tracking shot remix

More amateur advertising

Check out this post from the MIT Advertising Lab blog about consumers using a Chevy "roll your own" ad trial to create anti-commercials pushing their own agendas.  Just what you would expect: the unexpected.

To follow that up, here's an article in USA Today about amateur created advertising.  Some of the projects they cover include such name brands as:

• Current TV
• Converse shoes
• Ban deoderant
• MasterCard

More to come?

sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ!

"sCrAmBlEd?HaCkZ! is a Realtime-Mind-Music-Video-Re-De-Construction-Machine."

What if you could chop up your favorite songs into tiny little bits and then play it back by beatboxing (making sounds with your mouth) into a mic?

So that is what Sven König's installation/performance project does. You can read a good overview on engadget, check out his explanatory video on youtube and read about his intellectual property monkeywrenching on his own site popmodernism.

Mash-ups showcase

JD Lasica (of ourmedia.org fame, among many other things) has a post on his blog about  some mash-ups he and others produced.  The idea was to take a given piece of music and create a video mash-up, in his words "a collage of images and video drawn from the public domain and from original footage."  These mash-ups were created for a SXSW event sponsored by Outhink and IODA (the Independent Online Distribution Alliance).

As JD says:

If you're a band, what could be better than having vloggers create free music videos for you? It's a hell of a lot cheaper — and often more interesting — than the six-figure productions charged by professional music video directors.

This, I predict, is going to become a huge phenomenon in the years ahead: musicians and video artisans working in tandem.

Check out their mash-ups....

Viacom video mashup tool

The lost remote blog has an entry describing a viacom video mashup tool on the web. 

They provide a small set of clips, music, transitions, stills, and graphics.  In their flash editor is a timeline where you can mix these assets to make a movie. 

With the right Skittles codes you can unlock more assets.

As if you needed an excuse to eat more Skittles!

Machinima Fan Film Fest

Check out this machinima film festival, hosted by Xfire. 

Entries are due no later than May 31, must be 10 minutes long or less, and should have something to do with dating.

Here's a list of the games you are to use:

• Electronic Arts: Burnout Revenge, SimCity 4, SimCity 4 Rush Hour Expansion Pack, SSX On Tour, The Sims 2 (PC), The Sims 2 (Console), The Sims 2 Holiday Edition, The Sims 2 Nightlife Expansion Pack, The Sims 2 Open for Business, The Sims 2 University Expansion Pack, The Urbz: Sims in the City
• Mythic Entertainment: Dark Age of Camelot
• NCsoft: City of Heroes, City of Villains
• Ubisoft: Splinter Cell, Prince of Persia, and Jack Carver from Far Cry (Xbox version, not PC)
• Vivendi Universal Games: F.E.A.R.

You can learn more about machinima from one of the judges in this contest, machima.com.

Dating in Splinter Cell?

A Flash video for your weather!

The Unseen Video has a flash app that will generate a video based on the local weather.  Cool!  Very cool in fact.  You should check it out.

What makes a good V-CAM (viewer created advertisement)?

The Current TV studio blog has an article about what makes a good Viewer-Created Advertisement (V-CAM in their lingo).  According to this article, some important facets of V-CAMs are: not limited to the :30 spot, authentic points of view, and the need for brand managers to listen to their audience.

Cookie Remix

I will admit right at the beginning here that I saw the link to this recipe in the web clips feed of my gmail account... but dang, it looks so good. Plus the author calls it a remix, which is a great example of how that word has innervated our culture. To a certain extent, I'm pretty tired of the jargonizing effect the internet has had on our culture. People have been adapting ideas through tweaking for a really long time, taking something and changing it for their own purposes. I'm not about to write a philosophical treatise on language and culture of ideas here... just wanted to link to the cookies.

There's also a recipe for Thin Mints that I will definitely be trying out this week. I'll let you know how it goes.

Alice's 3 minute film contest

Well, too bad, but the entry deadline for this 3-5 minute film festival was yesterday.  But, you can still check out the winners on April 8 at Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco.

Record label that invites you to remix its songs

A post from Lost Remote reports on a Peter Gabriel record label that invites people to download loops and remix artist's songs.  Cool!