{"id":2919,"date":"2009-03-05T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/03\/05\/what-mash-ups-are-meant-to-be-when-the-medium-is-partly-the-message\/"},"modified":"2009-03-05T18:59:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-05T18:59:00","slug":"what-mash-ups-are-meant-to-be-when-the-medium-is-partly-the-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/03\/05\/what-mash-ups-are-meant-to-be-when-the-medium-is-partly-the-message\/","title":{"rendered":"what mash-ups are meant to be, when the medium is partly the message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><b><a href=\"http:\/\/thru-you.com\/\">thru-you.com<\/a>, by Kutiman<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>Music + (Video\/Sample) x Mash-up = Sexy<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;What you are about to see is a mix of unrelated YouTube videos\/clips<br \/>\nedited together to make ThruYou. In other words, what you see is what you hear.<br \/>\nCheck out the credits for each video &#8211; you might find yourself&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\nUnbelievable. Kutiman&#8217;s ambitious project, to create an astonishing album of meta-song videos slash home-sampled music made up of a ridiculously complicated collection of cleverly layered YouTube videos, is <i>entirely successful<\/i>. It sounds half-baked, especially given every song is a different genre, like the sort of thing an undergrad would try to throw together for a media studies class because it sounded relevant on paper and they could use words like &#8220;synergy&#8221; and &#8220;interscape&#8221; in the artist statement. Instead? It&#8217;s amazing and I&#8217;m thrilled. The videos are bloody brilliant, super impressive, as unexpected as they are incredible and compelling. As someone on StumbleUpon said, &#8220;I can&#8217;t favorite this hard enough.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve actually been trying to post this for days, but the site&#8217;s been down. Hit by too many people, Kutiman&#8217;s bandwidth went bork. Now that it&#8217;s back, set aside twenty minutes, turn up your volume, turn off your power saving screen settings, and expect to have your socks <i>knocked off. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>thru-you.com, by Kutiman Music + (Video\/Sample) x Mash-up = Sexy &#8220;What you are about to see is a mix of unrelated YouTube videos\/clips edited together to make ThruYou. In other words, what you see is what you hear. Check out the credits for each video &#8211; you might find yourself&#8230;&#8221; Unbelievable. Kutiman&#8217;s ambitious project, to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/2009\/03\/05\/what-mash-ups-are-meant-to-be-when-the-medium-is-partly-the-message\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;what mash-ups are meant to be, when the medium is partly the message&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,451,149,192,778,165,22,168],"class_list":["post-2919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-art","tag-awesome","tag-interesting","tag-internet","tag-mash-up","tag-media","tag-music","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxtongue.com\/dreampepper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}