tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14248191349943589882011-11-28T01:04:01.742Ztextual mashups/out of hacking comes fresh visionmashed prophethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08574248644568659358noreply@blogger.comBlogger231100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1424819134994358988.post-18369354090442399502009-02-04T20:24:00.003Z2009-02-04T21:29:43.826Z

The arrest of "New York's Banksy", Poster Boy, by the NYPD for his razor-assisted anti-consumerist subway poster art can be seen as a subtle play on the theme of authority chasing down those who violate copyright for artistic purpose. What interests me about Poster Boy's work is the fact that he uses a razor, that analog tool for splicing audio tape, on digitally produced images. By doing so,

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Now Ishmael read that an angel of the Lord had said to Philip, "Go to the desert road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza." The looming of the spirit moved within Ishmael, that having no money or much to interest him on shore, he should quietly take to a ship and quit pausing before coffin warehouses.So Ishmael started out, leaving the city of old Manhatto for New Bedford. On arriving at the

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I now have a name for my literary mashups: gargoyles. David Barnett writes in a Guardian opinion piece entitled "When Shakespeare met Seuss: mashing up literature" the following: Being a bookish-type, undoubtedly of frail disposition and chary of crowds and vulgarity, you might not be aware of the concept of mash-ups.Generally, in the strange and frightening world of young people, this involves

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mashed sauces Youtube video entitled, "Video explains the world's most important 6-sec drum loop"

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Nehemiah & Blake wrote:"While books will remain a medium of their own, and continue to hold to themselves the mystique they have so generously earned, perhaps it is time for us to throw our many many books, the making of which there is no ending, into the particle generator that is post-modernity and send them spinning round until they smash into each other. When they do, let us then be there to

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Once upon a time, Iesus began to preach, "Goode men, for Godes luve, repent, leave off youre sinne, for the kingdome of heauen is at hand, hevenriche is now here. But woe vnto you, religious hypocrites; Yee shut vp the kingdom of heauen against robberes and pillagers and quellers of men's lives, against lechers and fornicators and traders who ply men with lies, yet yee neither goe in your selues,

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Radiohead has decided to "open source" the data to the House of Cards video, allowing anyone, theoretically at least, to mash-up the data, and, once they've messed around with it, use the data to produce their own interpretation. To mash the words of James Frost with mine, "In a weird way [the mash-up] is a direct reflection of where we are in society. Everything is data." If everything is data,

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On the Guardian books blog, Andrew Gallix ponders Spam Lit and its literary forebears. The 3AM buzzwords blog has reposted the article entitling it Scriptures from the future, a phrase used by spam poet, Ben Myers. Gallix's article is a fascinating piece, not least because of the rich hyperlinks he has left for the reader to follow. Follow them is what I did. As I did, one word, "random" and

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O the cuckoo she's a pretty birdLike lanes of Queen Anne's lace.She singeth as she fliesAt summer's moving pace.Beneath the high-builded cloudsLike hedges snowlike strewn,She bringeth good tidingsOf young-leafed June.She telleth no liesFor to keep her voice clear:"Long,long the deathOf the summer drawing near."Yet the more she singeth cuckooBriefer is the breathFor the chestnut flowersTill their

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At last weekend's BBC-sponsored Mashed 08 (a festival held at Alexandra Palance that allows hackers to mash data streams for various ends), Team Bob came up with a mash-up in the spirit of the mashed_prophet that mixed live subtitles from BBC News with Bob Dylan's video for Subterranean Homesick Blues "in a little spoof called 'Subterranean Homesick News'". BBC Dylan - News 24 Revisited (Full

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How is the cut-up form of experimental writing different from the mash-up form? The embed below links to a clip from a documentary on William Burrough's cut-up technique.The view of William Burroughs was that if the universe was pre-recorded, then the only thing that was not pre-recorded was the pre-recording itself. With his cut-ups, what he was attempting to do was to "tamper with the

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An analysis of our enormously productive economy in the age of mechanical reproduction demands that we make consumption our way of life. This leads us to an all-important insight: mechanical reproduction emancipates the work of converting the buying and use of goods from a parasitical dependence on authentic artistic production into reproducible ritual. To an ever greater degree, the criterion of

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I lingered round the sleepers in that quiet earth, under that benign sky leaning on me. Me, the one upright among all horizontals; the one still able to listen to the soft wind breathing through the grass, beating it distractedly against the moths fluttering along the heath and harebells. Now, in this narrow valley closing to darkness like a black purse, I wondered how anyone could ever imagine

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According to Will Self, via the 3AM blog via a BBC magazine article, "the computer user does their thinking on the screen, and the non-computer user is compelled, because he or she has to retype a whole text, to do a lot more thinking in the head." This comment was made in relation to writers continuing to use typewriters. In fact the BBC story headline reads "Why typewriters beat computers".

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Shirley Dent, on the Guardian Books blog reports of a blogosphere spat between Bonney and Swift in which she notes that Swift,taking his cue from Madonna, "strikes a pose" in postmodernist style (is it me or does Madonna seem omnipresent in discussions about postmodernism?), arguing for "a genuinely radical postmodern poetics". This involves breaking formal barriers, requisitioning pop-culture

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At a certain village in La Mancha, the ants and termites of Prince Kropotkin not long ago renounced one of those old-fashioned Hobbesian gentlemen, whom I shall not name, but who wrote, 'Never be without a lance upon a rack, an old target, a lean horse, and a greyhound, for man is all the better for war.'mashed saucesHere the opening sentence of Don Quixote (the Motteux translation) mashes with

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Online library gives readers access to 1.5 million books from PhysOrg.com The Million Book Project, an international venture led by Carnegie Mellon University in the United States, Zhejiang University in China, the Indian Institute of Science in India and the Library at Alexandria in Egypt, has completed the digitization of more than 1.5 million books, which are now available online.[...]mashed

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Picture yourself in a Greyhound in PittsburghWith tangerine trees and marmalade skiesMichigan seems like a dream on a river:A boat and a girl with kaleidoscope eyes.She calls you, and you answer quite slowly, “The man in the gabardine suit is a spy.”She says, "Be careful, his bow tie is really a camera."There are cellophane flowers of yellow and green,Towering over your head.But when you look for

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The tongue is a fire that we didn't start:A world of evil among the body's parts;A world of fire always burningEver since the world's been turning.The tongue corrupts the whole of a personSets the whole course of life on fire.E'en though the fire's one we didn't light,Yet it's a fire we're trying to fight.But in vain, for it was set by hellThe tongues of which no man can quell. mashed saucesIs

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Call me Ishmael, wild donkey of a man. In a selfish maelstrom was I flung headlong across the aethereal sky; from hyperion to satyr insatiate I fell. mashed saucesThe first sentence mashes Melville's wonderful opening line to Moby Dick, with the Angel's prophecy to Hagar, Abraham's slave about her son, Ishmael.The second sentence follows as a non sequitur: a mash of the famous line from

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To those who find themselves religiouswho seek the religion that is pure and faultlessSit down next to me, and listen:Those who feel the breath of sadnessto look on orphans and widows in their distress,Sit down next to me, for I am them.Those who find they're touched by madnessin trying to keep from being polluted by this world,Sit down next to me, for I am clean.Those who find themselves

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A painter has won the Turner Prize for the gradual process of layering one colour over another. She says, “The forms don't stand for anything else, they don't symbolise anything or describe anything outside the painting. They represent themselves.” Now they represent £25,000. She's living in London painting abstracts always the same size. No source material. Just from scratch she says. I work

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Things fall apart; the centre cannot holdLo! thy dread Empire, CHAOS! Is restor'd;Thy hand, great Anarch! Lets the curtain fall Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.The darkness drops again; but now I knowLight dies before thy uncreating word.The ceremony of innocence is drownedAnd Universal Darkness buries All.mashed saucesW.B. Yeats, "The Second Coming".Alexander Pope, "The Dunciad, Book IV".

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