For todays blog post I will be discussing remix in the style of modern hip hop music more specifically Nicki Minaj’s song Anaconda. Anaconda was released back in 2014 and remixes components from the infamous song by Sir Mix-A-lot Baby got back while still adding her own remix to it. As soon as the soon begins…
Copyright: A War on Ekphrasticism?
I regret heavily the fact that I waiting so long to write this blog post, because it means that what I wanted to write about was stolen by Christina Joell; and for copyright reasons, I didn’t want to remix her blog post. See what I did there? That said, Todrick Hall is awesome and I…
5: The Fails and Wins of Copyright via “Mr. West”
I love the range of examples given in the readings for what remix has come tomean and could come to mean in the future. Certainly, before this reading, I had only really thought of it in the context of music, though I had definitely associated it with copyright issues, which still seem to be a…
5. Trans media Remixes
The Walking Dead is an incredibly popular text, transcending many different generations and piquing the interests of many current television junkies. The interesting thing about The Walking Dead is that, while the TV show is arguably the most popular form of the text, it actually began as a comic book. The television show is simply an…
5: Fake Movie Trailers
Looks like I’m hopping on the YouTube train with Vivian and Taj. The other day, I saw this video in my YouTube recommendations: I’m not sure why YouTube recommended this to me, exactly. Okay, no, wait—I’m pretty sure it’s because I spend unholy amounts of time watching Miley Cyrus videos and replaying my favorite clips…
CrashCourse and Literary Remixes
Much like Hannah Feustle, I was reminded while reading Framing Remix Rhetorically of a video that I watched in one of my high school English classes—a CrashCourse video discussing Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. “We are just trying to create educational content in the hopes that it will be useful to people” John Green…
5: Remix in Art
Dustin Edwards argues that remixes should be “distinctive in purpose, delivery, design and style” (42). I noticed that the posts published so far on this topic are mostly about the remixing of stories, videos, and songs. The first time I considered copyright beyond written text, it was in an art classroom. At the start of…
The Wizard of Oz: Remixed
The remixed text that I chose to cover is Todrick Hall’s video The Wizard of Ahhs. The texts that have been sampled are: The movie The Wizard of Oz, classic music videos, and many popular pop songs – such as Blown Away by Carrie Underwood, Damaged by Danity Kane, Can’t be Tamed by Miley Cyrus and I Knew You Were Trouble by Taylor…
5: Thug Notes and Remixed Classics
As I read Framing Remix Rhetorically, I found myself thinking about a video I first watched in English class during senior year of high school—the Thug Notes summary and analysis of Hamlet. Thug Notes is a YouTube web series aimed at students. In the videos, comedian Greg Edwards, acting as the character “Sparky Sweets, Ph.D.”,…
5. Epic Fail
There have been many remixes of Pride and Prejudice, in movies and books. Kiera gives an example in her post of the popular novel Pride and Prejudice Zombies. Another remix is a contemporary young adult romance novel called Epic Fail, by Claire LaZebnik. It was published by Harper Collins in August of 2011. I was obsessed with Pride…