Steinski Dallas ReMix

News meets hip hop through video... maybe

Yesterday we looked at the top ten video series on the web for the month of October.

The astonishing thing about them was that they are almost all derivatives of music videos - in one way or another.

A lot of them, in fact, were 'news' recut and mashed up - like the endless repeats of Charles Rangel speaking before his censure vote in Congress.

Weird

And interesting.

Now I have found Steinski and Coldcut.

Steinski (Steve* Stein) is a video mashup artist.  Coldcut is a British dance music duo made up of Matt Black and Jonathan Moore.

We generally talk about creating original shooting and original material, but the mash up of archival material is becoming increasingly interesting - particularly when it marries historical, political or news footage to hip hop rhythms.

The introduction of political images into video is evocative of the introduction of political material into art in the 1960s.

This Warhol print of Jackie Kennedy at Dallas sold on November 11th of his year for $1,082,500

Yes.

No kidding

So.. off to the archives!

* tip o' the hat to John Carluccio who found the error. thanks!