Eclectic Methodology and their New Toy

Video remix artists Eclectic Method cut and paste music videos, movies, current events, and video games into a danceable stream of sound and heady stretch of images. It's fun to watch them "scratch" DVD's live, and their recorded work makes for great YouTube fare.

Here's my favorite examples of their video mashup:
BOB MARLEY - (an official video mix for the Marley Family)
OBAMA VS. CLINTON: MEDIA HYPE OVERLOAD
ENTOURAGE HBO: Ari Gold says F*%K
ZEITGHOST #2 - Eclectic Method's Signature Music Video Remixtape
TONY SOPRANO's Video Remix
KILL BILL - Movie Fight Remix

But it's even more fun to play with this stuff oneself. In true DIY fashion, they've created a super-easy video remixer that lets the least experienced or most stoned computer users to play mash-up with images from their last video.

(All you do is click on the image, and then use your number keys to jam.)

It may not be the most deeply creative computer experience available, but it is kinda fun - and accessible to all. Even my 3-year-old.

Douglas Rushkoff is a guest blogger.

Winner of the Media Ecology Association's first Neil Postman award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity, Douglas Rushkoff is an author, teacher, and documentarian who focuses on the ways people, cultures, and institutions create, share, and influence each other's values. He is technology and media commentator for CNN, and has taught and lectured around the world about media, technology, culture and economics. His new book, Program or Be Programmed: Ten Commands for a Digital Age, a followup to his Frontline documentary, Digital Nation. His last book, an analysis of the corporate spectacle called Life Inc., was also made into a short, award-winning film.

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zuzu

Diplo did this with “Previously on Lost” and a bunch of other clips at that Creative Commons / Favorpill charity thing a few years ago (with Girl Talk). I really liked the idea/effect of having DJ and VJ works synced in that way. I’d guessed he used something like VDMX for that performance, though.
wolfiesma

That is a very fun toy, indeed. Something like this could really inspire a whole new generation of DJ’s. Maybe it will be the next “Dance, Dance, Revolution!” “Guitar Hero?”
dougrogers

make it stop!
devophill

I guess EBN were just ahead of their time. Here are some videos for those who don’t know.
grimc

That’s a fun little gadget. What would be really cool is if it calculated a tempo from your first dozen or so keypresses and started a rhythm track to that bpm.
Rob, Denmark

The InnerPartySystem tune is awesome. Thank you!
SecretBlogIdentity

ColdCut did similar stuff in the 90s.
Youtube has lots of their Videos.
Take a look at “Natural Rhythm” – pretty impressive for 1997 if you remember the times.
They developped a free tool called ‘VJamm’ and you could do similar things with it.