This. Is. Genius. Not sure I've experienced such joy watching a YT video in a long time. Long live expertly made, intensely creative, content that helps us navigate and process this soup of images we're swimming through everyday.
Welcome to the 10 minute BrainCraft video essay. I'm always experimenting with format, so let me know what you think 🙃 And do you have a favourite remix?? Right now, mine is "Smashmouth Recreated From Windows XP Sounds" (see 9:42)
my favourite pogo has to be the TNG one; th-cam.com/video/bl5TUw7sUBs/w-d-xo.html but there are some great songify contenders for general remixes [e.g. can't hug every cat or obama singing call me maybe... ]
It was a blast helping out on this video! It covers one of my favorite chapters in the book and was a real trip down memory lane. Plus, Vanessa introduced me to a whole bunch of new ideas about creativity and the science behind it. Hope you like it too!
OK so this makes me realize that a remix of Brain Craft would be the most wonderful and meta thing in the history of ever. So, that's my request! (BdeP)
It's not Bob Ross' fault that someone autotuned him speaking, but autotuning someone speaking should be illegal. It is the worst. It's like vomiting inside my brain. Now I will have to thumb this video down for including too much autotuned speech.
TIL Manipulable is an actual word. And this video reinforced my existing beliefs about meme culture, their inherent intertextuality and the amount of collaboration that goes on with memes.
I saw a video made by a guy named Adam Neely that stated that in modern music, nobody is original, that everyone creating music today has slight influence from other artists whether we realize it or not. I feel like this has been extremely heightened by remixes from as simple as using another voice to cover a song in almost the exact same way to mashing together different movies and TV shows into a song. I, myself, admit to making many (experimental) remixes that (a small amount of) people seem to enjoy. Not only is it fun to look at, it can also be fun to make. I think that's why we (sometimes or often) like to listen to songs that sound similar to other songs and why we like remixes.
It is mindblowing, how tweeking and changing something a bit makes it better or worse, and almost always memorable. I'll have to pay a little more attention to what remixes make me think.
I think one of my favorite parts of this video is seeing random snippets of so many of my favorite TH-camrs, playing off of the Nostalgia thing. :3 Pretty Cool.
I think this explains why Stranger Things is so amazing and popular and why I'm obsessed with it. Not only the nostalgia of it, but the series itself is like a remix of pop culture present and past.
It's okay, Vanessa; I too have been on a Pogo kick lately ^_^ I actually find it particularly pleasing to listen to when I want to focus, simply because it gives me no sequitor set of thoughts or lyrics to catch more than a small part of my attention. I love it as work music :)
This video explains prefectly, why I love hiphop, and why it became so popular so quickly. (Sampling being part of it from the very beginning, easier to participate then other genres since you can do it without instruments etc). But this is just a theory, a some kind of theory
Something else you could add: while remixes might be an easy form to listen to content you already know, it makes it really hard to digest new information. I actually had a really tough time concentrating on what you were saying not knowing when you were going to cut in remixes.
Yeah, I'm wondering whether it's a deliberate wind-up, because of the hard/soft G debate. It's like when some of us at school were arguing about whether 'scone' was pronounced 'scon' or 'scoan', and a prefect shouted "It's SCOON. Now get on with your work!"
I never felt any nostalgia with this video 'cause I am from the Philippines and not from USA and context and culture-wise I never knew those people presented in this video and don't have visual or emotional memory of them that really can make me nostaligc...........but the repetition of words, scenes, and videos made me seem to feel weird, happy, scared, afraid, dizzy, and amazed .......................my head is aching right now honestly.............but I love this experimental modern art-like video you made.
Kinda makes me inspired to write a program that takes the transcription of a video and checks a database of every song ever made (with lyrics) if the video has words to make up the entire song. With a little help of autotune and some background music, it'd be a very easy way to make a remix of something like a politician speech.
You know what? This video/subject immediately had me thinking of that one documentary // video essay series called "Everything is a Remix" by Kirby Ferguson. (I wonder if this book references some similar ideas.) Definitely recommend if anyone hasn't seen it before! www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series
You raised a lot of questions. And you did it in a remix of remixes way. Your video was essentially a remix, some of it your own work. That's pretty clever and original. I wonder if remixes have any staying power. Also, how many times can you combine remixes to produce remixes and still be effective?
Repetition is the most convincing way to make a point well then, BrainCraft is the best brain related channel on TH-cam. BrainCraft is the best brain related channel on TH-cam. BrainCraft is the best brain related channel on TH-cam. BrainCraft is the best brain related channel on TH-cam. BrainCraft is the best brain related channel on TH-cam. I think I made my point very clear.
Interesting subject, but I'm not sure we all like remixes. I like remix of a song only if (in my opinion) the remix is better than the original song, e.g. because that remix fits better into my favorite genre of music. But remixes are often seen as a fake / bad copy of the original song, movie, etc. Some remixes are highly irritating for me. Speaking of "irritating", this video has too many flashing and frequently changing images - It's uncomfortable to watch. I was close to clicking the thumb down button because of that. I didn't do it just because I like this channel very much and I appreciate Vanessa's work.
this is one of my favorite brainy craft video while being stone . it a coincident I was smoking a hybrid. it got me thinking . if you re-re mix something... will it be a new thing
Awesome video, but you should have mentioned Niel Cicierega who really was at the forefront of the All Star remix trend (and is still in many ways the best).
Hehe reminds me of the hit song with David Cameron; Getting piggy with it. which is a remix of an older song made for a certain political revelation a couple of years ago
I am a sucker for incongruity, especially when it’s in the spirit of mingling differences in culture. Gimme a cattle auctioneer set to a trap beat. Gimme cybergoths dancing to Thomas the tank engine. Gimme footage from one of those hands-on-healing mega churches where people ‘catch the spirit’ and freak out and play Black Metal over it so it looks like a mosh pit. All of that is my jam! P.S. That channel with the calculator music did a damn fine version of Despacito.
One Remix that is really well done is the Thomas the Train Engine remix using Biggie Smalls rap song. BTW its very NSFW in terms of language sadly. But its a good remix none the less. Though if you want a "safe" one to listen to look for the Fresh Prince remix of Thomas.
So what does it mean that I have the complete opposite reaction to remixes? I can't stand them. Even ones that pull from things I like I can barely tolerate.
This. Is. Genius. Not sure I've experienced such joy watching a YT video in a long time. Long live expertly made, intensely creative, content that helps us navigate and process this soup of images we're swimming through everyday.
Welcome to the 10 minute BrainCraft video essay. I'm always experimenting with format, so let me know what you think 🙃
And do you have a favourite remix?? Right now, mine is "Smashmouth Recreated From Windows XP Sounds" (see 9:42)
my favourite pogo has to be the TNG one; th-cam.com/video/bl5TUw7sUBs/w-d-xo.html but there are some great songify contenders for general remixes [e.g. can't hug every cat or obama singing call me maybe... ]
Pogo is a genius!
th-cam.com/video/BMixvtxkUfw/w-d-xo.html R E M I X
It was like an hour video
I like it, and my favorite remix is ‘never gonna hit those notes’
Wow I'm pretty sure incongruity theory is the only reason people like my channel. Never knew it had a name. Thank you braincraft!
TierZoo well that and it puts a lot of information in a fun, easy to digest format. Kinda like this channel.... :D
This video is a really good example of why your channel stands out. Awesome production quality. Love these!
I've been watching you for two years now, and this is your best work yet Vanessa.
It was a blast helping out on this video! It covers one of my favorite chapters in the book and was a real trip down memory lane. Plus, Vanessa introduced me to a whole bunch of new ideas about creativity and the science behind it. Hope you like it too!
I don't know if it was the incongruity, the repitution, or the nostalga (or the combination of them), but I THOROUGHLY enjoyed this video!
So we crave repetition. But at the same time, if something repeats too often, we grow tired of it. Food for thought.
interesting indeed
I love video essays, I love remixes, and I love Braincraft. 10/10
Wow, great video editing! Everything connected to the theme! :)
The quality of your videos is so satisfying keep posting 👍
just wait for somebody to remix this video.
Incredible video! Wow Vanessa, your best one yet. Fascinating and engaging all the way through, this ought to be trending.
Really liked this video. Idea Channel sure made me feel nostalgic :(
OK so this makes me realize that a remix of Brain Craft would be the most wonderful and meta thing in the history of ever. So, that's my request! (BdeP)
I loved the editing in this one.
Ahh thank you! It definitely took longer than usual 😋
Happy little cloud.
Happy little tree.
Bob Ross 5ever.
👏
It's not Bob Ross' fault that someone autotuned him speaking, but autotuning someone speaking should be illegal. It is the worst. It's like vomiting inside my brain. Now I will have to thumb this video down for including too much autotuned speech.
Pogo!! I love that you dropped some of his music in this :) Also, this must have taken forever to pull together, nice job!
TIL Manipulable is an actual word. And this video reinforced my existing beliefs about meme culture, their inherent intertextuality and the amount of collaboration that goes on with memes.
~LEARNING IS HAPPENING~
It will take all day for me to look at all these sources...and I'm tempted to do just that.
I saw a video made by a guy named Adam Neely that stated that in modern music, nobody is original, that everyone creating music today has slight influence from other artists whether we realize it or not. I feel like this has been extremely heightened by remixes from as simple as using another voice to cover a song in almost the exact same way to mashing together different movies and TV shows into a song. I, myself, admit to making many (experimental) remixes that (a small amount of) people seem to enjoy. Not only is it fun to look at, it can also be fun to make. I think that's why we (sometimes or often) like to listen to songs that sound similar to other songs and why we like remixes.
"Here's a idea" 😭😭😭
WHY DO YOU HURT US LIKE THIS VANESSA, WHY OH WHY, RUB IT IN WHY DONT YA
It is mindblowing, how tweeking and changing something a bit makes it better or worse, and almost always memorable. I'll have to pay a little more attention to what remixes make me think.
Totally, a great point. Thanks for watching 🧠
"Hast du noch ein bischen weed?"
- Angela Merkel
7:22
xDDD
I think one of my favorite parts of this video is seeing random snippets of so many of my favorite TH-camrs, playing off of the Nostalgia thing. :3 Pretty Cool.
2:30 jaif ..... really
jOkEr GamEr I died a little when I heard that... 😜
start a new war
I think this explains why Stranger Things is so amazing and popular and why I'm obsessed with it. Not only the nostalgia of it, but the series itself is like a remix of pop culture present and past.
I looooooooove this one.
Saw the dual calculator all star before it was cool
This was a really well put together video. I really liked the editing. It was fun watch and really informative .
It's okay, Vanessa; I too have been on a Pogo kick lately ^_^ I actually find it particularly pleasing to listen to when I want to focus, simply because it gives me no sequitor set of thoughts or lyrics to catch more than a small part of my attention.
I love it as work music :)
This video explains prefectly, why I love hiphop, and why it became so popular so quickly. (Sampling being part of it from the very beginning, easier to participate then other genres since you can do it without instruments etc). But this is just a theory, a some kind of theory
I really hate that repeat-repeat-slowdown thing
Something else you could add: while remixes might be an easy form to listen to content you already know, it makes it really hard to digest new information. I actually had a really tough time concentrating on what you were saying not knowing when you were going to cut in remixes.
Great. Now I miss Mike's show even more.
I'm really high and this video makes my brain hurt.
Obama remix hijacks my brain so much and makes me watch it. It sure proves that its unexpected. XD 10 min format sounds awesome!
It isn't a remix until it features Lil Jon. What!?Yeyeah!
2:31 Did that guy just pronounce 'GIF' as 'JIFE'? Does he actually *want* a smack in the face?
I also have never before heard this pronunciation...
Yeah, I'm wondering whether it's a deliberate wind-up, because of the hard/soft G debate. It's like when some of us at school were arguing about whether 'scone' was pronounced 'scon' or 'scoan', and a prefect shouted "It's SCOON. Now get on with your work!"
*"JYFE"*
it is
I love you for linking the remixes in the dooblydoo.
It was going to be a nightmare having to search for some of those.
2:30
Animated *What?*
Did I just hear "Jifes" as the pronunciation for Gifs?
The stop motion was so amazing
Wow!!!
From only 20000 subscribers to 400000!!!
You are on fire girl!!!
Keep making videos!!!
It's a part of us all
A part of us all
A part of us all
I love this channel! It would be awesome if the uploads were more frequent, only once a week is not enough! 😀
This is so meta
I never felt any nostalgia with this video 'cause I am from the Philippines and not from USA and context and culture-wise I never knew those people presented in this video and don't have visual or emotional memory of them that really can make me nostaligc...........but the repetition of words, scenes, and videos made me seem to feel weird, happy, scared, afraid, dizzy, and amazed .......................my head is aching right now honestly.............but I love this experimental modern art-like video you made.
Kinda makes me inspired to write a program that takes the transcription of a video and checks a database of every song ever made (with lyrics) if the video has words to make up the entire song. With a little help of autotune and some background music, it'd be a very easy way to make a remix of something like a politician speech.
Oh there’s that keen awareness of existential anxiety, wasn’t wondering where I put that
I had a dream that one day somebody would write an essay on the psychological effect of memes. But it is not this day! This day we remix!
You know what? This video/subject immediately had me thinking of that one documentary // video essay series called "Everything is a Remix" by Kirby Ferguson. (I wonder if this book references some similar ideas.)
Definitely recommend if anyone hasn't seen it before!
www.everythingisaremix.info/watch-the-series
I love how ars poetic this video is
Is nostalgia that awful feeling when you realise how old you are or when you get reminded of past trauma and all the good things you missed out on?
I am probably going to remember the ideas behind Cognitive Fluency and Incongruity Theory because of how you repeated them.
Achievement unlocked.
You raised a lot of questions. And you did it in a remix of remixes way. Your video was essentially a remix, some of it your own work. That's pretty clever and original. I wonder if remixes have any staying power. Also, how many times can you combine remixes to produce remixes and still be effective?
Repetition is the most convincing way to make a point well then, BrainCraft is the best brain related channel on TH-cam. BrainCraft is the best brain related channel on TH-cam. BrainCraft is the best brain related channel on TH-cam. BrainCraft is the best brain related channel on TH-cam. BrainCraft is the best brain related channel on TH-cam. I think I made my point very clear.
What was the remix with snow white singing?
That one was: Wishery | Pogo th-cam.com/video/qs1bG6BIYlo/w-d-xo.html
Thanks! Love your channel! :D
Amazing video, in both content and style.
You're a very good presenter. Thank you for sharing.
I think the bigger question would be "Why would someone want to hijack someone else's brain?"
Wow, what a great video, Vanessa!
Interesting subject, but I'm not sure we all like remixes.
I like remix of a song only if (in my opinion) the remix is better than the original song, e.g. because that remix fits better into my favorite genre of music. But remixes are often seen as a fake / bad copy of the original song, movie, etc. Some remixes are highly irritating for me.
Speaking of "irritating", this video has too many flashing and frequently changing images - It's uncomfortable to watch. I was close to clicking the thumb down button because of that. I didn't do it just because I like this channel very much and I appreciate Vanessa's work.
This episode contains exclusive 15% of new footage. Btw. who was the screaming "just do it" guy? I never seen him.
Loved it!!
No no no, steamed HAMS! That's what I call hamburgers.
this is one of my favorite brainy craft video while being stone . it a coincident I was smoking a hybrid. it got me thinking . if you re-re mix something... will it be a new thing
YTPs :)
2:30 those god damn animated jifes.
This video is incredible
Great video, keep it up!
Was it hard to get all the clips to do this? I mean, as opposed to your normal videos. Anyway, this was brilliant.
Pogo and Cassetteboy are both great, familiar with a few of the others but need to check, thanks for linking everything.
Very interesting video! Thank you for it
loved the video!
The original all star is one of my favorite songs.
Would be interesting to know why some people (like myself and clearly others that commented) find remixes irritating and not stimulating
You should make a video on how social media hijack our attention
2:10
I'm not part of your system, *MAN!*
Is that a Tasmanian tiger on your shirt in the first part of the video? Cute!
I.Just.Love.This.
muh copyright cried the record companies, how can we spread quality culture if everyone can do it they said.
So, what you're saying is... this video about remixes was essentially a remix of a book you're promoting? ;)
I mean, I love the book. You should read it 🙂
Only teasing, don't worry! :)
Awesome video, but you should have mentioned Niel Cicierega who really was at the forefront of the All Star remix trend (and is still in many ways the best).
Yay! Mashups!
This video is very beautiful.
Hehe reminds me of the hit song with David Cameron; Getting piggy with it. which is a remix of an older song made for a certain political revelation a couple of years ago
I am a sucker for incongruity, especially when it’s in the spirit of mingling differences in culture. Gimme a cattle auctioneer set to a trap beat. Gimme cybergoths dancing to Thomas the tank engine. Gimme footage from one of those hands-on-healing mega churches where people ‘catch the spirit’ and freak out and play Black Metal over it so it looks like a mosh pit. All of that is my jam!
P.S. That channel with the calculator music did a damn fine version of Despacito.
One Remix that is really well done is the Thomas the Train Engine remix using Biggie Smalls rap song. BTW its very NSFW in terms of language sadly. But its a good remix none the less. Though if you want a "safe" one to listen to look for the Fresh Prince remix of Thomas.
(I've been trying to think of something to commet for too long now, lol) I loved the video.
Now I know why I hate remixes. I find them a waste of time.
Nice POGO reference
Is this a masterpiece or inordinate and extraneous? Will the book be in Dymocks? I'm really not the online shopping sort.
It should be in Dymocks! I would just call/email your local store first to check they have it in stock.
Did he...
Did he say "jaif" for gif?!?!
hahaha it sounded strange to me too
#zyf4lyf PBS Idea Channel had a unique way of pronouncing .gif because agreeing upon the "proper" pronunciation caused so much controversy.
Shia LaBeouf? Dammit I thought it was Wil Wheaton with a goatee. It even sounds like him.
interesting video. but i found it very hard to watch and concentrate on the subject because of all the editing
The modern editing technique I think I hate the most is the repeat-repeat-repeat-in-slowmo >_
So what does it mean that I have the complete opposite reaction to remixes? I can't stand them. Even ones that pull from things I like I can barely tolerate.
That clip reminded me of Idea Channel... Now I'm sad :c To make up for it you should do an episode on how to get it to come back
I love Pogo!