Remix Culture

Its crazy how in the Grand Rapids Lip Dub they have sooo many people in it. It's kinda inspiring to see so many people from different ages, different nationalities, and different personalities and styles all come together to make a video for this one song. That video itself is proof to me that art will never die and that if you pour your heart and soul into the things you care about most you can make great things happen. My favorite video however has to be the lizstomania brat pack mashup video of the people in tai pei. These people are all the way across the globe and that one brat pack mashup video reached them and inspired them to be creative and remake a video in their own similar yet different ways. I agree with sanchez and feel that copyright laws do limit our creativity and ability to express ourselves. I feel like the copyright laws are a bit biased or whatnot. I feel like they pick and choose what's okay and what's not and then change what they feel is okay and what isn't okay the next second. A big reason i used to go on youtube a lot was so i can watch covers of songs that people sing and remake in their own way. However, youtube started removing a lot of my favorite videos due to "copyright infringement." If anything it's not like those singers sing the songs to get paid for it. They sing because they love to and they feel that the songs they sing are a good "cultural template" (as sanchez would say). By this i mean it's like they actually feel that that song is an embodiment of different areas of their lives. However, despite copyright laws and whatnot, I also feel that the war between legal and illegal media is kind of beautiful in a sense that nothing can stop art. you can take down the videos of singers but that won't stop them from singing. Or you can take away my canvas but i'll just paint the world... that kind of thing. If anything these videos taught me that, just because something has been done once, doesn't mean it can't be done differently in a more creative way. If that were true then technology, or music, or anything would be the way it is today. Our ability to project our thoughts into the world by some sort of physical means is what art is about to me.