Professor / turntablist / activist / clever person DJ Spooky’s new movie “Rebirth of a Nation”, which recently premièred at MOMA, is now available on DVD – and it’s definitely something you might want to own. Originally commissioned as a live multimedia performance, it uses Spooky’s mad remixing skills, plus a heavy dose of his … Continued
This simple-as-pudding Youtube-based image generator by NYC programmer David Kraftsow is a potentially infinite source of online creativity that plays to the idea of the web as giant Xeroxer to the world. The gizmo asks you to enter your Youtube URL or a search term (like your favorite web artiste for instance), and instantly turns … Continued
Hungarian new media open sourcers Kitchen Budapest have created an animation package with unusually high levels of Luddite-friendliness. Breathe life into your own virtual puppets using your basic household tech: a digital camera and webcam mic will do just fine. Named as Pixelache Software of the Year 2009, the tool invites continuous, real-time interaction, making … Continued
Why torture yourself by sitting through feature-length 1980s action movies, when you could just watch the super-compact versions re-worked by Brit rappers Mouthmaster Murf and DJ Mayhem? Their two meticulously crafted Youtube clips sum up Robocop and Predator in just a few minutes, mixing the original film and dialogue with cleverly cut beats and rhymes.
Tate Online, the website of the well-known museums in the UK has a nice collection of video reports. Plenty of artist interviews, performances, discussions and specials features like TateShots and Tate: Remixed. The latter is a digital media collaboration between B3 Media and Tate. Four spoken-word artists and filmmakers were commissioned to produce a series … Continued
RIP: A Remix Manifesto is a radical open source documentary film that addresses the Great Copyright Debate in the age of mass piracy. The Montreal-based director Brett Gaylor, a veteran of digital democracy, shares his raw footage at opensourcecinema.org and invites the public to remix it, pioneering a new mash-up movie genre as he goes.
Skeletons scarry? Not when they consist of the bones of Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny or Road Runner. The South Korean artist Hyung Koolee makes ‘life’-like skeletons of famous cartoon figures like Felix the Cat and Tom & Jerry using the techniques of paleontologists. They look very cute and the funny thing is they pose in … Continued
Tagline of this website: “They were into you, so they made you a tape.” Cassettefrommyex.com is an utterly nostalgic, but lovely and original tribute to those old beloved mix tapes. Most of the stories were written by pros – writers, journalists, musicians and the like – which is a nice break for a change, and … Continued
In 2006, the Dutch VJ-DJ duo Drifter TV toured the Netherlands to promote their DVD release on the Submarine Channel DVD label. To celebrate, the guys from Drifter TV created a funky, new-and-improved VJ Machine, so you can be your own VJ. Thanks guys! The VJ Machine doesn’t work with some newer Flash versions. See … Continued
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