Rip It!

Hey Team,

sorry about the tardiness in posts, has been hectic in Base land with plenty of action on site where Base2 will take up residence in a couple of short weeks. Lots of new gear has been turning up and we are expecting to see K2 Skis, K2 snowboards and Ride Snowboards all arrive tomorrow, yeah. I must say i'm pretty excited to see the new K2 boards, i'm so ready to go snowboarding.
But that's not what i'm here to tell you about, i'm going to fill you in on an excellent documentary i watched online over the weekend. It's called Rip: A Remix Manifesto and it's a look at the world of copyright and how it affects music film and television. I found it to be very revealing, it points out some very serious flaws with our current copyright laws and shows how indebted we are to all the popular culture that has come before us to create what we have today. I find it extrodinary that multinational companies can copyright music or images that they or those that produced the work copied from older works themselves. The great thing about this film though is how it is being distributed, it is in selected cinema's but is also available to watch online at http://www.opensourcecinema.org/ chapter by chapter, you are also encouraged to download the film yourself and remix it, adding your own images or music, then to upload your work to http://www.opensourcecinema.org/ so it can then be cut back up together to make a new version 2.0 of Rip: A Remix Manifesto
The Documentary centers around one of my favourite artists Girltalk. Girltalk is a mashup artist, someone who takes small parts of songs and tweaks and layers them creating new music in the process. It would have been good to see some other mash up artisits like 2ManyDj's get in there, but this is mainly a US based film, though there is a great section about Baile Funk in Brazil which is awesome.
The first chapter is posted here, i recommend checking out the whole thing.

peace and good beats