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WB rips anti-piracy tech
Since we talk about remix culture so much on this blog, I felt the need to point out Gizmodo’s article, “IRONY: Warner Bros. Sued for Pirating Anti-Pirating Technology.” Really. I think this is the stuff that would make Brett Gaylor, the director of RiP: A Remix Manifesto, giddy in its hilarity. I think we all [...]
Mashup Culture Runs into Gaming Culture
By this point, I think most of us are familiar with the mashup. The most notable mashups that come up usually involve music or film. i.e. Girl Talk: i.e. Kate’s last post about Buffy and Twilight or, one of my favorites, “40 Inspirational Speeches in 2 Minutes:” But! Check this out. Now, people are mashing [...]
Buffy the Twilight Slayer
I’m still working on that digital media syllabus, so… playing around on YouTube. (Work is hard.) And there I stumbled upon this little gem from artist-activist Jonathan McIntosh: It made me so happy, for a couple of reasons: As a longtime Buffy fan (not to mention feminist), I can’t get on board with the Twilight [...]
Video Essays!
Nothing I like more than a little analysis in a hard candy coating and, well, I feel like sharing. Is He Bona Fide? Is He Bona Fide? from Daniel Anderson on Vimeo. “This video essay explores the theme of sincerity in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou?. The essay is composed in video form, [...]
meant to be?
As I push and shove (or, rather, swing and duck) my way through my dissertation, I’ve been thinking lately about the topic I once promised myself I’d write my dissertation on: the rhetoric of fate in American culture. You see, there was a time in my life about six or seven years ago that I [...]
