Remix Manifesto
 

Remix Quotes

• Language arts instruction - does its connection to literary analysis present an overly narrow (or limiting in a digital age) way of  thinking about literacy? Explore via a list of quotes about originality, authenticity and creativity.

Kirby Ferguson's "Everything is a Remix" Series

• Kirby Ferguson's "Everything is a Remix Series: http://everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series/
  This fun, fascinating and entertaining series explores many key ideas in debates about remix. 

Remix Writing & Participatory Culture 

Fun Mashups

• YOUTUBE's greatest hits in 4 minutes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BudhFVnN2o0

• Kutiman's ThruYOU project takes unrelated YouTube videos of people singing and playing instruments, and edits them together into a funky, jaw dropping greater whole. Kutiman--aka Ophir Kutiel, a solo jazz/funk producer from Isreal--informed just 20 friends about the completed project earlier this year, and from there word spread quickly. When Stanford law professor and remix culture advocate Lawrence Lessig saw Kutiman's work, he simply blogged: "Watch this, and you'll understand everything and more than what I try to explain in my book." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tprMEs-zfQA

• Norwegian musician/animator, Lasse Gjertsen uses stop-motion edits to remix his own chopsticks-like single note drum and piano playing into an actual song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzqumbhfxRo&feature=player_embedded#
• WEEZER - remixes the remixers, sources the crowd. Good index of how much time you've wasted on YouTube - count how many references you can identify. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muP9eH2p2PI
• Axis of Awesome - Four Chords  and Rob Pavaronian PACHELBEL RANT 
• Stephen Colbert & Larry Lessig talk Remix. Colbert's Remix Challenge http://www.pcworld.com/article/167836-2/8_rockin_youtube_remixes.html
• PartyParty takes up the Colbert Challenge http://www.thepartyparty.com/thepartyparty/thecbump.html http://www.thepartyparty.com/thepartyparty/senatorx.html
• ThePartyParty - does political songs: http://www.thepartyparty.com/thepartyparty/sunday.html
• FRENCH EROTIC FILM, by Andrew Kepple http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/french
• SPARTA TECHNO REMIX http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvYZRskNV3w
• http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/owner/yyvX9JPcnEYQ6Xlu#/view/yyvX9JPcnEYQ6Xlu

Remix in Education and Writing

• Henry Jenkins interview (part 1 and part 2) with professors teaching students how t o analyze political advertisements by remixing and remixing and critiquing. 
• Critical Commons. Hawaii Five 0 mix (aka why academics are terrible at making viral pop culture mixes.)
• RIP: A Remix Manifesto 

Machinima 

• WORLD OF WORKCRAFThttp://www.wegame.com/watch/World_of_Workcraft/
• FILMFEST http://festival.machinima.org/wordpress/?page_id=17
• YOUTUBE CHANNEL http://www.youtube.com/user/machinima?ob=1
• http://www.wegame.com/watch/World_of_Workcraft/ WORKCRAFT
• http://smoothfewfilms.com/2008/01/18/portal-a-day-in-the-life-of-a-turret-2/ 

Fan Fiction 

• http://www.fanfiction.net/cartoon/Kim_Possible/
• http://www.fanfiction.net/cartoon/ 

Movie Trailer Remixes 

• list of all https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1AXWu-gGX6JadJEiXPLdjoFF_kK9lKqE 
• The Shining as comedy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmkVWuP_sO0 http://www.tatteredcoat.com/archives/2005/09/28/the-shining-redux/ 
• Sleepless in Seattle as Horror http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2WSW2sYKx0&feature=related http://www.tomatopatch.com/films/sleepless.htm 
• Spongeback http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfN7EYz8-es 
• The Incredibles as Horror http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdW_GxefIU4&feature=related 
• Back to the Brokeback Future http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfODSPIYwpQ 
• Terminator as romance http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfwQKapDMws&feature=related
• Willy Wonka as Horror http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1lWF-_Lpic&feature=related  
• American Pie as Horror http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2WSW2sYKx0&feature=related
• Scary Poppins http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic&feature=related
• Scary Titanic http://www.ps260.com/elfollador/Scary%20Titanic.mov
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off as drama: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vy2aJY6rq8

Pop Culture Trends & Remixing  

• The Grey Album, a mix of 'The Black Album' by rapper Jay-Z and the classic 'The White Album' by The Beatles. The mix was done by DJ Danger Mouse. The Grey Album did the rounds of the Web as a free download before being stopped.
• Googlemaps, geotagging, youtube, mashups, etc.
• Singing in the rain goes hip hop http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/25187/detail/
• Office Space and Superfriends http://www.ifilm.com/video/2665580
• Tough Crowd by ZACH GALIFIANAKIS, intercuts shots of himself with old civl war movies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0udC_D76ds
• http://ccmixter.org/ - site for sharing and use of music
  
• BUT we face politicians who aren’t always on top of the technology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cZC67wXUTs&feature=related INTERNET TUBES

  "The internet is not something you just dump something on. It's not a truck. It's a series of tubes. And if you don't understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it's going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material."

Sample 'Production'Texts

• http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/754f2fb4b5/so-you-want-to-go-to-law-school
• http://www.xtranormal.com/watch/7451115/ so you want to do a phd in the humanities? maybe political science: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idHQoCUfPZ4 
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96kC4yxxzhE&feature=related history as newscast
• interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAlmSZPT1uo 
• Daily Show on Detroit Project Ads http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-january-15-2003/auto-focus
• Wikis in plain English  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY
• http://xkcd.com/386/ 
• The Meatrix
• New York Times op-ed by Pollan and Schlosser. It discusses a bill they argue is "the best opportunity  in a generation to improve the safety of the American food supply." 
  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/opinion/29schlosser.html?_r=1&hp
  
• Also, Richard Somerville, a key figure in climate studies (also works at the Scripps Institute here in San Diego) was interviewed on KPBS today about an open letter he has written. He and 9 scientists call for a big new initiative focused on improving the way scientists communicate with the public about climate change. Info about it is here http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/24549 He writes, "We call for the science community to develop, implement, and sustain an independent initiative with a singular mandate: to actively and effectively share information about climate change risks and potential solutions with the public."
• Sample production text - Postman's book Amusing Ourselves to Death, turned into a comic http://www.prosebeforehos.com/image-of-the-day/08/24/huxley-vs-orwell-infinite-distraction-or-government-oppression/

Political Mashups

• Many political organizations are inviting user-produced political ads and mashups, sponsoring competitions, and paying to have the winners broadcast. Example - healthcare reform ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do5j4zWplUQ
• Mitt Romney mashed up with Gangam Style  
• (Silly) McCain-Obama Dance-off http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzyT9-9lUyE
• Will.I.am song,"Yes we ca,"  remixes speeches and song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fZHou18Cdk
• Clinton 1984 Youtube Ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h3G-lMZxjo "It may be the most stunning and creative attack ad yet for a 2008 presidential candidate -- one experts say could represent a watershed moment in 21st century media and political advertising. Yet the groundbreaking 74-second pitch for Democratic Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, which remixes the classic "1984" ad that introduced Apple computers to the world, is not on cable or network TV, but on the Internet. And Obama's campaign says it had absolutely nothing to do with the video that attacks one of his principal Democratic rivals, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Indeed, the ad's creator is a mystery, at least for now."  (Or was)
• "The compelling "Hillary 1984" video recently introduced on YouTube represents "a new era, a new wave of politics ... because it's not about Obama," said Peter Leyden, director of the New Politics Institute, a San Francisco-based think tank on politics and new media. "It's about the end of the broadcast era." http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/18/MNGHNONEPS1.DTL 
• CAMPAIGNS draw on popular culture - e.g. McCain's ad linking Obama to Britnet Spears and Paris Hilton. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/30/mccain-ad-links-paris-hil_n_115841.html 
• And all kinds of grassroots organizations and individuals have made their own videos that mix popular culture and politics. For  example, this is a "reply" to the Obama/Spears video: BRITNEY/MCCAIN http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cd0Kb2SnD_Q&feature=user 
• OBAMA GIRL http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=wKsoXHYICqU
• NOBAMA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MADZnsIkpdQ
• Enchanted McCain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iyDWvvkG64&feature=iv&annotation_id=event_792014
• HUCKABEE & CHUCK NORRIS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDUQW8LUMs8
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEtZlR3zp4c&feature=related Critique of McCain by Greenwald.

Baracky

• BARACKY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDunOlHSsSk
• BARACKY II http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/15/baracky-john-mccain-barac_n_119123.html

COLBERT Green Screen Challenge & Colbert Bump

• ABOUT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Colbert_Report#Green_Screen_challenges "On June 12, 2008, Stephen announced his third green screen challenge, "Stephen Colbert's Make McCain Exciting Challenge!," in which he invited viewers to replace the green screen behind John McCain during one of his speeches with something more exciting."
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G9jA-FGGd8&NR=1 VOGUE MADONNA McCain Colbert challenge
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rOF-j1L0vE&feature=related ELVIS
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4OPcUXKfk8&e SIX FLAGS
• BOLLYWOOD MIDGET http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12-PGr-8Jhs&feature=related 

RX

• Dick is a Killer  
• http://newteevee.com/2007/12/01/weekend-vid-picks-rx2008s-crashups/ Collection 
• SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXnO_FxmHes
• http://www.thepartyparty.com/thepartyparty/EndoftheWorld.html REM END of the world
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT0XxtNPVdQ&feature=related IMAGINE RX

POLITICAL uses of media - comment and critique

• Cutting together Fox news excerpts to make an argument and record  the history of how Obama was represented. Perhaps a model for the next 4 years.
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDR47EKTrCQ   
• Spin Zone and gay marriage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riGXuhwLYVI&feature=related

PROP 8 

This is one of the first state-wide political refererenda that is being fought in large part via new media. What trends do you see? Can you do a rhetorical analysis of a genre, for example the home grown ads? The pro or contra ads? Are there patterns? Which are more rhetorically effective, and why? How are professional ads versus amatuer ones different in terms of the strategies, kinds of persusasive moves, etc.?

• * Mac/PC parody ad http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9T7ux8M4Go
• * Mom, guess what I learned in school http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gE5oOuf_8A
• * Pathos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4inyujYvJoE&feature=related
• * Gingrich & appeals to authority and tradition http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73Q4V8WNF6k
• * Friendly old people http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6dBUCi32c8
• * Slippery slope http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2JOe04h1pI&feature=related

Advertisers Try to Leverage Remix

• Advertsers and Marketers are trying to leverage the emerging culture of bottom up remixes. Superbowl & Doritos: http://promotions.yahoo.com/doritos/
• CHEVY: http://www.chevycollegead.com/ 
• But this doesn't always work out CHEVY TAHOE (SCROLL DOWN) http://politicalremix.wordpress.com/page/4/
• ABC NEWS REPORT ON THIS http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O59clqhoszc
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ai-RMD39aos
• http://youtube.com/watch?v=4oNedC3j0e4&search=Chevy%20Tahoe%20SUV%20God%20humor%20commercial
• http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Chevy_Tahoe_2007_Ad

REMIX GROUPS, ORGANIZATIONS & TEXTS

• http://www.ourmedia.org/
• REMIX AMERICA http://remixamerica.org/
• ABOUT http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/fred-graver-exe.html
• Talk on Political Remix Videos http://politicalremix.wordpress.com/

Remix Tools and Resources

• KULTURA open source tools http://corp.kaltura.com/. It offers a web-based platform where many users can collaborate on the editing of one or more videos using a Flash-based editor. The created video can be embedded on your site.
• How to save a video file from Youtube etc., and how to convert to diff formats http://keepvid.com/
• http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/04/06/video_editing_publishing_and_remixing.htm
• "Eyespot, Jumpcut and soon Motionbox...the three most interesting examples of the new online video revolution taking place right in front my eyes. But they are not alone: The-N, VideoEgg, Grouper, VMix and many other ones, are all just about to introduce new features that will allow greater abilities to edit, remix, dub and post-produce any digital video footage.
• Jumpcut, http://www.jumpcut.com/
• http://www.motionbox.com/

The Wikification of Video writing (or distributed online video production?) 

• a distributed, collaborative video editing system, in which grassroots, non-technical users, could get involved in experimenting and exploring the opportunities that shared and collaborative video editing offers them. Ads, videos, movies could be distributed and home grown.