Ephective Ephemera
Admission: I did not attend either SXSW event in 2009 (and had I been so-inclined, would likely have opted for the latter).
Like you, I did have access via Twitter and the blogosphere to literally of thousands of real-time updates, most of which were both redundant and lacking in sense of time and place (due largely [...]
In light of my post yesterday ‘More Beats and Pieces‘ on context and remix culture, I thought I’d post up two videos for comparison sake.
The first, from 1997, is by Coldcut and Hexstatic, for the Timber single. It incorporates video and sound collage from the logging industry:
The second, from 2009, is from the much-talked-about Thru [...]
Faris Yakob, who is becoming to remix posts what Andy Weatherall is to remixes, made some interesting points last week in his aptly-titled Beats and Pieces:1
We make stuff out of other things – poems out of words, paintings out of colors, metaphors out of disparate ideas, complex ideas out of simple ones, music out of [...]