Of Photoshoppery, Mash Ups, and Marcel Duchamp

First the Photoshoppery (context can be found at this Althouse post, picture created by the blogger behind Sippican Cottage, who's been posting a nice series (1, 2, 3) of post all about old historic architecture in Providence, R.I., lately)


Now the mash up, WaPo has a contest where you create a candidate interview (at least that's the most likely setting for the questions posed) using a series of questions posed by Dana Milbank (still a jerk, but no funny hats) intercut with footage you provide. The footage can be anything that isn't copyrighted by someone other than yourself. So get out your webcams, or delve into the public domain, and do up something funny.

The accompanying article (plus online chat with Sara and Molly McRoberts, an 18-year old mash up artist connected with www.lostvideo.net (her most widely seen mash-up is Brokeback Island) is by Sara Kehaulani Goo, she has my favorite name of any journalist, ever.

Of course, I blame Marcel Duchamp for all this, Fountain, and L.H.O.O.Q. started it all (any list of most influential artists of the 20th century must have him either one or two, also he has one of the best epitaphs from his Wiki, "His grave bears the epitaph, "D'ailleurs, c'est toujours les autres qui meurent;" or "Anyway, it's always other people that die."".