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“Let go of the past and go for the future. Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined.” (Henry David Thoreau). For my proposal, I talked about all of the different ways that people dream. Click here to see my proposal page.
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Miley Cryus. Probably the most talked about person nowadays. Everything she does seems to be a controversial act that people feel the need to comment or make fun of. One big example of this is her video for "Wrecking Ball." According to Cyrus: 
But most people did not see the deeper meaning and saw it as Miley just being naked and licking a bunch of stuff. There are countless parodies making fun of this video, which is where the intertextuality comes in.
So basically, even though Miley Cyrus has deeper meaning for the things she does, people just disregard that and interpret her actions into something worse than her intentions.
In the videos "Everything is a Remix" by Kirby Ferguson, he talks about how basically each new idea (from music, movies, etc.) stems from older ideas. This goes along with the idea of Intertextuality which according to the Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines as "The complex interrelationship between a text and other texts taken as basic to the creation or interpretation of text." He starts off the first part of the video by giving the definition of a remix which is "To combine or edit existing materials to produce something new." The part that stuck out most to me in all of the parts of the video was part 2 where Ferguson talks mostly about movies. He tells us that "of the ten highest grossing films per year from the past ten years, 74 out of 100 movies were either sequels, or remakes of earlier films or adaptations of comic books, video games, and so on." So basically, 75% of films made are not original ideas, but just new ways of showing already existing ideas. I don't really see this as a surprising thing because if you think about it, everything comes from pre-exisiting things. That's how life is. Someone comes up with an idea, then people take that idea and change/expand it to create something newer and better. I think it would be almost impossible to come up with an 100% original idea nowadays. I decided to look up movies that have been remade and I found a list of the 50 best remakes of movies: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/guides/best_remakes_50_years_50_movies/ I think with all of these new technologies that are coming into the world, movies are still going to just be remade into crazier and better versions of the previous ones. 
Most of you know this girl as the "Overly Attached Girlfriend." Well her real name is Laina and for a contest to win Justin Bieber concert tickets, she made her own lyrics and put them to the music for the song "Boyfriend" by Bieb (Thats my nickname for him). The video went viral and now, there are countless amounts of memes with this (creepy) face in the middle of them.
There are even combinations of other viral memes with this one:
She obviously didn't make all of these memes. Her face was just screenshot from her video and remixed into all of these crazy memes.
After watching the four parts to "Everything's a Remix" by Kirby Furguson, I feel like I have so much knowledge in the subject of remixes. So many things in our world are just rip offs of older ideas. What I consider a rip off is someone taking someone's material, whether it is from music, movies, books, etc., and making it seem their own, without letting it be known that the material was previously used. From what I see, this is a very common thing to do nowadays. The genre I see things being most used in is music. There are countless remixes to songs out there. One thing that I never really noticed was the beats of songs, because to me, that is such a small part of the song that it is unnoticeable until someone points it out. One example of this is the song "Best Song Ever" by One direction and "Baba O'Riley" by The Who.
As you can see, they both have the same melody. The only reason I knew this is because if this video: ow in my opinion, I do not find this to be a big deal. I think it's pretty much impossible to come up with anything that is 100% original nowadays, but as long is the rightful credit is given to the owner, it's all good.
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