“Corporations are completely taking over our culture and telling us that we can only consume it, and we’re saying no, we’re saying we want to actually create with it, respond to it, take it, mutilate it, cut it up.”
Chances are you already know how illogically happy i get from anything that has to do with participatory culture, collaboratory culture, remixing and reappropriating etc. (That’s not to say that I don’t enjoy culture/art that’s not collaborative or participatory, most of what I am exposed to and love is in fact not. Or, I mean it is in the sense that the artist might have been heavily influenced by somebody else, or even ‘legally’ sampled somebody else/the piece of culture being a product of collaboration itself, like music and tv shows etc. But it isn’t in the sense that there is a clearly marked end product with a sender and a receiver, and the receiver is in most cases not supposed to do anything but receive. Whatever, I’m digging myself into a hole. My point was there’s a special fuzzy-happy place in my heart for the kind of culture/art that takes those clearly marked end products and then mess them up or make them better (or worse) or subvert them or analyze them & pick them apart by means of something that’s not a traditional academic analysis, eg making videos, fan fiction etc)
You can watch the entire documentary here. I’m about halfway through, but so far I’m loving it. There’s a lot about the problems with copyright, which is regrettably timely, as The EU recently extended musical copyright, from 50 to 70 years(!!) & the problem is of course how do you encourage creativity but discourage plagiarism? Oh I’d love to talk to somebody who really knows stuff about copyright and pick their brains!
So anyway, this is my current favourite vid (made by Gianduja Kiss at imeem) which sort of explores the repeating day trope in tv shows. I recently also watched this by tearful-eye at lj, and I’ve never actually watched criminal minds, I just love the music and the editing and the vid is sort of like a narrative in itself so you don’t actually have to know the show. And this is Xena and the Indigo Girls, both of which are prone to grandiose and epic declarations of feelings and meaning of life type stuff, plus has to be the gayest ever combination. And if you don’t know Xena (which I watched all the fucking time in my formative years), here’s really all you need to know:
I å like sånt, men designeren i me e veldig nøye med at man alltid må passe på å stå på riktig side av copyrightlovan
Haha, Xeeenaa! I va aldri heilt med på den. Men JAG likte i!
Ja d hadde nok i au vore i utgangspunktet, men viss i måtte ha betalt over 260 000 dollar for å få gi ut en mashup, og kanskje ekstra for kvar gang i skulle framføre den, så hadde i kanskje vurdert å bli kriminell i au:P Copyright i se sjøl e jo egentlig ikkje så dumt, d e bare måten d fungere på no som e så tragisk/ulogisk. I e bare glad for at d e folk ute der som teste grensan og utfordre systemet (og lage nye alternativ. Creative Commons yay!!) sjøl om i e altfor goody-two-shoes te å gjør d sjøl.
Xena e skikkelig camp og e skikkelig sjølhøytidelig samtidig som dem ikkje tar se sjøl alvorlig i d heile tatt. Nokka av d e skikkelig bra og nokka av d greie i ikkje å sjå på engang for d e så cringeworthy. Morsommere å sjå ka andre har fått ut av d!