Munro Ferguson’s “Drux Flux” takes the viewer through a wild four minute ride of emotions as he crechendos to the climax of this overwhelming short film. As I watched this I was constantly reminded of this song, or this artist, or this piece of history; no one takes the same ride. Here’s mine:
Mash-Ups
A kind of film, music and art that has evolved through the accessibility of technology and the internet to the general public. ”Rip!” is a documentary made recently centering on an artist by the name of Girl Talk; a man who takes popular music and composes it in a way that he makes a brand new song. Mash-ups have become a completely new way for artists to involve themselves with each other by using each other’s music but changing it by adding their own touch to the art.
A musical mash-up that is popular at this point in time (2009, statements such as these need to be time stamped with everything changing so rapidly), is “Bittersweet Dirt Off Your Shoulder”.
Animal Collective
Mash-ups leads me to the artist Animal Collective. They are a group that brings down many different exterior sounds along with their instruments to make music. Drux Flux reminded me of Animal Collective’s music but more of the videos that they play alongside the stage during their live shows. Commonly artits will have a zoomed in live video so people from a distance can see them in better detail but Animal Collective is more concerned that people hear what they are playing, so on the screens their is a colage of video being played.
The music video for “In the Flowers”:
A live show where you can see the screens playing the video mash up:
Chairman Mao and the Great Leap Forward
Of course the propoganda images that are used in Munro Ferguson’s “Drux Flux” remind me of the posters and visuals that bombarded China during the time of Chairman Mao. Communism was trying to start up and stay a float. Chairman Mao wanted to get more product in less time and so he started the Great Leap Forward, convincing thousands of people through his successful propaganda. Ferguson uses powerful images like this in “Drux Flux” which alludes to technology taking over everything that we once knew, much like the sweep of communism through China during the rule of Chairman Mao.
Sixth Sense Technology
“Drux Flux” made me think about just how much we live by technology and how sometimes I am shocked at how out of hand it might get. The latest kind of technology that is going to take me some time to come to terms with is TED’s Sixth Sense technology for phones. It is going to be the new kind of social networking so that we can keep track of people’s names, information and how we know them. Like Facebook, this new kins of social networking will probably be perfectly normal and widespread in a decade but for now I’m going to be a young old-fogey and say that this creeps me out as of yet:
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