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SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 2011
Remixing the remix
8.27.11 I rewatched the remix and how it evolves culture you tube video and really listened to what I think Glen wanted us to understand, and I think this is it: All art has something new to share, but what is personaized is based on something inspired from the past, from someone elses creativity. Remix allows us naïve artists to express ourselves in a familiar but also new way, that always results in collaborational and social ramifications. The Brat pack mashups are relational recordings and statements while at the same time furthering those relationships, sparking new creativity somewhere else by those participating and those just observing. Just watching those mashups and remixes not only made me wish I could get up and dance,
but also to get busy creating something inspiring and moving, whether it be physical, emotional, mentally or spiritual. Something I could direct, perform, have fun with and change the world with, just like those ordinary people doing something extraordinary. I apologize for continuing to brutally remix and beat this message to death. One of my weak points is that I have trouble being brief.
I was intrigued that Glen started the class with these videos, very different from what most other educators do. It felt like he is saying, by his methods and his first class message,
“Go ahead and let yourself be free to create what you really want to express, be different and unique, be yourselves.” “No one here is going to criminalize you for it, because I am a criminal myself…”
There is no better example than that, demonstrate by doing, not just talking.
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