15 Minutes of editing fame
By way of Boing Boing and Cory Doctorow, a truly fascinating YouTube video: a recut of Mary Poppins as a horror movie. Seriously. You really have to see this.
The advent of cheap 'n easy digital media equipment has made it all too easy to record videos, sound and pictures as has been mentioned here and elsewhere, but let's not forget the increased ability to edit. As long as IP lawyers don't make it too difficult, editing can create new art from old content and 15 years of hiphop sampling shows.
I believe that new art forms based on digital sampling and editing are our future (or at least for the next several decades). Andy Warhol anticipated this in 2D, using conventional techniques, but now the technology exists for us to get the whole banana.
Posted on December 06, 2006
