Is a Mule a mashup?

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Part 1:vocabular

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No more talking!

what’s a

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Two artists, George Braque and Pablo Picasso, created the word collage in the early 20th century when the collage technique started to become a distinctive part of what’s now called the Modern Art movement (approximately 1850–1950).

Dude. I totally made it up.

Don’t fall asleep...there’s more to learn on the next slide!

1881-1973

1882-1963

I made it up!

Oui, nous appréciions de fabriquer

collage!

Tuvimos gusto de hacer collage.

Bull Skull, Fruit& Pitcher1939Oil on canvas

Picasso and Braque liked making collage. They also liked to make paintings that looked like collage or had elements of collage in them (like adding real sand to a painting).

The Bowl of Grapes

1926Oil, pebbles and sand

on linen

The word collagecomes from

the French verbcoller (co-LAY)

which meansto glue.

Collage is anew whole.

The most common way to collage involves gluing scraps of stuff together onto a flat, 2-dimensional surface (2D).

fabric scraps

leaves

paper scraps

yarn & wire

like that!

like that!

Monogram / 1955Robert Rauschenberg

Collage that becomes a painting—that becomes 3D sculpture—what!? Yarp.

When making a collage,

use anything you want:

keysgrass

plastic bags

old jewelry

hairapples

broken dishes

carpet—

an Angora goat’s head—

a tire.

“Crazy Quilt” / artist unknown Collage with fabric is a quilt!

So, what’s a

?

A hybrid happens

when you combine two

or more different

things to make

something new.

Biologists, the scientists who study living things, sometimes make hybrid plants and animals. Why?

For EXAMPLE:

For EXAMPLE!

A mule is a hybrid

because

it combines the traits of

a...

(a mare / the dam)

(a jack / the sire) muleA new animal (a new whole)

…with its own distinctive

characteristics that combines the best

features of the horseand the donkey.for:

physical strength

thick winter coat

intelligence

for:strong hooves

excellent visionintelligence

collage!

collage!

mom? dad?

Then, what’s a

?—is it a hybrid

Since the 1960s,

artists have been

using parts of songs

from other artists to

make entirely new

songs.

A mashup is a song created out of pieces of two or more songs.

Mashups are also known as bootlegs, bastard pop, cutups and

powermixing.

Dr. Dre / Lyrical Gangbang(featuring Lady Of Rage and Kurupt) Example 1>

In 1992, Rap star and music producer, Dr. Dre, borrowed John Bonham’s drum intro from Led Zeppelin’s 1971

song, When the Levee Breaks, and mixed it into the

opening track on his debut album, The Chronic.

Is this a collage?A musical hybrid?

Example 2 >

“Girltalk is Hip hop hits, soft rock radio standards, party classics, grunge masterpieces, R&B singles, glossy club-shakers and rock anthems are all layered and pieced meticulously together into one non-stop celebration of pop and excess.”

aka DJ Greg Gillis

MVREMIX: Let’s talk about your album Night Ripper. On average, how many samples per track do you use?

GIRLTALK: There are so many samples that are completely unrecognizable on the album, but typically, I would say there are maybe 5 to 15 songs on average.

sleep

mash-up (collage? hybrid?)

play

A mashup is also a

web applicationthat combines data frommore than one sourceinto a

singleintegrated tool.

If you ask me,that kinda sounds

like a collage.

No one asked you, Chicken.

Retrievr

An experimental service which lets you search and explore in a selection of Flickr images by drawing a rough sketch.

Map Amazon.com

A visualization of the entire book collection from Amazon.com organized into color coded category blocks scaled by number of books.

Phreetings

A service for creating photo greeting cards using images from Flickr and user-entered text.

Logobama

A fun mashup that lets you create your own custom Barak Obama logo. Logobama sizes the logo to fit

user profile images for Facebook, MySpace, Eventful, Twitter, YouTube, Digg, LinkedIn and Flickr.

web mashup

examples!

you can buildone, too!

PocketPCs blend:

+ phone+ computer+ camera+ video camera+ calendar+ maps+ internet + GPS+ .mp3 player+ address book+ games+ desktop apps

and moreinto one device.

Hybrid cars blend fossil fuels, solar power and electricity

together to make more efficient, environmentally safe cars.

Like the mashup and collage, today’s hybrid products blend two or more features of other products to make new ones.

What’s a

?

A machine is any mechanical or

electrical device that transmits or modifies energy to perform or assist in the performance of human tasks.

Hugs! —Steve

A machine is anything that makes work

easier for me.

xo, Bill

what’s a

?

Vision is the act or power of sensing with the eyes.It also means the act or power of sensing that which will or may come to be.

Vision can meanseeing with your eyes, seeing the future—or both.

I can see where I’m going.

And I can “see” wherethis is going.

Part 2:Nicolas Lampert

No more talking!

Maybe he’s asking us to imagine the future of hybrids.

I mean, we already have them, how far are we from seeing what Nicolas sees?

What evidence does he have to make these predictions?

What do you think Nicolas Lampert is saying by calling his animal & insectmachine collages, “Hybrid Visions”?

milk cowsmicrochips

bionicsprosthetics

Animal-machine “Hybrid”

Microchip implants in pets

Using RFID (radio frequency identification) these implants contain all pet and owner

information which helps identify lost animals.

These were especially helpful matching hundreds of pets with their owners after

Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

today

hybrid vision?What about you?Should humans be microchipped?

Animal-machine “Hybrid”

bionic prosthetics

hybrid vision?

today

Claudia Mitchell, who lost her left arm at the shoulder, is fitted with the world's most advanced prosthetic arm.

Animal-machine “Hybrid”

milk cows

Tomorrow’s Hybrid Visions?

today

How do Lampert’s new creatures function?

How are they different than their parts?

Using collage, what hybrids can you invent that don’t exist yet?

Could your new hybrid be used for negative purposes?

Hint: Start by thinking, “What do we need?” As they say, necessity is the mother of invention.

CLASS! Listen up!Look closely at Nicolas Lampert’s Hybrid Visions and think about the following questions.

PS:Be nice to the sub.

Uh...

Or ... mosquitos with syringes that vaccinate when they bite?

vitamins!minerals!flu shots!

Summer School

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machines

hybrids

What do these things have in common?1.

How is a hybrid like a collage?2.

How is an animal likea machine?3.

Pop Quiz

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