I got to read, Dr. Mashup; or, Why Educators Should Learn to Stop Worrying and Love the Remix for class and I really liked this sentence: Elements of reuse have always been present in creative work, even though the borrowing may have been framed in terms of “tradition,” or “influence.” Artistic and scholarly works build on the work of others.” I mean I definitely agree. I don’t really know about originality I don’t really know if anything is actually original….maybe if you come up with a weird combination of words. This actually reminds me of a scene in Garden State were Natalie Portmans character is talking about originality (I watch way too many movies) and she dances in one place and she’s like no one is ever going to dance in this place doing the exact same thing you can watch it here:
Overall, I really like the idea of remixes and mashups. I’ve never really played around with mixing up things or mashing things creatively…at least not that I can recall…maybe I have. I think I like mashups more just because they’re two different things coming into one. I kind of think of remixes as movies that were made from books; an adaptation. The movie is a remix of the book. I think the problem is comparing the remix to the “original” which I don’t think is fair because its just a new work in general…I’m not sure how to explain my ideas so that might not make sense. But anyways I am all for using the web 2.0/technology for education and quite frankly it’s going to happen whether Harvard likes it or not. It might happen slowly but there’s really no doubt that one day where we can all digitally go to class (like holograms) and ask questions and then we can all Google as a whole class and search/learn things…yeah it’s going to be awesome.