Recent activity – ETEC 540: Text Technologies

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+	Text = Remix	adam-sheard	8 years ago	6	8 years ago
+	Piecing Together Literacy	christopher-clarke	8 years ago	2	8 years ago
+	Emoji talk	kathleen-cox	8 years ago	1	8 years ago

As a follow up to my Rip/Mix/Feed project where I remixed my video into a cool rap song, I wanted to further explore what relationship remixing has to text in as far as we have discussed it throughout this course. I came to the conclusion that text essentially exists as remixing! I examine remixes of music and video in this short film to illustrate my argument. What do you all think? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25Uhw7LWtkM
JamieTooze	Hi Adam, Great project! I think my jaw literally dropped watching clips your clips on Star Wars remixing scenes form 7 Samurai and Flash Gordon. Then I got to thinking about the ancient remixes. Isn't that our foundation of our oral traditions? Although our means of communication have evolved to extraordinary levels, perhaps we humans are still just hardwired for remixes? Great work Adam. thanks for sharing. Jamie
marcia kondo	Very entertaining video! I am a big fan of remixed music from the 70s and find it interesting how so much hip hop and rap music today is actually just remixed disco hits and hits from various other genres. Very creative idea. Marcia
michael cebuliak	Hey Adam, great remix! But, I sure hope you are not going to try and take credit for this all by yourself. You know I think, it’s an absolute farce to think that any work can be credited to any individual. As you noted, to say that George Lucas created Star Wars is not entirely accurate as he just remixed it. Yeah, some remixes are a little more obvious than others but we as individuals within civilization have always been networked and stealing data, despite the recent assumption that networking and data sharing are a new digital enterprise. Pretty much any play of Shakespeare’s is borrowed from the work of another, and even Shakespeare’s work is borrowed by contemporary producers: Taming of the Shrew is My Fair Lady; Romeo and Juliette is Westside Story and Hamlet is The Lion King. Good God even The Flinstones borrowed from The Honeymooners and the former was watched by highly impressionable kids that later evolved into kleptomaniacs quite honestly! I think such deception is essentially a product of liberalism and capitalism. The sacrosanct notion of the individual within liberalism, as a separate entity, autonomous and distinct from others, is a capitalist construct to insure that intellectual property, just like private property, remains in the control of only certain individuals rather than within the entire culture that it is produced. And we are so possessive of our private property that we put fences around even our intellectual property and tell other’s not to trespass or use this property without our express permission or payment of some royalty, which is so hypocritical because there was never any payment sent to the author, or all authors of a culture, upon which the huge foundation of one’s private intellectual property is built. The thing is I think this private intellectual property belongs to a living language, and its temporary reflection of recorded text, and not to any one individual. And, it’s ridiculous to think that one can stop the progression of ideas, by patents and copyrights, and disallow others to build upon what everyone built up. While, I do agree there has to be some acknowledgement, and reward, for building higher upon a civilisation’s work—or another musicians for that matter—I can’t help but believe that to have one’s work stolen is a great compliment. And, if one is so brash as to steal a work and claim it as their own, I can’t help but believe that the person from whom the stolen work is said to “originate” is far worse claiming the work as their own, in the first place, and further feigning injustice when it too is stolen. I think it’s a profound change in perspective, and the progressive outlook of a civilization, when it realizes language doesn’t serve an individual so much as a civilization serves a language. Individuals die, in their service to language, and the language lives on as long as there is someone to carry it forth. It rules supremely over us as it absolutely governs what it is that we as a civilization can and cannot do. Can we steal from each other and produce greater works? Yes, and here is the language—in song, in plays, engineering, philosophy, etc-- to prove it, as has always been done! …but, should I feel the same way if I developed a cure for cancer? How about if I wrote a hit song? Again, why shouldn’t I, and wouldn’t we all be doing a lot better if everyone else did as well? Crazy to believe that there are other currencies in this world other than money and all of them are important but maybe we mistakenly prioritize some over others.
adam sheard	Haha~ I totally agree Jamie! I was quite surprised when I found out just how many things are remixed. We just might be the creatures of remix in our world! It's a little bit disconcerting that so many of our creations are not as "creative" as we might believe them to be, but alas that seems to be the nature of being human.
adam sheard	Thank you so much Marcia! It is really astounding to see how many things are just remixed from older things. Even a great deal of the songs of the 70s had a lot of influence from music and literature that came before! It's mind-boggling to think about where all of this may have begun!
adam sheard	Thank you for such a wonderfully inspiring reply, Michael! I agree with you that it is quite ignorant for us to claim absolute ownership on things that we remixed from other people's works and hypocritical to deny others to remix from our own creations. As you said, language is basically the essence of remixing and pretty much everything that language is the product of ideas being designed and redesigned by people over time. As a YouTuber, I feel like right now we are going in a good direction with copyright laws which allow for recreation and remixing. Mind you, the laws and rules aren't perfect yet, but I think that they are making good progress. One of my own new channels, CinemaSynopses, depends on us having the right to remix the work of others!

Hi Everyone,

Here is a link to my Rip.Mix.Feed assignment: https://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=3a1fe01b721f

I decided to go with www.jigsawplanet.com . Initially I wanted to use some sort of large interconnected diagram showing the evolution of communication, but I found this very challenging to find while using Creative Commons 0 searches. In the end, I decided on an image that was still relevant to the class, though I won't describe it here, as that would defeat the purpose of the puzzle and rob you of the joy of discovery as you complete it.

I liked the idea of a puzzle. It felt like a good representation of how I felt throughout this course. Finding the outside framework, picking up pieces I didn't understand at first and didn't know how they fit together, and slowly finding out how they were all interconnected to create a larger image/perspective.

I liked this app as it provided a bit of fun and entertainment. It was extremely straight forward to use, it is very easy to share, and it has the option for the user to change the difficulty. I added the source information using Paint. I initially tried Fun Photo Box, but I'm currently in a small port in Alaska and the internet connection didn't allow the program to function properly.

Chris

scott pike

5:49!! Great site, and a great metaphor/ activity for my classes, Chris. I am going to use it this year. Thanks! Scott

Carri-Ann Scott

That was great fun! I think that I could definitely use that site in some of my workshops this year. Thank you for sharing!

Hi everyone,

Please check out my multimedia project here: Emoji talk.

I created a Wix site to explore certain questions like "How do emojis modify reading and writing processes?" and "Are they contributing to the decline of literacy?"

I tried to make the tone light and fun, suggesting that perhaps emojis do affect the way we communicate!

Cathy Miyagi

I love this Katie! (Was hoping to add a heart emoji here in my comment but I don't know if we can...) Who would've thought...a world emoji day?! I agree with you that emojis are not indicative of a decline in literacy. Yes, they should only be used in informal settings. I always say you can't "LOL" your way to corporate management 😉