Another excellent, and as always touching video/audio remix by talented Australian resident DJ Pogo who this time weaves magic on Spielberg's A.I
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Mark Vidler of Go Home Productions. Excellent & Free, MP3 mashups on new Super Bastard EP
The ever excellent mashup talent that is Mark Vidler, yet again offers free tracks via his new release the 'Super Bastard EP'. Check out just one of the tracks and then head to his downloads page for more freebies...
Wiki leaks, the movie; 'The Outsider'
via youtube.com
Nice mash up of 'The Insider' with man of the moment, Julian Assange.
Truth is, if we get a facebook movie, bound to be a real movie one day!
Cheers to Gerry M for the find.
'Texter' by Amber Mac. An Awesome Dexter mashup.
via youtube.com
I'm recently a huge Dexter fan and also a looong time fan of AmberMac, the host of Net @ Night, Command N, TWiT broadcater and friend of Podfather Leo Laporte and much more.
Ambers a real media pop culture fan too, and so for her recent book launch she decided to make a pastich of the Dexter show's opening sequence by sending it up in her own style called 'Texter'. Find out more about the book and Amber here: http://www.ambermac.com/
Lost? Never seen Dexter? Yer homework is here:
K.O! Scott Pilgrim Vs The Matrix mashup trailer (Via his holiness @simonpegg )
via youtube.com
if this mashup is lost on you, your homework is below:
Nice Apple iPad mash up vid. 'We control everything'. Yes you do indeed!
via crunchgear.com
Ok so a little cheeky in it's subtle digs in the wording. And yeah, yeah iPad looks wonderful we know and I agree.
Still, it creeps me out you have to drink Apple Kool-aid 100% or you ain't in their club.
Mark Vidler of Go Home Productions - free mash up mp3's.
Mark Vidler has spent the best part of nine years producing Bootleg Mash-Ups, Remixes, TV Themes and more, and is pretty well known as one of the best mash up artists today.
If you haven't heard his stuff, he has a new EP out for download, and while your downloading, check http://www.gohomeproductions.co.uk/downloads.html for a ton of other excellent free mashups and videos.
I saw Inception last night at the movies, but it wasn't as cute as 'Toy Story 3: Inception'
via youtube.com
Inception is a great movie, and if you haven't seen the trailer for it, you may be a bit lost on this.
Effectively it's the audio from the Inception Trailer mashed up with the Toy Story 3 visuals from it's trailer.
Both excellent, and must see movies I say.
Tik Tok...Time for customers to do what they want with your product.
Singer Ke$ha (she must be cool cos y'know she has a dollar sign in her name) or label Sony could not have foreseen the massive reaction that this song has sparked across the web and beyond.
A little history; the single is released with it's own official video (not all that good). The super catchy pop beats, and Ke$sha's lack of ugly helped this become a huge worldwide hit. The end right? On to the next single? Nooo, before you can say 'web community - engage!' They kinda did, and off they went with mash-ups galore, and one of the best and first, was the below, rather excellent Star Wars Version:
A great interpretation, and for most of us we thought that was it, but then the amazing happened... I'm watching the Simpsons a few weeks ago and the very traditional opening sequence and theme gets replaced with this phenomenal version (The time and money alone spent here, as well as legal issues between fox and Sony are worth thinking about);
Well thats gotta be it right? And I would have banked that was it, no more heights to achieve, but this thing has wings, and also not to be outdone by George Lucas fans, the 'trekkies' get their own also excellent mash-up; (Thnx Sam C for sharing)
Now whats the big fuss about all this? Just some videos, right? T Wrong, the fact that gets me on watching all these is that after all the wails and moans about Digital Rights Management (DRM), lawsuits galore for using copyrighted tunes, and bitter complaints from the media industry about us the customer, all of a sudden it's quite okay for everyone including a major animation studio to get thier mash up on?
This is a huge change, and without a doubt (as many a web head would have told you for years) is doing Ke$ha no harm. In fact she'll soon be adding several more dollar signs to her name as this gets more and more exposure. Nearly a million views on each version I've shown above alone, never mind the worldwide viewer-ship of the Simpsons TV & DVD sales.
Yet sadly this is still an exception, and I encounter content everyday that is still locked down, restricted, region locked, and hobbled by legal nonsense. Many YouTube Music videos for example still wont allow basic embedding and sharing. (Do you want exposure? Why even have your product online if it can't be shared?)
When customers can make videos for $0.00 to record labels, ask for nothing in return, and promote your product for you? It truly is time to wake up if you manage a brand, and start losing some control to gain more, and let customers play with your product before your time is up.
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