Sung by your favorite female characters, Mad Men: Set Me Free is a musical mash up by Marc Faletti (@marcfaletti) and I (PopCulturePirate). As Peggy, Joan and Betty sing the MoTown hit “You Keep Me Hanging On”, the entirely female-framed version of Mad Men becomes an entertaining and refreshing re-articulation of female frustrations amidst rigid gender roles. “We love that feeling when two familiar pieces… Read more →
If you’ve ever tried to find a clip from a TV show or movie to make a point, illustrate an example or just laugh when you’re down, you know locating excerpts from specific shows online is hard as hell. Several organizations (and lobbyists?) have objected to the exemptions that allow creators to rip DVDs for fair use purposes (classrooms, remixing, documentary… Read more →
I was invited to the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard to review and workshop their newest report on youth and digital media. I’m excited to release their findings here. I’m excited not because I like kids or think they are our future. No, I’m excited because we finally have some cold, hard stats on who’s creating content…. Read more →
There are two days left to defend remix. Every three years we have to defend remix and it’s an exhausting process. Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, video artists like myself who break the encryption on a DVD or sample online streaming videos could face legal threats, even if the video they create is considered fair use. Criminalizing access to… Read more →
The 2012 World Economic Forum began yesterday (January 25th) in Davos, Switzerland and even though these Yes Men remixes were created in 2010, they still provide a fantastic (and dissident) variation on the forum’s new theme: The Great Transformation: Shaping New Models. By simply re-dubbing video interviews with global economic, government and corporate leaders, the Yes Men create a more… Read more →
In or out of context? That’s the question. How much should the audience relate to the original story and how much should they take out of context when it comes to remix? I rely on the phrase remix storytelling when describing one-source remix works because I’m building a new narrative from scratch. But remixing requires using pop culture clips in… Read more →
