Monday, March 28, 2011
Creativity
Take the time to sift through the video's posted on YouTube and you'll notice that there are millions of videos created by millions of different people. This is new media fostering creativity. These video's are expressions of people's minds, thoughts, and emotions. Without the creation of YouTube, or some other video sharing website, these video's may never have been posted and these people who never have gotten the chance to be creative. But creating/sharing videos is not the only way new media fosters creativity. Take a look at the article "1+1+1=1" by Sasha Frere-Jones. This article discusses the how digital music (new media) is being manipulated by people to create "mash-ups" of songs. DJ Reset created the song "Frontin' on Debra," a mix between Jay-Z and Pharrell Williams' song Frontin' with Beck's song Debra. The artist used software to edit, cut, and paste the songs together. An unproductive, not creative, and dull person would not have thought up something like this.
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Youtube is a great way to foster creativity. Alot of young musical artisits have begun using the site to gain publicity and build up a fan base.
ReplyDeleteThose mashups sound difficult to produce though. I wonder how much equipment one would need to make a decent mashup of other songs. I may be wrong, it could be done quite simply but the article seemed to go through a more professional and tedious process.
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