far away, it does nothing to dampen his quest for cake, tea and the finest wines available to humanity…
Oh, this is good.
Filed under: Withnail & I
Andy Baio, “The New Prohibition”
“Fair use will not save you.”
Finally got around to watching Andy’s chilling talk on copyright, remix culture, and his legal battle and $30,000 settlement with the lawyers of photographer Jay Maisel. Ugh.
I wrote a little something about fair use for the New York Times last year. Murky waters:
Of course, one man’s fair use is another’s infringement, and unfortunately, the burden of proof in a fair use case is on the defendant, who, often lacking the money to fight in court, has no choice but to cease and desist. Many artists have suffered this fate, and so I continue making the blackouts with fingers crossed for a litigation-free future.
![Girl with a Pearl Earring Selfie
The Vermeer mashup represents one of the internet’s many mysteries, and highlights some of the problems current and future researchers face when aiming to determine points of origin for creative works expressed on the internet and uploaded as an image file.
The earliest reference to this piece I could find was March 5 2012, posted at the Clumsy Odd Stubborn Tumblr.[12] This post does not identify a source, nor the artist responsible. Later postings at other sites identified the artist as Mitchell Grafton, though with no link the artist’s site or original post source. The image achieved widespread exposure when it was posted by pioneer blogger Jason Kottke on October 18 2012.[13] Kottke clarifies that he has been unable establish an “airtight” source or attribution for this image.
(via Three Pipe Problem: Alteration and invention - Raphael, Vermeer and the mashup)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/e1f24669726fa0b8c9d7212a317d7f21/tumblr_mh54ypPYXi1qz6f4bo1_500.jpg)
Girl with a Pearl Earring Selfie
The Vermeer mashup represents one of the internet’s many mysteries, and highlights some of the problems current and future researchers face when aiming to determine points of origin for creative works expressed on the internet and uploaded as an image file.
The earliest reference to this piece I could find was March 5 2012, posted at the Clumsy Odd Stubborn Tumblr.[12] This post does not identify a source, nor the artist responsible. Later postings at other sites identified the artist as Mitchell Grafton, though with no link the artist’s site or original post source. The image achieved widespread exposure when it was posted by pioneer blogger Jason Kottke on October 18 2012.[13] Kottke clarifies that he has been unable establish an “airtight” source or attribution for this image.
(via Three Pipe Problem: Alteration and invention - Raphael, Vermeer and the mashup)
Bad lip reading of NFL players
Take footage of NFL players, coaches, and officials talking, dub it poorly with alternate dialogue, and you get a bit of genius.
Really, really funny. Filing this under: captions
DJ Rob Swift on the techniques of scratching (and the ethics of copying)
Around 8:53, he explains the principle of what I like to call “transformation is flattery” in chapter two of Steal Like An Artist:
If you’re going to copy, figure out a way to make it better. Figure out a way to incorporate your personality in that particular style that you saw a DJ perform. In that way you’re always trying to keep the art progressing and you’re helping the art grow.
You don’t want to just be a copycat, you don’t want to just be someone who’s replicating what they’ve seen already. You want to understand what a person is doing, learn it, then make it better. That’s what people like Grandmaster Flash, Mix Master Ice, Cash Money all did from that one scratch that Grand Wizzard Theodore did.
(Source: nomadrobot, via braiker)
David Carr writes about efforts to shape a code of conduct for content aggregators online, including Maria Popova’s new website, The Curator’s Code.
Quoting Simon Dumenco:
“We want some simple, common-sense rules. There should be some kind of variation of the Golden Rule here, which is that you should aggregate others as you would wish to be aggregated yourself.”
A code for remixing was something Kirby and I were trying to squeeze out of yesterday’s SXSW panel (not sure we succeeded) and something I’ve been thinking about since I drew this “Good Theft vs. Bad Theft” chart for Steal Like An Artist.
My gut check for creative theft: If I’m alone in an elevator with an artist I’ve stolen from: Does she pat me on the back and say good job, or does she punch me in the face?
