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DIY DJ

I’ve stumbled upon Mac DJAY, easy to use DJ software for Mac OSX. It is very cool indeed as it imports all your music from iTunes and lets you record your own mixes.

The software easy to use for amateurs (like me) and it has features for the pro’s too. I sense a few house parties brewing!

Tags: Apple, apple dj software, audio software, dj, djing, mac, mixing, music software, remix, remix culture

BBC moves to embrace remix culture

I discovered today that the BBC are behind a project called Masher. Masher essentially enables people to splice and mash their own video’s with content from the BBC Motion gallery.

This is the second move the BBC have made to recognise how people want to view and use content.

The launch of the iPlayer was monumental because it enabled people to watch BBC content when and wherever they liked. The BBC recognised that they couldn’t beat pirate culture so instead they launched a service, which enabled people to watch their content on demand at their own pace.

The launch of masher I believe symbolises the BBC’s recognition of remix culture. There are so many people on youtube using illegally ripped video content to make their own remixed and mashed videos, like piracy, remixing is a movement that the BBC or any other broadcaster will not be able to stop. The BBC offering their archive for this project symbolises a degree of acceptance towards the remix movement.

I am sure this will be the first of many UK broadcaster’s stepping up to accept the movement and I hope in time they make the embed codes for the mashed videos available and allow users to download mashed videos and distribute them however they like.

Let’s watch, wait and see what happens next.

Tags: bbc masher, masher, pirate culture, remix culture, Video Content, VJ

Hieronymus Bosch

The piece above was inspired by his work, and it was compiled with a wait for it…a 3.2ghz quad core intel Power Mac with 32gigs of RAM! Yes that’s 32 large slabs of random accessing.

Reminds me of the beast machines air traffic controllers use, madness!

What’s even more insane is that the artists Simmons and Burke managed to crash their machine several times a day, I mean dudes….come on! Could you have anymore more RAM?

Tech specs aside I love this piece because it’s a digital collage, which epitomises remix culture. If you guys have read The Pirates Dilemma by Matt Mason you’ll know all about Remix culture and its importance.

Truly amazing works and I get lost in them for hours. The collage above is one of four by Simmons and Burke, more about the rest of the exhibition can found on its official website.

Tags: digital collage, Hieronymus Bosch, knight gallery, remix culture, Simmons and Burke