That is the question. If you have the answer you could be in with the chance to win some pretty cool prizes. Total Recut is hosting a Video Remix challenge with this as it’s theme. You can submit a video between 30 seconds and 3 minutes to give your take on what you think Remix Culture is all about. There are many ways you could go about this so why not fire up you imagination and get creative. I have a few ideas swimming around in that fishbowl on top of my shoulders! Hopefully I can pull something out the the bag for this. Anyways, here’s some more info…
TotalRecut.com is hosting a Video Remix Challenge over the next two months and we want you to create a short video using the theme: ‘What is Remix Culture?’ You can you use any footage you can find, including Public Domain and Creative Commons work, but the finished video cannot be longer than 3 minutes or shorter than 30 seconds long. The prizes include a Laptop computer loaded with video editing and conversion software, a digital camcorder, a digital media player, as well as Special Edition Total Recut T-Shirts, Books, DVDs and CDs. We have an amazing lineup of judges for the contest including Lawrence Lessig, Henry Jenkins, Kembrew McLeod, Pat Aufderheide, JD Lasica and Mark Hosler. You can find out more information at: http://www.totalrecut.com/contest1.php. Entries will be accepted from the 1st of May until the 2nd June 2008 when public voting will begin. The best 10 videos at the end of the 2 week voting period will be put forward into the final, where they will be voted on by the judging panel. The winners will be announced around the 1st of July. So get busy making those videos!
Your Video Remix…
- must not exceed 3 minutes in length, including credit sequence
- must not be less than 30 seconds in duration
- must reflect the theme: ‘What is Remix Culture?’
- must remix previously published video footage
- may include your own original footage, typography and effects
- must include a credits sequence at the end attributing all sampled material
- should be licenced with a Creative Commons license
Submission Period Begins : 1st May 2008
Deadline for Submission : 2nd June 2008
Public Voting Begins : 2nd June 2008
Public Voting Ends :16th June 2008
Finalists Announced : 16th June 2008
Judging Panel Begins : 16th June 2008
Judging Ends : 30th June 2008
The new NIN album is out now. Well that was dropped without much fanfare, but it had been expected to soon follow Trent’s outing with Saul Williams. It is a four part album and available at different ‘fair enough’ price plans and you can get part one for free. It was released yesterday and gave the servers a bit of a battering so the site is temporarily down while they work a fix. However, in a first for sure, you are directed over to The Pirate Bay to download a torrent of the free songs!
This post was originally an obituary of sorts for Stage6, but I have added to it over the last few days and brought in a strand which looks at online video in certain areas in more depth. I also suggest some ideas in a Q&A with myself at the end!
Stage6, the high quality video hosting / sharing site operated by DivX withdrew it’s service last Thursday (28/01/08). This was sad news for the community of users who had used the site to share videos over the last year and a half or so. I’ve been meaning to post this over the last few days, but was waiting to see if there was any other developments. On Monday last (25/01/08) the news was sent out that the video site Stage6 is to close down. Tom (aka Spinner) was the messenger who broke the news which was displayed as a blog post on the front page. Continue reading ‘Exit Stage6 & the way forward…’
I’ve just finished watching the second installment of ‘Steal This Film‘. Put this on top of the first part and it is a damn good look at the ‘culture of copying’ which has existed (as a form of communication) since the dawn of time. I met with one of the makers behind this worthy project at Picnic Network last year and was very impressed with the idea behind the film. It does the necessary job of putting into motion pictures the issues surrounding copyright which are being written about so much these days by forward thinking scholars. The first part focuses largely on the debate surrounded piracy online and in particular the story of The Pirate Bay. This recently released second part takes a closer look at the history of ‘copying’ with good sections on the printing press (which was accused of being black magic on it’s dawning!) and on the rise of the internet from it’s inception as a reaction to Sputnik.
Anyway I won’t ruin the film, that would be worse than stealing it…so go ahead and download it!
Oh no, I’m losing it! Yet another YouTube craze which I’m a bit slow to pick up on (well YouTube isn’t the only site on the internet you know!). So maybe you’ve seen it, maybe you haven’t, either way this is a blast. Back at the end of November 2007, this hit cyberspace…. (pay attention)
It was influenced by this from June 2007..
Well there are loads of spin offs of these now, the top one is on an official Daft Punk YouTube page, so that makes if official, but it doesn’t give any history about it. Posted on the day before elsewhere is this one of the two girls doing the routine without boxes on their heads. Well their choreography is spot on, especially of course in the official version. This video here gives credit to the original by mashing the two together.
In my opinion, these are far better than Daft Punk’s original video, done in the anime style of cartoon. As much of a fan of this art I am, I wasn’t all that impressed by that concept for these music videos / film that is ‘Interstella 555′. Continue reading ‘Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.’
