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Corporate Advertising Wants Your Soul

By jonathan | Published: February 28, 2012

In this remix, reminiscent of some older EBN videos, MrMondialisation borrows fragments from hundreds of corporate TV commercials to illustrate the song “We want your soul” by English DJ Adam Freeland. It’s noteworthy that MrMondialisation also manages to avoid the “blame the people” trope (which some political mashup artists fall into) by having the perspective of the remix be that of a manipulative corporate propaganda machine repeating the montra [...]

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Levi’s: Go Forth and Revolt?

By jonathan | Published: October 5, 2011

Here is a remixed ad-jamming response to Levi’s recent Go Forth “revolution chic” advertizing campaign. The mashup adds a new layer of text to re-re-contextualize the commercial’s message turning it (back) into a rallying cry for youth revolt. I say “turning it back” because the Levi’s ad, called Levi’s Legacy shamelessly co-opts Charles Bukowski’s anti-establishment [...]

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Vimeo’s Two-Faced Treatment of Remixers Suggests Ugly Corporate Plans for the Future

By ikat381 | Published: April 18, 2011

Vimeo seems to have a split personality when it comes to remixers. On the one hand, Vimeo’s community guidelines tell us that remixes are forbidden. The rules state that “you must own or hold all necessary rights (copyrights, etc.) to the videos” that you upload, and that “public domain videos are also prohibited.” This rule [...]

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I’m Not Here to Make Friends

By elisa | Published: August 11, 2010

Rich Juzwiak is a blogger for VH1 and his own pop-culture blog which means he spends an enormous amount of (well compensated) time watching and dissecting television. A couple years ago Juzwiak noticed an odd trend in competition-based reality shows, so he collected and edited the clips together. Once repeated and placed back to back, [...]

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More Honest World Economic Leaders

By jonathan | Published: March 1, 2010

Our favorite political pranksters The Yes Men have spoofed the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland with an official looking imaginary website. As part of the project they have also created these fantastic re-dubbed video interviews with global economic, government and corporate leaders where each appear to speak in brutally honest ways about real problems [...]

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Move Your Money: It’s a Wonderful Life Recontextualized

By elisa | Published: February 22, 2010

Eugene Jarecki, a documentary filmmaker who’s work includes the 2005 documentary Why We Fight, created this remix after making the connection between the current big bank bailout that fostered record profits and the story in the classic Frank Capra film It’s a Wonderful Life. In the film, community banker George Bailey helps the people of [...]

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The Red Stripe

By elisa | Published: August 28, 2009

This remix by freeyourpixels is a short yet eloquent critique of the US Marines “Red Stripe” online ad campaign. The remix uses still images and TV commercial clips for source materials and implements additive text and precise match-on-action editing techniques to unite them. The red stripe transitions the viewer from one clip to next and [...]

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Manifestoon

By jonathan | Published: December 21, 2007

This remix from 1995 by Jesse Drew is a somewhat low quality visual telling of the 1848 Communist Manifesto using footage of American cartoon characters combined with DIY narration of the text for the audio. While I’m personally not a huge fan of Karl Marx, its a creative and subversive political remix. ####

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Surplus – G8 TV Shop

By jonathan | Published: September 24, 2007

This shopping network style remix is actually part of a larger video project called Surplus from ATMO Independent film collective. ####

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Fellowship of the Ring of Free Trade

By jonathan | Published: May 30, 2007

A classic political remix, made entirely by adding only extra subtitles to re-tale the story of Lord of the Rings in the context of neo-liberal free trade. Although not quite as good, see part 2 at the link below, the sequel is called The Twin Towers and explores post-911 issues within the United States. http://www.indybay.org/uploads/2004/09/02/twintowers56k.mov [...]

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