Game of Thrones was given an elaborate homage this week on The Simpsons, with the long running animated sitcom replacing its usual opening titles with this nod to the hit HBO series.
In 2008 the series honored Mad Men with a similar treatment.
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The chaos of televisions best comedy.
The Futon Critic said it pretty well when they summised that “the fact that a show can continue to be this ambitious is just plain staggering”.
I’m talking about “Remedial Chaos Theory“, an episode of Community from last October that borrows structurally from films such as Rashomon, Run Lola Run and Sliding Doors.
You can watch the whole episode above in just 2:46 overlapping seconds.. but its probably best to watch the original first.
Read more the shows creator Dan Harmon here in a great piece from Wired Magazine.
The 473 clips that remade the remake.. The Emmy award winning Star Wars Uncut.
The Emmy Award winning Star Wars Uncut project has released what could be the most ambitious film remake ever. Beginning in 2009, the project split the film into 473 scenes, each 15 seconds long and crowdsourced the reshoot to groups all over the world, with interpretations ranging from cartoon to stop motion, and live action.
The 27 year old behind the collaborative effort isn’t done however, with plans to move onto remaking a different movie next..
Raiders of the Lost Remix: A shot by shot comparison.
Encompassing over five decades of cinematic history, this meticulously crafted recreation of the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark is yet another fine example of highlighting the homages and influences that infuse all great works of art.
Created over two years by Swiss-based artist Stuart Pittman this 13 minute remix spent over a year online before finally finding a mass audience earlier this month via the likes of BoingBoing.
Pittman sums it up best saying:
Directors watch movies, singers listen to songs, and painters look at paintings. Artists have influences, that’s how they learn!
A similar piece deconstructing The Matrix can be seen here, as well as a treasure trove from film and television history on the blog Homages, Ripoffs and Coincidences.
PressPausePlay and Rip! Two films about remix culture available to watch online.
Featuring interviews from Moby, Sean Parker, Seth Godin, Robyn and more PressPausePlay has just been released in full on Vimeo. The documentary looks at the changes in technology and the potential of democratised culture.
Also, Rip: A Remix Manifesto from 2009 is available to watch below, and follows remix culture icon Girl Talk through the new media landscape we’re all creating around us.
An epic movie montage of every minute in the day.. “The Clock” by Christian Marclay.
It’s been described as “the most complex thing made by any artist so far this century”.
The Clock by Christian Marclay is a piece of installation art – a 24 hour long montage of thousands of film and television scenes that all reference an exact minute of the day.
Synchronised with the actual time that it is being displayed, The Clock serves the function of actually telling you the correct time. Similar in concept to the 100 Movies, 100 Numbers film, this epic undertaking dwarfs it in scope, ambition and function.
For those of us in Australia, it will be on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney from March 29th this year.
Get a taste of this extraordinary art installation in the embedded videos.
Unmixing a remix: Pulp Fiction in Chronological Order.
Filled to the brim with homages and references, Pulp Fiction known for it nonlinear narrative gets its own remix: as a story now told in chronological order.
“Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” by Dr. Seuss takes a trip to Burning Man.
The last book published before his death in 1990, “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” by Dr. Seuss has been transplanted to the plains of the Black Rock Desert in Nevada and the annual Burning Man festival.
Conceived by freelance director Teddy Saunders, this story of life’s ups and downs is beautiful recreated on a backdrop as epic as the poem itself.
