Remix Culture

Today many people don't realize it but we are already forming a remix culture with all our different and exciting lifestyles. Remix culture evolves around music, fashion, collages, art, web applications, created media and much more which will continue to rule the decades to come.

For an example the designer John Galliano who is a fashion designer for the house of Dior mixed other tradition looks of East-Europe and other sources. He collects and mixes his own clothing fashion which he branched off from other sources when he travels.

I believe remix in fashion is something I truly find incredible. I personally enjoy fashion and it describes who you are. For John Galliano to create and take old fashion ideas and make it his own unique designs is a good example of remix. He takes his own tastes with tastes from other designers and creates his own personal designs. In a way it's unique and if you enjoy it and where his clothes than it is who you are and from that you already represent the "remix culture."

Music is everywhere now a days either from headphones to restaurants, clubs, outdoor festivals, television and radio etc. Dj's are the prime example of remixing music. I'm sure everyone who has gone to a club heard and felt a remixed song go through their body. The song by Pink Floyd - We don't need no education  CLICK HERE to the link.I've heard often and it's remixed to our style of dancing with a trance vibe beat to it. I find this amazing because it brings back old songs but in a newer version. I don't find this to be copyrighted since it has a whole new beat and meaning to our new culture.

Cars are also into the "Remix Culture" where we can modify them to the point where it can look like whole other type of car. There is a perfect television show that shows this which is called "Pimp my ride." Xzibit the main host of the show takes people that have cars that look like junk and by the end of the show it becomes one of the cars like fast and the furious. He has used technology to remix cars and uses personal taste in making the car look like something people would stare at.

There are a lot of applications out there where you can mash up videos and photos to create your own collage or "remix." There is photoshop which you can manipulate photos and do so much things like change a persons hair color or just distort the image completely. For video there is final cut pro, adobe after effects and many others to change around videos like you can take an exisiting video and just edit it in your own way. You can rearrange the order of the video, add effects or just use parts of the video and make your own. For examples of manipulated photos go to this web page.

The remix culture has expanded a lot and is continuing to grow. You're living in it right now and it's up to you to take part in it and realize what's going on with media and how it's evolving. I can't wait to see in the future how the remix culture will grow or become something really different.