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Eduardo Navas: Sampling Culture

Eduardo Navas’ updated Regressive and Reflexive Mashups in Sampling Culture provides a sprawling (in a good way) map of remix theory and practice.

The megamix has its roots in the sampling practice of disco and hip hop. While disco in large part experimented with the Extended Remix, hip hop experimented with the Selective and Reflexive Remixes. Grandmaster Flash may be credited with having experimented in 1981 with an early form of the megamix when he recorded “The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel,”[25] which is essentially an extended mix performed on a set of turntables with the help of music studio production. The recording included songs by The Sugarhill Gang, The Furious Five, Queen, Blondie and Chic.

[via Remix Theory]

LEGO Mindstorms-Based Drum Machine

[via createdigitalmusic.com]

Zizek: Reality of the Virtual

[via Sang Bleu]

Singing Fingers

[via Designboom]

1977 Philip K. Dick Interview

[via Ballaradian Twitter stream]

Time as Space in Comics

Yves Bigerel takes on the thorny issue of comics as new media. Simultaneously very simple and very interesting. Rather than attempting to absorb all of the media available in new media (that way lies animation and cartoons), Bigerel channels and extends McCloud to create what amounts to a user-controlled slideshow. Surprisingly, it works.

[via HTLit]

Cut Up

Christian Verdun’s cut-up collage of Lincoln’s assassination is composed, Burroughs-fashion, of text from magazines. You’ll want to check the Flash version, which allows for zooming, in order to read some of the text. Too cool.

See this page for some background, links to several news articles, and print ordering info.

Toy Story + The Wire

(NSFW.)

[via kottke.org]

Tarkovsky’s Polaroids

Tarkovsky apparently liked shooting Polaroid. More links at Boing Boing.

[via Boing Boing]

xkcd Color Survey Results

xkcd posts the results of their massive (222,500 user session) color survey. The survey asked for some basic demographic info (gender, whether they were color blind, monitor temp if known, etc.) then showed users colors one swatch at a time and asked them to name the color. The results are shown in aggregate above and broken down by gender (people act like clichés of their gender, apparently) and by spelling ability (a mind is a terrible thing to waste). It’s a long report but worth reading.