Full Screen Mario
Remix Culture
source: www.fullscreenmario.com
"Full Screen Mario is a fully HTML5 remake of the original Super Mario Brothers. You can play the original levels, play through some of literally millions of possible random maps, or create your own using the level editor. This whole project is open source and free"
With this statement placed on the site, it encourages users to freely remix and create their own versions of the game.
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"FullScreenMario.com has been found in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), and on Friday, November 1st was taken down by an official DMCA complaint from Nintendo. The website allowed players to play an open source HTML5 remake of Nintendo’s 1985 Super Mario Bros, containing the original 32 levels, a random map generator, and level editor. This was in violation of Nintendo’s copyrights and trademarks.
Full Screen Mario was enjoyed by nearly 2.7 million unique visitors during almost a month of popularity, across 6 continents and dozens of languages."
Rankin: Seven Photographs that Changed Fashion
RICHARD AVEDON - DOVIMA WITH ELEPHANTS 1955
DAVID BAILEY - JEAN SHRIMPTON
CECIL BEATON - HAT BOX 1934
ERWIN BLUMENFELD - VOGUE VCOVER JANUARY 1950
HELMUT NEWTON - RUE ABRIOT FOR VOGUE 1975
HERB RITTS - FRED WITH TIRES 1934
GUY BOURDIN - UNTITLED - 1970
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"Fashion photographer Rankin recreates seven of his favourite images as he takes a journey through a brief history of the fashion photograph. By re-staging iconic images by Cecil Beaton, Erwin Blumenfeld, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts, David Bailey and Guy Bourdin, Rankin exposes the ways in which fashion photography uses fantasy and beauty to communicate something about reality."
KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON
"Keep Calm and Carry On was a motivational poster produced by the British government in 1939 several months before the beginning of the Second World War, intended to raise the morale of the British public in the aftermath of widely predicted mass air attacks on major cities"- wikipedia
KEEP CALM AND has been kept, but the CARRY ON part has been re-written or re-imagined into various ways and topics along with the crown.
Paintings Remix
Well known paintings from different eras and of various meanings are given a twist by incorporating or substituting certain parts with aspects of modern culture thus giving a whole new meaning but maintaining the familiarity of the original source. Or vice versa where new media borrows characteristics from paintings of the past.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews:
Remixed with The Big Bang Theory show and KISS band
The Last Supper:
Remixed with Lego and various game characters
Scream:
Remixed with Raving Rabbids game; American politics; scene from an Anime show; and Home Alone Film.
Iconic Remix
Iconic imagery has been continually evolving through time and appearing in various forms and different fields across time therefore raising awareness for future generations of the past and in certain cases giving the "original" creator the credit and legacy they deserve.
The Beatle's Abbey Road album cover:
Remixed with Star Wars film and a zombie massacre graphic.
Peace symbol:
Remixed with G-Dragon's 'Coup D'etat Album Cover
David Bowie's lighting make-up:
Remixed with Kate Moss's digital graphic lighting.
Cosplay
Cosplay or "Costume Play" encourages people to thoroughly COPY the looks and even the actions,scenes, or dialogue of a character from any media form, past or present.
Some people even go to the point of remixing the characters by swapping genders and making a different version for instance.
Photoshoots and plays are staged to recreate a scene from a story or a film and conventions are held where these enthusiasts congregate and dress-up.
Cosplayers:
- Girl as the "Drowning Girl" by Roy Lichtenstein
-Female versions of the Mario Bros.
-Lady as frame of Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe pop-art
Signs for the Homeless
Artist Kenji Nakayama & Christopher Hope started this project in 2012 is "an exchange project for homeless people" by re-creating attention grabbing signs from their original make-shift ones.
"The mission of signs for the homeless is to raise awareness and help for the homeless through exchanging hand painted signs, and sharing the narratives of the homeless around the world"
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