From our August/September issue, Managing Editor Jesse Walker interviews Francesca Coppa about the vidding underground, where movies, television shows, and other bits of footage are remixed and re-edited into something else entirely.
New at Reason: Jesse Walker and Francesca Coppa on the Vidding Underground
Comments to "New at Reason: Jesse Walker and Francesca Coppa on the Vidding Underground":
preston | July 18, 2008, 12:41pm | #
Here's something I cut when I was bored at work one day:http://www.youtube.com/user/timothydziegler
preston | July 18, 2008, 12:42pm | #
This would be a more accurate link:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NPgcCbUmYQ
Paul | July 18, 2008, 1:24pm | #
The love connection mashup between Spock and Kirk is almost as old as the internet. This was floating around the internet when most people were still on dialup, were using a Unix command line and using PINE as their email program.Jesse Walker | July 18, 2008, 1:29pm | #
The love connection mashup between Spock and Kirk is almost as old as the internet.Hell, it's almost as old as DARPANET. But Closer takes a different approach.
Paul | July 18, 2008, 2:27pm | #
Hell, it's almost as old as DARPANET.Hey, I was on DARPANET back in the day, and I don't remember no LoveTrek.wav... ;)
If you enjoy The Who and don't mind some tongue-in-cheek religious content, this is pretty good: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=FC2F08EC3B924167
kandy fong | July 19, 2008, 9:03pm | #
I made the Star Trek slide shows starting back in 1975 from pieces of film discarded when the original shows were edited for broadcast.I'd like to correct the information for my inspiration to the Beatles' video for "Strawberry Fields Forever". They were jumping out of trees & playing with film speed which really excited my imagination.
The local Star Trek club needed something for entertainment, so I got the idea to mount these pieces of film as slides to tell new stories using songs. Then, other fans heard about this and asked me to show them at their conventions.
The first convention was FilmCon/Equicon in 1976. I met Gene Roddenberry there and told him what I was doing. He was very supportive, because he had been trying to convince Paramount that there was still enough interest in ST to support a movie.
Even after the first move came out, he was very encouraging. He even gave me my pick of publicity photos to use in new slide shows.
mk | July 20, 2008, 11:39am | #
I let my daughter loose on the computer for a bit and she taught herself to do things like this .The thing that I love about the viddying underground is how kids have fixed the dearth of music videos by simply making their own.
rarr | July 22, 2008, 12:22am | #
Good interview. I think that Coppa really overemphasized the female character of vidding and fan culture, though. I'm not really familiar with the particular groups that she's been involved in, but instead of emphasizing the creative remix of material to make something new, she turned it into an 'us vs. them' feminist thing. That's not really all too surprising, considering that the vidding community and her involvement with it apparently began in the '70s when that sort of perception of the world was very influential, but it's pretty disappointing nonetheless."Media fans", to use her term, can be either gender, and to turn fan culture into a gender war debases it.