Tag: creative

Creative minds, ’00 style

Why have I been sharing mashup videos this morning? We’re about to close the decade (either in a few hours of in 12 months depending on how you calculate stuff) and the rise of digital media along with the widening of creative outputs have placed copyright issues and content protection as one of the major elements of the decade. I figured the way today’s minds process creative output is by taking existing works and combining them to produce something that while not entirely new, appeals to a large audience and evokes particular emotions.

The skills that are required to create such mashups are not simplistic. The artists (yes, I’m calling them mashup artists) have to understand the audience, the material, and how to not only put them together but make them seamless as to remove the doubt on the subject of the parody or the reference. Mashups are not simple copy and paste. You need to have the ability to spot similar or identical elements to combine the content and make them look or feel professional. Anyone can create a good movie but it takes skills and experience to create a really good movie. he same principles apply here. See the video below to understand was put into creating the Magnum P.I + Star Wars mashup.

Copyrights? Of course, there are copyright issues but most mashups were made with no commercial intent. These works were created because they have a high appreciation of the original contents that they use.
They want to create something that is cool for them and their peers. While the contents may not be new, the end result is often something fresh. In fact, mashups promote original content because without which, there would be no mashups to create. Those who watch mashup videos or listen to mashup songs become exposed to the original works that are used.

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If Twitter was there in 1945..

@sutansjahrir: Just heard the news at BBC. Japan surrenders themselves to Alliances. W00t!
@wikana: @sutansjahrir – SRSLY?
@darwis: @sutansjahrir – Yea. Heard it too @ BBC. Kewl.
@sutansjahrir: @wikana – Yep. Tune your radio to BBC.
@wikana: Just heard the news at BBC. T3H NEWS. W00T!
@darwis: That atomic bomb should be helluva gigantic huge.
@chaerulsaleh: @wikana @sutansjahrir – Yep. Just now.
@chaerulsaleh: @sutansjahrir @wikana @darwis – Check your DM. Got something to tell ya.
@darwis: @chaerulsaleh – Net is suck here. Will check the DM later.
@sutansjahrir: @chaerulsaleh – Have read your DM. Anybody following @soekarno here?
@wikana: @sutansjahrir – Got @hatta at my friends list. Will do?
@darwis: Okay. Back online with much better connection 😀
@maeda: Waiting for news from Tokyo
@hatta: Whoa. The news is surprising.
@darwis: @sutansjahrir @chaerulsaleh @wikana – Whoa whoa guys. Should we talk to @maeda first?
@darwis: The Net is pretty suck here. Maybe because of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Meh.
@wikana: Welcoming @soekarno. Hello good sir 🙂
@maeda: @darwis – I heard my name being mentioned. What happened? *popped in*
@soekarno: “To be or not to be. That is the question.”
@soekarno: @wikana – Hello to you too 🙂
@wikana: @soekarno – Could you check your DM sir? Some urgent stuffs here.
@soekarno: @wikana – Haz replied your DM. Thanks.
@darwis: @maeda – We might need some of your help.
@maeda: @darwis – Anytime dude.
@wikana: @soekarno – Pray for me, good sir. Was that your final answer?
@wikana: Some stuffs need to be done. Fast.
@soekarno: @wikana – Yes.
@hatta: The press is going crazy.
@maeda: Why I feel such a bad feeling today?
@hatta: @maeda – Hi there. You okay?
@chaerulsaleh: Swift as the wind.
@maeda: @hatta – Yes 🙂 Thanks for the concern.
@maeda: Offline. Tons of things to do.
@sutansjahrir: @maeda – Bye *waves*
@sutansjahrir: “Do or do not, there is no try.”
@hatta: I think bad feeling is contagious. Somehow I feel uneasy too 😐
@hatta: Off now. Need to take rest.
@soekarno: Sleepy. Off now.
@sutansjahrir: @chaerulsaleh @wikana @darwis – Check your DM again guys.
@chaerulsaleh: @sutansjahrir – Have read it. OK.
@wikana: Final decision. Tonight.
@darwis: @sutansjahrir – Right-o.
@soekarno: Online. On my way to Rengasdengklok.
@hatta: Going to Rengasdengklok. Good grief, are these guys never sleep? *yawns*
@soekarno: Wee-hours trip with kids. Wow-zie.
@wikana: Rengasdengklok. Hot debate.
@sutansjahrir: Mr. Ahmad Subarjo is here!
@darwis: I think I just saw flying tables…
@wikana: @darwis – Nobody is throwing tables.
@darwis: @wikana – How did you know? 😛
@wikana: @darwis – Because I sit right beside you. That’s why. And I see the whole thing.
@chaerulsaleh: @wikana @darwis – Good grief you guys.
@sutansjahrir: @wikana @darwis @chaerulsaleh – We sit in the same table yet WE TWEET WITH EACH OTHER?
@soekarno: @sutansjahrir @wikana @darwis @chaerulsaleh – Hi guys 😀
@hatta: Sleepy…
@hatta: The meeting is adjourned. Now we are wondering where we could continue the meeting.
@wikana: Anybody got house that we could go barge in for a meeting? Anybody?
@maeda: Just woke up. The whole gank was in front of me.
@darwis: @maeda – Terribly sorry sir. We need your house for a meeting.
@maeda: Apparently this is the meaning of ‘bad feeling’ that I got this morning 😐
@sutansjahrir: Apparently @maeda haz nice house.
@hatta: Another person coming in. Mr. Nishimura.
@soekarno: Good grief. Another heated up debate.
@maeda: I hate for being in the middle 😐
@hatta: … And I thought being independent is a right for humankind…
@maeda: *yawns*
@soekarno: Would somebody please hand me some bricks to throw?
@hatta: Typing the stuffs down. With @soekarno, @sayutimelik and some other guys.
@soekarno: The text is being typed by @sayutimelik and I need some good coffee now. Thanks.
@hatta: I’m signing history right now.
@soekarno: Completely amazed. Wow. Just wow.
@maeda: Oh. it finished already. Goodie. Breakfast, anyone?
@soekarno: @maeda – Hey, thank you very much 🙂
@hatta: So. Ikada? Naaah, didn’t think so 😐
@soekarno: … And now my house is going to be a part of history.
@soekarno: Need to ask my wife to find the flag that she made several days ago. @fatmawati, have you woke up yet?
@hatta: OTW to @soekarno’s house.
@soekarno: A little bit lunatic at my house 😐
@soekarno: Going giddy about reading a thing that would change this nation’s history forever.
@hatta: @soekarno – Hey, you can do it.
@soekarno: Feeling instant pride deep inside. I will never get tired of it. “Proklamasi…”
@hatta: You know that feeling of pride and awesomeness? Yeah, I’m on it now.
@wikana: @soekarno – WHOAH! CONGRATULATIONS!
@darwis: @soekarno @hatta – GOOD WORK! CONGRATS!
@chaerulsaleh: FREEDOM! FREEDOM FOR ALL!
@sutansjahrir: Just screamed out loud “FREEDOM!” outside. As Archimedes said it, “EUREKA!”
@soekarno: Still humming ‘Indonesia Raya’
Thanks to Wikipedia for the information 🙂