Tag: Arts
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Idiosyncratic end of year post
Inspired by the likes of CultureBully’s Top 10 mashups of 2010 and Bootie’s Best of 2010 collections, and the fact I should have sent in my top 5 but was too busy organising the Milan-Venice trip, here are my thoughts about 2010, and best mashups of the year. With a lot less Van Halen 😉…
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The Gay Bechdel Test
A post at Boing Boing informed me of the Bechdel test, named after Alison Bechdel and her character Mo who detailed the rule in her comic strip ‘Dykes to Watch Out For’. The rule is: It has to have at least two women in it Who talk to each other About something besides a man…
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Is this just desire or the truth? Reborn Identity joins The Videotones
I have to share this – Reborn Identity always does amazing mashup videos, but I have to stop myself wheeling out the usual cliches of ‘taken it to another level’ and ‘blows me away’ and ‘something else’ but he has excelled himself for The Videotones project, this time taking The Kleptones ‘Untired’ from the Downtime…
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The Videotones are here – Welcome Back by The Kleptones (Instamatic video mashup)
New video mash from me – this time part of what is a collaborative project currently known as The Videotones (also on YouTube), mashing up the whole of the excellent ‘Uptime / Downtime’ by The Kleptones – there will be more mashup by myself and many other talented video mashup and VJ people appearing over…
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Incredible Eclectic Method live video
Watch and learn all your DVD-player bothering VJs – THIS is how it is done (1st one NSFW audio): Eclectic Method have been doing this for years like Hexstatic, and are kings of the live mashup video mix, IMO. And one of the best of the cutup crowd – cos they do far more than…
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Disassociated Press
What ridiculousness is this – the Associated Press are going after Shephard Fairey for compensation and/or credit for the original image used for the famous Obama ‘Hope’ poster? A poster that bears only some relation to the fairly generic original (look at the eyes or the tie for example), did not profit from – all…