I think I posted this last year, too, but it still makes me inexplicably happy.
Ryan King and Dan Hess’s conflation of visual footage from the Charles Schulz/Bill Melendez A Charlie Brown Christmas et al and Outkast’s energized tune “Hey Ya” — it’s the best of its ilk I’ve enjoyed since Integrated Media student Todd Graham patched together Apocalypse Now sound bytes and footage with the Disney Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day et al while a student at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto back in 1987.
It’s all highly illegal, but fucking brilliant stuff.
Speaking of Apocalypse Pooh:
I saw a great mashup of “Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2 Century” and Star Wars at USC film school in the early nineties. Darth Vader had the voice of Marvin the Martian.
Whether Charlie Hey Ya is “highly illegal” is the kind of stuff that I let judges decide. Is it “transformative”, which some mash-ups have been ruled to be? Is the creator profiting from the work? Is is harming the original work? If the answers respectively are yes, no and not really, some judge could make the case that it is protected.