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Sesame Street video mashed up with Beastie Boys's "Sure Shot"

Cory Doctorow — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 14:51:20 +0000

The Sesame Street/Beastie Boys mashup from summer 2011 was later expanded to a full 3:44 version, and the additional material is even better than the original. What a piece of work!

Sesame Street vs Beastie Boys - Sure Shot mashup (whole song) (via MeFi)

HOWTO shift any song into a major key

Cory Doctorow — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 17:33:57 +0000

If you liked the REM's Losing My Religion shifted to a major key post, check out Eliot Van Buskirk's Evolver post on recreating the effect using Celemony Melodyne, a package that sells for $99 and up.

“Losing My Religion” is in A minor. I want to make it A Major, the same way Major Keyed did.
Luckily, I didn’t have to go through and change every relevant note manually, although you can do that too. Melodyne has a scale editor, so I simply switched the whole song to A Major and exported it, which took a few clicks and fewer minutes.

How Major-Key Version of R.E.M.’s ‘Losing My Religion’ Was Made (Thanks, Eliot!)

Galactus Goya

Cory Doctorow — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 01:10:34 +0000

Marvel meets Goya in Matt Buck's "Galactus Devouring His Herald," available for pre-order for a $20 11"x7" print now.

Galactus Devouring His Herald (print) (via JWZ)

Monkey Ikea Beast Jesus

Cory Doctorow — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 02:11:17 +0000

Naturally, once a monkey in coat visited an Ikea in suburban Toronto, it was only a matter of time until the image was combined (to excellent effect) with Monkey Jesus by @Justin_Ling.

New image of #ikeamonkey. I knew I recognized him from somewhere. http://twitpic.com/bkls2s (Thanks, Christian!)

Grey Album remastered by golden-eared engineer

Cory Doctorow — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:18:56 +0000

Sound engineer John Stewart has never fallen out of love with DJ Danger Mouse's genius 2004 Grey Album, a mashup of the Beatles' White Album and Jay-Z's Black Album (and neither have I). He's got a golden ear, and over the years, the little audio infelicities in his copy have been niggling at him, so he undertook a complete, crisp, and beautiful remaster of the album. You can download the tracked-out album from MediaFire, or listen on SoundCloud.

It’s got plenty of advantages too: Revisiting The Grey Album with an expert ear gave Stewart the ability to pinpoint its audio flaws, and his professional experience gave him the agency to do something about it. Stewart says he first got the idea to remaster The Grey Album on Wednesday, Nov. 21, but it didn’t really click until that Saturday. On Sunday he set out to improve the album’s audio, tinkering with various faders in ProTools until he achieved the desired effect: “I just kind of put the sonics on steroids,” he says. Stewart knocked out the entire project that day and uploaded The Grey Album (Remastered) to SoundCloud and MediaFire on Monday. In the few passing days since releasing the updated version of The Grey Album it’s been covered by sites such as The Source and FACT Magazine, and a swarm of fans have reached out to Stewart to thank him. “A lot of people have thought that it needed to be remastered,” he says. “So it worked out.”
Stewart says he’s seen people from around the world flock to him—he said his website received about 200 hits from Hungary on Tuesday alone—though personal fame wasn’t the goal. “I wasn’t putting it out to be discovered,” Stewart says. The digital artwork for The Grey Album (Remastered) does include his name on the back cover (“I’ve always enjoyed seeing my name in credits,” he says), but that’s also part of what he considers a pragmatic move. “I wanted people to be aware it was something different,” he says. Among the subtle changes Stewart made to the artwork is a bold border, which also covers up the lower half of his name. It’s more or less a reminder that this is Danger Mouse’s original product, just with a new polish.

EMI mercilessly censored the original release, chasing down people all over the world for having the audacity to share what Danger Mouse had freely given, and which Paul McCartney and Jay-Z had endorsed. I wonder if they'll do it again?

The Story Behind The Newly Remastered Version Of 'The Grey Album' [Forbes] (via Waxy)

Death of a cyborg

Cory Doctorow — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 02:37:19 +0000

Here's Shorra's "Death of a Cyborg," and it's lovely.

(via Kadrey)

Mozilla's Popcorn Maker: a drag-and-drop tool for mashup interactive video

Cory Doctorow — Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:23:23 +0000

Brett Gaylor from Mozilla sez,

Sunday at the Mozilla Festival in London, Mozilla launched the 1.0 version of their new Popcorn Maker tool, a free web app that makes video pop with interactivity, context and the magic of the web. Popcorn Maker makes it easy to enhance, remix and share web video.
Using Popcorn Maker’s simple drag and drop interface, you can add live content to any video — photos, maps, links, social media feeds and more. All right from your browser. The result is a new way to tell stories on the web, with videos that are rich with context, full of links, and unique each time you watch them.
“Until now, video on the web has been stuck inside a little black box,” says Mozilla’s Director of Popcorn, Brett Gaylor. “Popcorn Maker changes that, making video work like the rest of the web: hackable, linkable, remixable, and connected to the world around it.”

IMDB's top 250 movies mashed into a 2.5m clip

Cory Doctorow — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 16:02:45 +0000

Jonathan Keogh's "IMDB Top 250 in 2 1/2 Minutes" is a masterful mix, and a lovely tribute to popular film. As Colin Douma notes, "How much this would have cost if they sourced legal rights to each clip?" Not to mention the music. Watch it now before it's censored forever!

IMDB Top 250 in 2 1/2 Minutes

Infinite Gangnam Style: realtime, beat-matched remix that goes on forever

Cory Doctorow — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 23:43:58 +0000

With "Infinite Gangnam Style," Paul Lamere provides an infinite, intelligent remix of Psy's viral classic, using a beat-analyzer to continually add new choruses to the song.

What is this? - Infinite Gangnam Style is a web app that dynamically generates an ever changing and never ending version of the song 'Gangnam Style' by Psy.
It never stops? - That's right. It will play forever.
How does it work? - We use the Echo Nest analyzer to break the song into beats. We play the song beat by beat, but at every beat there's a chance that we will jump to a different part of song that happens to sound very similar to the current beat. For beat similarity we look at pitch, timbre, loudness, duration and the position of the beat within a bar.

You'll need a recent Chrome or Safari to watch it.

Infinite Gangnam Style

Infinite Gangnam Style - Frequently Asked Questions

(via Waxy)

Hip-hop sea-shanty

Cory Doctorow — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 21:49:08 +0000

David Minnick is a genius. That is all.

A remix of the Snoop Dogg/Kid Cudi song "That Tree". The idea for this sort of remix was born when I became aware of the great similarities between the lyrical themes of rap and the lyrical themes of pirate music (Self-aggrandizement, the quest for money and treasure, romantic view of violence, sexism etc..) In spite of this "serious" description, this remix was really just a hilarious idea that I somehow managed to finish. Enjoy!

I Can't Forget the Sea (Snoop Dogg remix)

Moe Pope mashed with Big D and the Kids Table

Cory Doctorow — Wed, 06 Jun 2012 21:27:46 +0000

Mashup virtuoso djBC sez, "Here's a new mashup album- and it's legal. I merged the concious raps of Boston MC Moe Pope with the soulful 'Fluent In Stroll' record from Big D and the Kids Table. The result is probably one of my strongest efforts- an organic sounding record that is convincingly live sounding, as if Moe walked into the recording sessions at Camp Street. With the guest talents of Edo G, Dana Colley (formerly of Morphine), Maestro 1-Ton (Agari Crew), The Doped-Up Dollies, Project Move, and Christopher Talken. Thank you. I am extremely proud of this effort and I hope to get it in some ear holes."

Holy smokes this is good music.

dj BC presents FLUENT IN MOE (Thanks, djBC!)

Taxi Driver goes to Disneyland

Cory Doctorow — Thu, 10 May 2012 02:12:26 +0000

Byran Boyce takes Robert Di Niro to Disneyland in "Walt Disney's Taxi Driver":

According to Boyce this is a trailer for Walt Disney’s re-imagineering of Martin Scorsese’s classic film “Taxi Driver”. It follows Mickey Mouse-obsessed Travis Bickle as he looks for love in a rapidly transforming New York City.

New Mashup: Walt Disney’s Taxi Driver

Walking Dead title sequence as a 1980s sitcom

Cory Doctorow — Wed, 09 May 2012 15:20:23 +0000

MovieWeb's alternate title sequence for The Walking Dead is set to the theme from Growing Pains and expertly edited/titled to give it the air of a 1980s sitcom, an effect that it achieves in spades. I would watch this sitcom: "The departure of Frank Darabont has seen The Walking Dead go in a whole new direction. This new intro for season 2.5 seems to shine a light on the character dynamics of this ragtag group of zombie survivors and the impending daddy issues that Laurie's pregnancy is sure to bring."

The Walking Dead (2010 - Present): Season 2 Alternate Title Sequence (via Neatorama)

Vintage photo-portraits remade as superheroes

Cory Doctorow — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 01:00:01 +0000

Foto Marvellini, a Milanese art workshop, posted a set of vintage portraits remade as contemporary superheroes called "Le Biciclette."

Le Biciclette - Milano (via The Mary Sue)

Mitt Romney raps Eminem

Cory Doctorow — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:06:29 +0000

Hugh Atkin's "Will The Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up" is a virtuoso feat of mashuperry, turning the Republican candidate into a politicized Eminem impersonator.

Will The Real Mitt Romney Please Stand Up (feat. Eminem) (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

What's Opera, Doc? the mashup

Cory Doctorow — Mon, 12 Mar 2012 15:11:23 +0000

djBC, the archduke of mashup, has created a video to accompany his 2005 "wemix" of the classic Chuck Jones 1957 Bugs Bunny cartoon "What's Opera, Doc?"

Whats Opera, Doc? (dj BC Wemix) (Thanks, djBC!)

Toy Shining: Toy Story meets The Shining

Cory Doctorow — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:00:06 +0000

Illustrator Kyle Lambert set out to create a storyboard for a mashup of Toy Story and The Shining, calling the result Toy Shining.

Earlier this year I began following Lee Unkrich, the director of Toy Story 3) on Twitter (@leeunkrich). As well as his journey to the Oscars with Toy Story 3, Lee often tweets about his passion for Stanley Kubrick and the movie The Shining which inspired him to pursue a career in filmmaking. Having seen both The Shining and Toy Story 3 for the first time recently myself, I thought it would be cool idea to mash the two movies together as a fun side project.
It started off with a few notes on a post-it describing how the two movies could be combined and quickly grew into a 25 panel storyboard. Once I had sketched each composition I set about painting the panels with my iPad using the Brushes app. The project took around 2 months to complete in my spare time from idea to the finished storyboard.
Coincidently, towards the end of the project I was invited to visit the Pixar Studio for the day by one of their artists Don Shank and thought it would be a great opportunity to deliver a printed version of the project to Lee in person.

Kyle Lambert | Gallery | Toy Shining (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

BBC News mashup finds parallel universe between lines

Rob Beschizza — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:37:14 +0000

Cassetteboy vs. The News: "There's been a shocked response around the world to video footage appearing to show U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urinating on Boris Johnson." [YouTube via Metafilter]

Fine art reimagined with science fiction themes

Cory Doctorow — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:00:55 +0000

Tor.com's Irene Gallo gathers together an absolutely fantastic gallery of science fiction artwork that quotes famous works of fine art. I'm all over John Mattos's Mos Eisley reimagined as Picasso's Three Musicians.

Art History Through Sci Fi-Colored Glasses

EFF and Everything is a Remix want you to ask the Copyright Office for the right to remix

Cory Doctorow — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:15:14 +0000

Hughillustration sez, "Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, video artists who break the encryption on a DVD or sample online steaming videos could face legal threats - even if the video they create is considered fair use. We think that's nuts. Kirby Ferguson, creator of Everything is a Remix, is standing with the Electronic Frontier Foundation in fighting for the right to create remix videos. Please sign Kirby's letter below and stand up for the rights of video artists."

Dear Ms. Pallante,
From high school students creating videos for classroom assignments to activists and journalists sampling videos for political commentary, remix videos offer creative ways to educate, empower, entertain, and politicize people around the world.
But this creative expression is threatened by legal uncertainty. Three years go, the Copyright Office agreed to create an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act so that creators could break DVD encryption to sample video clips. But that exemption is about to expire, opening up the possibility of legal threats against video artists like us.
Please defend our right to remix videos and grant the exemptions proposed. Renew the exemption that lets video artists break encryption on DVDs in order to use video clips in primarily noncommercial videos. And please go one step further and extend those rights to cover Internet videos, like paid downloads and streaming videos not available on DVD. The Internet is fast becoming the major medium for video, and video often appears on Internet services long before -- or instead of -- a DVD release...

Rip. Mix. Make. (Thanks, Hughillustration!)

SOPA/PIPA mashup: how much Hollywood money did your lawmaker take? Name and shame with fellow voters

Cory Doctorow — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 14:24:01 +0000

With PIPA off the legislative calendar and SOPA paused, this tool may seem a bit redundant, but it's a nice piece of advocacy work. Creator Jonathan Vanasco sez, "I tossed together a mashup over a few hours while sick on the couch. It uses the data from Propublica and SunlightLabs to create very-shareable profile pages for every Senator and Representative that were geared for 'viral': - language is designed to motivate people to read and share - leverages all the Facebook and Twitter tools to increase ranking - text and graphics are optimized for Facebook sharing, educating users about the issue and how much lobbyist money may be influencing things - automatic twitter suggestions for tweets with likely-to-share language ie: - challenge a senator to give back $x in media contributions - notes if a senator has received more media contributions than 50% of other senators - asks a senator how much money is needed for them to represent people, not lobbyists."

Hi. My name is Dianne Feinstein. (Thanks, Jonathan!)

The Thing, starring Pingu

Cory Doctorow — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:00:08 +0000

Lee Hardcastle's claymation remake of John Carpenter's The Thing starring the popular children's character Pingu is a work of sheer, demented genius, and well worth the two minutes of your life needed to appreciate it.

Pingu's THE THING (via JWZ)

Dr Seuss meets the Joker

Cory Doctorow — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:00:14 +0000

DrFaustusAu, the DeviantArt member who created the fabulous Cthulhu and Ghostbusters Dr Seuss mashups, is back with this great Joker-by-Seuss mashup.

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Arkham Asylum (via Super Punch)

Shufflin' grandpa -- country dance meets electronic music

Cory Doctorow — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:30:43 +0000

Jason Kottke rounds up a series of YouTube clips of "old styles of dancing set to contemporary music" including this Shufflin' Grandpa doing fast-footed country dancing with a ~~dubstep~~ contemporary electronic soundtrack.

Shufflin' grandpa

Santastic Six: killer mashups for the holidays

Cory Doctorow — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 23:53:07 +0000

djBC has released the sixth Santastic collection, a set of holiday mashups from some of the greatest sonic plunderers in the world (earlier efforts). As always, the Santastic mixes are fantastic. If you want my favorites, try Divide and Kreate's Santatage (MP3) (mashing Otis Redding vs The Beastie Boys vs Run DMC); ATOM's Wonderland Walker (MP3) (mashing Peggy Lee vs Fats Domino vs Bjork); and djBC's Mashing Christmas (MP3) (mashing Danny Elfman vs The Supremes vs Jimmy Stewart).

Santastic Six: 100% Holiday Mashups and Remixes (Thanks, djBC!)

If Ghostbusters was a Dr Seuss book

Cory Doctorow — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 15:24:50 +0000

DrFaustusAU, whom you'll remember from this autumn's Dr Seuss meets Cthulhu mashup, is back at the drawing table, with There Goes A Gozerian, Ghostbuster: a reimagining of Ghostbusters as a Dr Seuss book.

There Goes A Gozerian, Ghostbuster (via Super Punch)

Ho, ho, ho, well if it isn't fat stinking billygoat Billyboy?

Cory Doctorow — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 01:00:38 +0000

The Casual Pepper-Spraying Cop has found his niche: he's a droog, and he's up for a bit of the old ultra-aerosol.

Droogs (Thanks, Fipi Lele!)

Every Beatles song ever, all played at once: All Together Now

Cory Doctorow — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:54:05 +0000

All Together Now - Everything the Beatles ever did. by ramjac

Ramjac, a British DJ, has produced a mashup of the whole Beatles catalogue. Ramjac's mix, "All Together Now," layers every single Beatles song atop one another, in reverse order of length, so that for the first few seconds, all you hear is "Revolution 9" (the longest song in the songbook), then "Hey Jude" atop it, and "She's So Heavy," and then more and more, until it crashes all together at the last note, with 226 tracks all colliding.

It's more conceptually interesting than musically enjoyable. Hank Handy's 40-track Beatles mashup is a better choice if that's what you're after.

ramjac's sounds on SoundCloud (via DVICE)

Inglourious Animals: Fantastic Mr Fox/Inglorious Basterds mashup

Cory Doctorow — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:08:39 +0000

"Inglourious Animals" is a rather clever and well-done mashup of footage from Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr Fox and Quentin Tarantino's Inglorious Basterds, mostly using the former's footage and the latter's soundtrack.

Inglourious Animals trailer (via Kottke)

Wall Street Spirit

Rob Beschizza — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 16:33:45 +0000

Musician Dan Bull (YouTube) created this rap mix of Radiohead's Street Spirit to honor the protests in New York and elsewhere. "I made the song because I believe the monetary system needs to be reviewed, and the peaceful nature of the protests inspired me to get involved," he writes. "Being in the UK I couldn't attend in person, so I thought I'd attend musically instead."