5/3 Three take-aways from the section-readings

1. Based on the New literacies and social practices of digital remixing, I know remix is not only for music, it also can work in movie, writing, images and the like, especially, in movie it describe that "You go see a movie by Michael Moore [or whoever] and then you whine to your friends about how it is the best movie you have ever seen or the worst movie ever made. What you are doing is taking Michael Moore’s creativity and remixing it in your life. You are using it to … extend your own views or criticize his views. You are taking culture and practicing this art of remixing. Indeed, every single act of reading and choosing and criticizing and praising culture is in this sense remix. And it is through this general practice that cultures get made." In my opinion, people are doing remixing everyday, because when you got a new ideas or new feelings, it always by what you just saw or just read, for an artist, ideas are coming from everywhere, it may come into your mind when your are swimming or you are fishing or from your day dreaming, so I think when an artist creates a new work, it is a remix action, because the new concept is not immediately jumped into their mind, it always based on what they saw it before, or they give a new critique from something or a designer design a new technology, so that's why I think, people are doing remixing everyday.


2. THE NEW DIGITAL ARTS: FORMS, TOOLS, AND PRACTICES, nowadays, technology world provide people a new lifestyle and it also break lot of traditional things, such as in Visual Arts,Comics and Manga, Digital Photography,Dance,Digital Music,Drama,Film, Video, and YouTube,Podcasting and Digital Radio, Animation, Machinima, Creative Writing,FanFiction and Digital Poetry & Spoken Word. All these things let young people share their work, receive immediate feedback from peer groups, and gain access to experts who can help them hone their craft.I really agree with that, like the Brushes APP, this is a very successful APP, people can draw and paint everywhere and don't need to carry all of your art materials, you just open your phone and can quickly record your ideas immediately.



3.Digital Story Production, I had 1 year experiences of doing video art, and I created lot of video works during my senior year at SVA, I really like doing video art, in the beginning, it is so hard to learn about Final Cut Pro and I was always failed in this software but based on this reading article, I would suggest my students start with IMOIVE first, because it is easy to learn and it won't destroy your enthusiasm with video art.