Digital Remixes!

In class on Thursday, I joined a new group of classmates to create digital remixes. Our first task was to brainstorm and come up with ideas for the "subjects" of our digital remixes. We immediately started thinking of things that are controversial in the news, such as illegal immigration, George W. Bush's presidency, and Stephen Colbert from The Colbert Report. I liked the subjects we chose because it wasn't just one person coming up with all three ideas; each person in the group contributed to the thought-process and ultimate vote for which ideas would be transformed digitally into new images.

It is neat to see how a serious subject, or even a funny subject, can so quickly be intertwined with a serious issue or a funny issue, completely changing the meaning behind the newly constructed image. I think our digitally remixed images faithfully fulfilled the criteria that Professor H presented to our class on Thursday: the creation of just-for-fun hoaxes that express solidarity, support and in some cases, political views.