Tuesday, March 29, 2011

blog #10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1l4pDXbkic&feature=related

I thought it was important for a remix to be identified and still be relatable. I like this remix because it changes the mood of the song for me. It has a more uplifting beat and at times overlooks the lyrics—which I like.

The notion that we are going to remix items no matter what. That recreation is happening and will continue to happen has been really interesting to me. I started thinking about this more and then came to this revelation on pg. 50, “The act is the same: only the source is different.” (Lessig). The act of citing work will be the same—using of others people words or art will be the same the difference is how to cite. To properly give people credit. I think this goes with not only my remix but all remixes. The way we get our information is different but the info is the same. With a remix we are creating our culture and new art.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Blog #9

I believe Lessig’s key argument within the introduction is to showcase how everyday moments have become apart of the corporate world. That simple cultural actions, ie. Sharing home videos, has become a copyright issue now that a third party has entered the mix of this cultural documentation. The third party being technology, the Internet or for this example, Youtube. That recreating and using other peoples work is so embedded within our culture we do not think twice about
“properly” giving people credit.

“RW” stands for Read/Write and “RO” stands for Read/Only. This at first confused me I had to read it twice. Read/Write, we base our culture not only by “reading” it but also “writing” it—or recreating what we have read. This RW keeps us, nonprofessionals, giving back and in essences creating our culture. While RO, read only, only has us focusing our culture on professional work. We lose the creativity of nonprofessionals, we lose recreation is some way. This matters to Lessig’s argument because this is what the mother in her example did. She recreated, a nonprofessional making something creative and sharing it; which in turn is creating to our culture.

I believe Lessig uses Sousa because Sousa feared RO. Only having RO would lose the nonprofessional’s creativity. It goes back to the introduction. Without armatures creating as well, the copyright laws and lawsuits might actually have a foundation to stand on. It seems to me that it is ridiculous that home videos are being looked at closely by big companies.

Sunday, March 13, 2011

blog 8

“My challenge to myself is to always try to create new world, new scenarios at almost every moment of though. The transaction I speak of take me outside of the normal cash flow of role playing because it’s multiple. Into the picture, into the frame—that’s the name of the game.” (pg. 109) I liked this quote because I think it summed up everything I believe about blending music. “try to create new world” meaning that it is new and not copying. I find this important because of simply what we have been discussing and reading about. When there is a distinct difference between something new and original and simply stealing something from an artist and calling it your work—I am not sure it is as simple to define what that difference is. I was trying to think of that myself and all I could come up with is I don’t have the skills to articulate what makes something original. What I got out of it was I think “good” new music is original and “crap” is crap and it’s not even the new creators. That’s not much of a definition but there you go. “The path to knowledge doesn’t really have an end, you just realize that the road keeps going and, everything—information, the social networks that provide structure and sustain your inquiry into whatever you’re investigating—well, each is just a stop along the way.” (pg.118). I liked that the part that stated “the road keeps going” that the idea of creating and blending will be blurred with something new again because it will continue—like the road. We should just sit and enjoy the ride and see what new awesome creations are out there for us.

I picked 5 minutes by Feat. I enjoyed how it was different by speeding up the beat and adding a back beat. It sounds so “hip-hoppy” with the silent parts and bringing it back up. It is called a remix and I think it sounds amazing with cutting and then bringing the tempo back up to fast.

Monday, March 7, 2011

blog 7

In Marguerite de Bourgoing goes into describing seven practices of transmedia and how these seven practices effects hip hop. What I got from this reading overall was that technology is a huge stepping stone for hip hop. That this idea that a blog or social network shout out could at anytime generate a new fan. This is cool because there are so many blogs out there. For example Hype machine is an online radio station that suggests new blog and cool artist all the time.

As I read the law it basically was take action and make things your own. However the law I thought was most interesting was law six. Law six was all about the ladies!

With hip hop mostly being all guys, with the help and aid of technology hip hop is seeing more and more women. Basically what I got out of this was women are starting to realize the potential power and force they have in hip hop. Bourgoing later describes this female radio star who is from LA. Saying that she is huge and those hip hop artist haven’t made it if they aren’t on her show. This was a cool concept. A mostly male dominated environment that respects a women’s opinion.

In general how could Bourgoing not be connected to what we are talking about in class. I find music and visual art to be very similar. I create artwork by using others art. For example photoshop. This is just like music, like “Girltalk”. How can this not be considered art if the artist is making a new sound, sure they are taking already made art but they are recreating it to make something unique. In the beginning of class we spoke about how copy right laws need to be mended. I still believe they do because the times are changing and laws on art are getting blurred.