A constantly recurring theme I’m seeing in viral design work is the idea of mashups. You know, taking 2 unrelated things and putting them together for fun and mischief. Mashups seem to have many elements that appeal to our senses: The unexpected, humorous situations, cult classics and nostalgia. I’ve already seen a few mashups come across as ideas for ds106 assignments and I think that’s great. It causes us to stretch, think outside the box, and create a new visual story for items and ideas that have already existed in our culture.
Here are some of the more compelling mashups I’ve come across recently:
Daniel Polovoy’s Photo Collages
Star Wars meets The Princess Bride
Sci-Fi Children’s Books
Iron Pooh
NES Electric Guitar
Perhaps I’ll need to just start challenging myself to take two or more ordinary things and make something amazing with them.
By Jim Groom December 16, 2010 - 5:51 am
This is a brilliant list of Mashups, and I hadn't seen the image mashups you start with in this post, and they are nothing short of magical. From Lincoln, to Kiss to Yoda—genius!
By NoiseProfessor December 16, 2010 - 12:43 pm
Go Timmmmyboy – make that GIF!