In RiP: A remix manifesto, Web activist and filmmaker Brett Gaylor explores issues of copyright in the information age, mashing up the media landscape of the 20th century and shattering the wall between users and producers.
The film’s central protagonist is Girl Talk, a mash-up musician topping the charts with his sample-based songs. But is Girl Talk a paragon of people power or the Pied Piper of piracy? Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil’s Minister of Culture Gilberto Gil and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow are also along for the ride.
I’ve been wanting to do something like this locally with A-OK, I love the concept an execution on this video by Sumit Paul.
Excerpt from iamthisland.org:
I AM THIS LAND is a response to a year of divisive rhetoric; it is Breakthrough’s call for a more positive and open-minded future for our country. The new year provides the opportunity to celebrate our diversity and recommit to building a society that values dignity, equality and justice.
http://Buckstyle.com presents a new animation on the stud trend by up-and-coming Brazilian motion graphics designer Caco Neves, Creative Direction & Styling by Steve Doyle, Photography & Production by Holly Falconer, Hair & Make-up by Holly Bellm, Styling Assistant Celia-Jane Ukwenya, Music by Joakim & The Disco, Photographer’s Assistant Mary Taylor, Model: Johan @ Premier. Clothing by Prada, Levi’s Dr Marten’s, New Look, Mint, Rokit, Year Zero, Primark.
TRON: Legacy arrived on Tuesday for our home-viewing pleasure. Today, Mogi Grumbles shared with ISO50 his take on the first TRON film, above is a teaser video, he made a tribute album of all ORIGINAL songs and his friend recut the whole movie to fit this new soundtrack to it. Download this new track for free for the ISO50 readers. The album will be available next week as a name your own price deal / free, i’ll link it once its available.
A constant theme throughout 2011 has got to be “Taking on the World.” Both for myself and for my friends and colleagues, I’ve seen everyone grow into beautiful and ambitious people, taking on larger clients and accounts and spreading their professional wings to fly. Some days, I wake up and feel like I can take on the world, and some days, I wake up and feel like the world has taken me on.
It would be impossible to say these emotions and feelings haven’t influenced my listening habits and on the days you feel a little overwhelmed, it’s nice to start your day off by regaining the upper hand. So with that in mind, I present to you my Showdown Mixcast in the Faked Potatoes Mixcast No. 015. I’ve selected tracks that are a little raw featuring more guitar than usual, some sultry saxophone and grungy production, all maintaining that vintage Western/B Horror Movie feel, for the days you just wanna stare down the guy in the black cowboy’s hat and say, “Fuck you, sir.”
Yesterday Death Cab for Cutie performed the first ever one-take, scripted, LIVE music video for their new single ‘You Are A Tourist’. As fans and listeners, we able to tune in to www.youareatourist.com/ at 4pm PST / 7pm EST to watch them perform live on a stage with dancers, lights, and some great visuals. So awesome. This is exactly the reason they are my favorite band of all time, and have remained as such for 10 years.
Sunday night at the Kelowna Community Theatre, some close friends Kingdom Cloud (@KINGDOM_CLOUD), Aidan Knight (@aidanknight), Said the Whale (@saidthewhale) and We Are The City (@WeAreTheCity) all performed on the same stage, which to be quite honest (and every one that went already knows) was completely awesome. This was less like a concert and more getting together with old friends and turning the stereo up way loud.
I got to sit down with all these bands and talk to them about the show for Awesome Okanagan and unfortunately we have to extend our apologies to Kingdom Cloud, Sven Peterson and Said the Whale as a technical mishap deleted all your interviews, probably the least awesome thing we’ve reported on yet.
Enjoy the rest of the video as I talk to We Are The City about night predators from the sky, getting a little too excited during Jackie Chan movies, and the possibility of an Aidan Knight/Debra-Jean side-project EP. Said the Whale, we promise to make it up to you. Kingdom Cloud, you’re here all summer, let’s make a music video.
As I collect songs for various Mixcasts, I’m basically taking note of any song that gives me shivers or excites me or remains memorable throughout the day. When I get back home I drop them all into one big playlist then start to organize them out as themes emerge in songs. It’s been fourteen Mixcasts now, and three Mixtapes, as there are nearly five other Mixcasts already blocked out and a bunch of songs yet to be sorted I really started to realize how many covers I had that would fit the program we’ve developed here.
This means, the good news is there’s at least one more Mixcast of covers down the road, but I’m getting ahead of myself… artists featured this Mixcast are:
Before You Accuse Me by Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Pioneers by Mystery Jets
Kids by The Kooks
Float On by Blackbird Blackbird
Daft Punk Is Playing at My House by Magic Arm
Not In Love (feat. Robert Smith) by Crystal Castles
In for the Kill by Miike Snow
Tar Heart by Zeigeist
Shelter by Vitaminsforyou
Here is the music video for Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill”
and the music video for Crystal Castle + Robert Smith’s “Not in Love”
They disbanded, departed, and reformed as PEARL.
