Cover Band

The video "Cover Band" is my educational video. I think doing an instructional video would be fun but I went this way today and consider it a sketch. The reason it's called "Cover Band" is because I sampled all the source off Utube, save my V.O. of the Port Huron statement (Tom Hayden). I am of techno DJ culture era and refuse to not work with popular material already out there. As a scholar, I am entitled to cite other people's written works and understand very well the process of gaining permission to use images. I think quoting is flattery that builds knowledge and that we create nothing new without doing so. I was fortunate enough to catch Creative Commons' Lawrence Lessig speaking this summer and have to say I'm really looking for creative freedom not an affordable lawyer. I still agree with DJ Spooky that it is the edit that is the art. But, while all this controversy over images continues, I'll post just a sketch of some thoughts I've been putting together.