The Evolution of Remix Culture

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[lottiesocks]

The guy talking has an unendurably annoying and geeky voice

[normative]

True, true

[jqp364]

@normative The only point I am trying to make is that this might be worlds of fun, but there is nothing original about ANYTHING that was done here. Do it all you like, I don't care. But I do get a bit put out when you act as though there was something about it that was original, inventive, or new. That is taking credit where none is due.

[normative]

I had nothing to do with either video, so I'm not taking credit for anything. And if it makes you feel any better, I'm sorry you weren't invited.

[jqp364]

I have to agree with "anotherfoolonthehlLL": if you are going to be an apologist for "remixing" you could at least show SOMETHING original, not just 8+ minutes of doing things others have done in dance clubs for generations.

This was not remixing. All the same music, no video mashup... just clips of people emulating a 30 year old film.

This was little more than cultural and intellectual stagnation patting itself on the back. Do you know what "decadence" means? No? I suggest you look it up.

[normative]

I invite everyone to click through and behold the vast creative output of the folks with little better to do with their evenings than heap scorn on some kids having a bit of fun.

[Wierdoinc]

This video talks about putting songs on videos. That's not remixing.

[GAEB4813]

Please excuse my ignorance but what is that movie 1:30 ?

[andyfitz]

sitting on an armchair- check

preppy sweater over button up shirt - check

douche-bag hand gestures - check

opinions of things - check

condescendingly whiny voice - check

thats a tick in every box

[timeofwonder2009]

I very much like your defence "of just having fun". For me there is something extremely rare and precious in these videos: true expression. It is something worth protecting, and there are moments of true beauty in all of them. I am glad you took up this example, since -in contrast to the mash ups Lessig showed- the creators themselves enter the video themselves. So, I agree with you, this is something different, and I also agree that we should protect the sharing of it.

[annoyedwithsignup]

@normative Couldn't agree with you more on this.

[keloras]

@greenback001

Oh delicious irony.

[DarkKnightBob1o1]

reading too much into it.

[truffaut015]

Sorry, but what you're talking about isn't - people have been doing this kind of thing since it was possible to buy a cine-cameras (there's a term from the archive) at a semi-affordable price for relatively ordinary people. Nice that you have discovered this for yourself, but maybe a little historical perspective and knowledge night be useful, too, and let you add something original and new. Simply relabelling a very old (in media terms) practice isn't originality, or conceptual thinking