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Re-edited movie trailers

Here’s some entries for a little competition where movie trailers were re-edited to change the genre of the film. They are quite amazing. (originally from Snarkmarket)

The Shining (winner) – http://www.ps260.com/molly/SHINING%20FINAL.mov

West Side Story – http://www.ps260.com/Trailer/westsidestorytrailer_small.mov

Titianic – http://www.ps260.com/elfollador/Scary%20Titanic.mov

(update)

Here’s a link to the New York Times article on it.

Robert Ryang, 25, a film editor’s assistant in Manhattan, graduated from Columbia three years ago with a double major in film studies and psychology. This week, he got an eye-opening lesson in both.

Since 2002, Mr. Ryang has worked for one of the owners of P.S. 260, a commercial postproduction house, cutting commercials for the likes of Citizens Bank, Cingular and the TriBeCa Film Festival.

A few weeks back, he said, he entered a contest for editors’ assistants sponsored by the New York chapter of the Association of Independent Creative Editors. The challenge? Take any movie and cut a new trailer for it — but in an entirely different genre. Only the sound and dialogue could be modified, not the visuals, he said.

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classic films in 30 secs by bunnies

…some of your favourite films here, the stories condensed to 30 secs and all parts played by bunnies. I know, I know, and yet it sort of works…

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Idea Generation Methods

This has been doing the rounds but is a good overview of a LOT of different methods of generating new ideas and innovations.

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Sampling / George Clinton & Hank Shocklee

Great discussion of George Clinton and Hank Shocklee at the Future Of Music conference in the USA.

A sample (ha!) of the discussion –

arguing for the sampler-as-instrument, shocklee wanted to stress that a particular performance–the presumably ‘original’ materials for which one might hold a copyright–is not always what sample-based producers are looking for: “sometimes we sample because we just want the sound.” he offered an example to clinton: “you’ve done some incredible things with the moog synthesizer in terms of filters, effects [etc.] … in order for us to get those sounds today [is impossible].”

To hear the ORIGINAL conversation you can grab it from here.

The rest of the conference panels are online here. There are some great topics being discussed incluidng blogging and podcasting as well as the future of distribution.

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Copyright/OCL Digitisation General Interactive Media

Ubu Web – Open Art Archive

UbuWeb.

As they explain themselves, Ubuweb is “the definitive source for Visual, Concrete + Sound Poetry”. Check it out and be amazed, and listen and watch some of out of print music and video and text from a slew of artists whose names will be familiar but whose work is notoriously hard to get hold of.

UbuWeb has no need for money, funding or backers. Our web space is provided by an alliance of interests sympathetic to our vision. Donors with an excess of bandwidth contribute to our cause. All labour and editorial work is voluntary; no money changes hands. Totally independent from institutional support, UbuWeb is free from academic bureaucracy and its attendant infighting, which often results in compromised solutions; we have no one to please but ourselves.

UbuWeb posts much of its content without permission; we rip out-of-print LPs into sound files; we scan as many old books as we can get our hands on; we post essays as fast as we can OCR them. UbuWeb is an unlimited resource with unlimited space to fill. It is in this way that the site has grown to encompass hundreds of artists, hundreds of gigabytes of sound files, books, texts and videos.

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Language of graffiti

Fascinating label text to an exhbition I saw in Berlin on street art at Neurotitan – a kind of gallery meets edgy design store – they had great books and zines . . . . with a nice selection of breakcore records in the corner as well.

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How to blog

Here’s a great guide from Reporters Sans Frontieres.

Blogs get people excited. Or else they disturb and worry them. Some people distrust them. Others see them as the vanguard of a new information revolution. Because they allow and encourage ordinary people to speak up, they’re tremendous tools of freedom of expression.
Bloggers are often the only real journalists in countries where the mainstream media is censored or under pressure. Only they provide independent news, at the risk of displeasing the government and sometimes courting arrest.
Reporters Without Borders has produced this handbook to help them, with handy tips and technical advice on how to to remain anonymous and to get round censorship, by choosing the most suitable method for each situation. It also explains how to set up and make the most of a blog, to publicise it (getting it picked up efficiently by search-engines) and to establish its credibility through observing basic ethical and journalistic principles.

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Protected Wiki

Intersting development in Wiki security/authentication here.

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Rights Clearances & Documentaries

A touchy subject but some interesting points raised here – http://www.theconglomerate.org/2005/09/iprs_in_context.html

It will be interesting to see how the fair use exemptions unfold here in Australia and how these affect how we do things within the museum.

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BBC Creative Archive launches

Fresh open license video for use by anyone . . . . in the UK.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4225914.stm