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Sex, Drugs and Rock and roll. These three things are often all tied up together very simply in one thing Pop-Culture. Children’s role models are often musicians or actors who have defined pop culture or who’s lives revolve heavily around sex, drugs and music. Pop culture is re-creating our lives today and we are constantly re-writing culture through remixes and fusing pieces of our past culture together. We are creating things to say in different terms giving a better example. I am teaching people or teens through comedy behind the mouths of two famous women in the 1970s and 1990s rock. Stevie Nicks and Courtney Love have both had drug struggles that affected their music and careers as artists. My hopes behind remixing these many interviews is for an educational purpose that the people that watch them find A.) The Humor Behind them and B.) Good reasons to not do drugs.

My video uses Fair Use because I am using satire with the influence of Courtney Love. Who in the music industry is/was a joke because of her drug use, along with everything that revolves around her and Kurt. As far as this being an educational video Stevie Nicks has long made her drug use public and she has made it clear she wants to encourage other people to not use drugs and not fall down the same path that she did. Also she is a symbol in the industry of fleetwood mac and is often called the “goddess of rock”. These two individuals were huge in the late 1970s and early 1990s. I grew up listening to Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Nicks and Courtney Love was a huge joke in my mind. However two individuals who had similar problems in an industry that I one day hope to enter into is a wake up for me and the other musicians out their.

In remixing these videos and throughout the course of this class we have learned about Fair Use as well as Creative Commons. Both of these are legal methods of allowing you to re-mix things and use them for teaching, researching, short summaries of an address or article, use of a parody. Essentially as long as you can argue for your creative right to remix things you can use them. And that is exactly what I am doing. I am citing Fair Use for my remix Drugs: Why Stevie says not to use them. Larry Lessig the main lawyer for the “net” and huge advocate for Fair Use and Creative Commons. Lessig has said that digital technology is going to spread and celebrate “am mature culture”, people who produce things because they love it. Also it reflects the point of how much of a value or generation places on freedom. We want to free and being free is an important essential art of cultural ecology says Lessig. This is how we as a younger generation can become introduce to new things or ideas to our current culture of pop culture.

remix argument

Sex, drugs and rock and roll. These three things are often all tied up together very simply in one thing Pop-Culture. Pop culture is re-creating our lives today and we are constanly re-writing culture through remixes and fusing pieces of our past culture together. We are creating things to say in different terms giving a better example. I am teaching people or teens through comedy behind the mouths of two famous women in the 1970s and 1990s. Stevie Nicks and Courtney Love have both had drug struggles that affected their music and careers as artists. My hopes behind remixing these many interviews is for an educational purpose that the people that watch them find A.) The Humor Behind them and B.) Good reasons to not do drugs.

In remixing these videos and throughout the course of this class we have learned about Fair Use as well as Creative Commons. Both of these are legal methods of allowing you to re-mix things and use them for teaching, researching, short summaries of an address or article, use of a paradoy. Essentially as long as you can argue for your creative right to remix things you can use them. And that is exactly what I am doing. I am citing Fair Use for my remix Sex Drugs & Rock and Roll: Courtney and Stevie.

Larry Lessig the main lawyer for the “net” and huge advocate for Fair Use and Creative Commons. Lessig has said that digital technology is going to spread and celebrate “ammature culture”, people who produce things because they love it. It is how we as a younger generation can become introduce to new things or ideas.

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I have been thinking about this remix project, and I have decided that I'm probably going to use a jazz standard that was written pre 1927, such as After You've Gone, or If i could be with you, or The Man I love. There are a ton of standards that were written pre 1927 and I intend to learn the song and do my own version of the song singing and perhaps mix it with a horn players version of the song. Im not sure yet what I'm going to do for a visual part. I also kind of want to do something related to cats.. who knows. keeping my mind open. But A jazz standard is defitinely in order :)

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My definition of originality is something new that you create. I would personally prefer if your going to call yourself a musican that you know what the different keys are and you understand what you are doing musically; beecause the people before you who actually wrote that stuff at least understood it enough to play it on an instrument.

In this film the definition of originality is similar to mine; they take old things and reinvent them in a totally different way. This is nice, but still you have to have some people in the world who know how to create without reusing someone else's melody line and chord progression together. Not to say that I won't use a similar chord progression to another musicians but there are only 12 keys in the universe so things are gonna get reused but I will change it based on my theoretical knowledge or how it sounds to my ear.

2. I do belive that creativity is limited without access to technological tools. If I didn't have sibelius on my computer I would have a harder time getting my muscial ideas down. It would take a lot longer and without the tools I am use to it would not be as good. Because although I do have the option of playing it myself... I'm not a robot there fore I am not perfect and if I hear something differently they the rhytm actually is and I write it a certain way then the way it hear it in my head, I won't realize that if i keep playing it the wrong way. Saying from experience as I have written by hand and with computers. Computers and libraries have changes the way our creative outlets work. We have more oportunities to be really creative with the internet..

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You’ve read 1984 right? I’m sure it was awhile ago for you..I recall it’s required in most high school classes. But that was about 6 years ago for me, and I needed a refreshers course on how the government could screw us over. With the “War on Terror” constantly being fought ever since 9/11, trackers in iphones and the government authorizing phone taps on innocent civilians. We need a reminder about “if you give an inch to a horse, he’ll take a mile. And when it comes to violating our privacy technology’s our biggest enemy out there. Cory Doctrow’s Little Brother reminds of us just that.

Set in the near future in San Francisco California, this novel emulates the Department of Homeland Securities actions in pretext with the technological advances that are in place with the world today. It is a fight for our right to privacy, told thru the eyes of seventeen year old Marcus aka WIn5sOn. Marcus feels his privacy has been violated following a terrorist attack on the SF Bart where he is detained and mistreated. He fights back by starting the X-net to get around the privacy violations that are happening. This is his own online network that teens all around the city start to use through a gaming system similar to Xbox.

Through the X-net they launch a technological revolution. Jamming the security censors so that the DHS catch and search the wrong people. People without warnings are held up and searched..(Its as if the TSA are on your train to work ,forcing you to do a body scan upon exit and entry.) These new laws and rules force Marcus and his friends to rebel. In the hopes of overthrowing the DHS and setting his captured friends free. Along the way he falls in love and loses close friends to the fear of the “man”. All in all it’s teen friendly with a geeky technological side that might inspire some and make others more paranoid

This is a good piece of young adult fiction for the technically savvy generation to read. It’s quick and a reminder of what can happen if we don’t pay attention. Also It’s available for free! Download the pdf from google and rethink your take on today’s over-publication of our lives. I was reminded of the rights I have as a human being living in the United States. My right to freedom, my right to privacy and my rights to read whatever I damn well please.