def. Combining media memes together to form a new memetic piece of media
This is an experimental work where I combine three versions of the song Heartbeats by Jose Gonzales with the advertising meme of the bouncing Sony balls intercut with characters from Halo 3 repeating the same movements.
Will we ever get to a point where we’ll be used to reading media this way?
For another iteration of my Master’s thesis I’ve been developing a new concept of what I call: Mash Media Storytelling.
def: Mash Media Storytelling – using appropriated media to tell a story through mass media channels.
This notion is largely inspired by Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky aka That Subliminal Kid and his work on compiling Sound Unbound.
Here’s an excerpt from my thesis:
In Sound Unbound: Sampling Digital Music and Culture, author, conceptual artist, and musician Paul D. Miller addresses, “the remix – how music, art, and literature have blurred the lines between what an artist can do and what a composer can create.” In editing Sound Unbound, Miller asked “artists to describe their work and compositional strategies.” What I will do in the following pages will do what Miller has done for music, for storytelling. I will analyze storytelling strategies and how participatory media has enabled the remix or mash-up of stories, which has created an evolved form of collaborative storytelling that uses appropriated content to reach a mass audience.
This is a presentation to the Library of Congress delivered by Kansas State professor Dr. Michael Wesch. It’s close to an hour long with intelligent analysis on: media, culture, community, privacy, and identity, as they relate to anthropology.
Grab a notebook, let the video pre-load and turn off all interruptions. This one is worth freeing up some brain space to absorb.
Working full-time and writing my Masters at the same time means that my summer is passing me by. It also means that I’ve got a killer computer tan.
Yup as expected Girl Talk threw the best party of the summer. Forget Pemberton, ya’ll should have been at the Commodore to see the cut and paste king (sorry Diplo) mash-up a record number of tracks keeping the ADD cocaine fueled crowd bouncing the whole time.
Check out new album here.
Some video I shot of the madness. My fresh white steps are wrecked now from being trampled on stage. I regret nothing.
Don’t know this girl, but I respect the fact that she rocks a Holga. I’m a little ashamed that I shot this with my tiny digital.
