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 was created using After Effects. It’s a brilliant, yet simple, visual motif which echos the brutal imperialist history of the US Marines. The Scarlet Stripe, said to commemorate the bloodshed by US Marine officers during the 1846 Battle of Chapultepec in Mexico, is more often referred to as the Blood Stripe.

Category: tv commercial
Topic Tags: capitalism, corporations, government, iraq, marines, military, terrorism, violence, war

My latest Identity Correction remix, this time taking aim at the Chevron corporation and their new rather Orwellian slogan “Human Energy”. Created by combining and re-cutting movie footage, TV commercials and the audio from Chevron’s latest PR blitz. The video focuses on the corporate search for profits through control of global oil supplies and the connection with aggressive American foreign policy.

You can also see it on my blip.tv channel:
http://blip.tv/file/1001293

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Category: tv commercial
Topic Tags: advertising, chevron, identity correction, iraq, oil, war

A very disturbing remix from the video artist trio Wreck and Salvage. While not all of the collective’s work is political, this one definitely is. Titled “Club Iraq” because it combines rapper 50 Cent’s famous song “In Da Club” with audio of Bush’s invasion speech coupled with home videos taken by US soldiers in Iraq and posted on YouTube. The juxtaposition of the audio tracks and the armature footage US solders goofing off in a war zone, acting like immature boys and saying horrifically insensitive things to and about the Iraq population makes for a sickening, depressing yet poignant Political Remix Video. These troubling unflattering home videos and the thousands like them posted online are likely part of the reason the Military banned myspace and YouTube from its servers in 2007

I offer this warning before viewing, the clips of military personal use explicit language, imitate sexual acts with each other and will most likely make you feel at least slightly ill.

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Category: music video
Topic Tags: bush, iraq, military

One of many Star Wars themed Political Remix Videos, this one by Chris Campbell and uses the Star Wars movies combined with Fox News footage of the US invasion of Iraq and George Bush’s “State of the Union” speech to create a “Sate of the Empire”.

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Category: short film
Topic Tags: bush, iraq, star wars, war

A remix from Minitrue.com of George Bush’s infamous “Victory in Iraq” aircraft carrier landing speech that also mixes in a bit of footage and imperial music from the Star Wars movies.

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Category: news segment
Topic Tags: bush, government, iraq, war

Here are three of the many famous EBN videos remixes from the 1990s. EBN (Emergency Broadcast Network) was a groups of video artists and musicians that operated from 1991 to 1999. This youtube playlist has a collection of 16 EBN remixes. Also see more at Joshual Pearson’s website. Make sure to check out this video of some of their more performance based work including the personal golf bag rocket launcher.

Rock this Base:

We will Rock you:

Another version of We Will Rock you:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUDR9RckfEU

Syncopated Ordinance Demonstration #1

Category: music video
Topic Tags: EBN, government, iraq, war

MAR/03/09 – The second of these two classic fair-use remixes has been removed from YouTube leaving only a message saying “this video has been removed due to terms of use violation.” The other remix is still online as of the date of this note.

Two short clips from the 19min remix film Iraq Campaign 1991. The devastating remix critiques of the media/industrial complex from 1992, by San Francisco-based video artist Phil Patiris.

REMOVED from YOUTUBE

Category: tv commercial
Topic Tags: corporations, GE, iraq, News, REMOVED, war