Remix/Pastiche

This was an interesting week to read about remixing. Are any ideas original? Should they be? What about building upon what others have thought and creating these ideas to enhance and change our culture? Should we have property rights for original ideas or should we encourage the sharing, collaborating, and evolution of ideas for the common good? I'm on the fence about this debate, but I think that in the end the greater good outweighs personal gain for an idea, especially if it helps our society. 

Remixing, or pastiche as I'm more familiar with, is the copying and changing of one's art (music, photography, videos, etc.) into something new and different in order to make commentary, appreciate it, or just have fun with it (like fan fiction).

I couldn't help myself on Twitter during the readings this week because so much of the remixing we read about needed to be experienced visually for me. And I shared it! Here's some impressive remixing of photography for your enjoyment (my favorite is Trump meets Kim Jong-Un hair) and some remixing of old postcards. 

Reading about music remixing made me think about the master of music remixing: Weird Al and one of his many Michael Jackson remixes:

The main challenge this module was to remix one of our colleagues in class, so I remixed Kelly Danahey who has published some interesting photography so far. As a lover of photography, I had to use her dramatic, often creepy art to make an entirely different story. I used her slow motion train from one of the Daily Create challenges to set the tone for sharing her creepy, foreboding photography in a video project. I used Wondershare Filmora for this project and quite enjoyed making it.

"The Day When It All Changed" by Holly Ables is licensed under CC BY 4.0 / A derivative from the original work.

Next, I dialogued with classmates Arielle Bonnell and Shar Behbahani about the Digital Youth Network. I used Wondershare Filmora to create/edit the video of our discussion and added bloopers, transitions, music, etc. to keep the viewer interested.