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kottke.org posts about remix

65,000 photocopies of 300 different films made into a 14-minute short

65,000 photocopies of 300 different films made into a 14-minute short. Quite clever.


“The problem with mash-ups is that once

“The problem with mash-ups is that once you get past both ‘oh, that’s unexpected’ and ‘that must have been difficult’, what you’re left with is a dj with really fucking terrible taste in music”. IMO, few mash-ups have gone beyond the novelty stage.


One of the songs on Sleater-Kinney’s new

One of the songs on Sleater-Kinney’s new album was inspired by a New Yorker article about Golden Gate Bridge suicides.


Big fan of the Airwolf TV show

Big fan of the Airwolf TV show digitally edits himself into an episode, replacing Jan-Michael Vincent in the lead role.


Advancing scientific research means that chimeric animals

Advancing scientific research means that chimeric animals are on the way. “In the case of human cells’ invading the germ line, the chimeric animals might then carry human eggs and sperm, and in mating could therefore generate a fertilized human egg. Hardly anyone would desire to be conceived by a pair of mice.”


Audio from the Who Owns Culture? talk

Audio from the Who Owns Culture? talk by Lessig, Tweedy, and Johnson now online. Streaming audio or mp3.


Ask and ye shall receive: Google Maps

Ask and ye shall receive: Google Maps with the NYC subway stops on it. A little flaky in Safari, but works well in Firefox.


Nine Inch Nails is offering a GarageBand

Nine Inch Nails is offering a GarageBand file with the complete mix of a forthcoming song. Can’t use the remixes commerically, but still pretty cool.