I’m quite drawn to Cassetteboy’s YouTube remix of Nick Griffin. Both Nick Griffin and Cassetteboy were ‘trending topics’ today (23nd October 2009).
I like the speed of production – caught from television, remixed and uploaded to YouTube within hours, entering the twittersphere and going viral, becoming part of watercooler discussions – physical and virtual – all over the control.
I think Cassetteboy’s a bit of a social media John Heartfield – digital video montage instead of paper and scissors. Same take though: exposing the unsaid in the discourse of racist demogoguery.
I love the pulling bit of language out of context to make him speak the ‘truth’ of what he thinks – a nifty revisioning that mocks Griffin’s own revisionist views.
I think this is exemplary digital culture – although I’m not sure where the ‘community’ is. I’m not absolutely sure it’s found in the comments to the YouTube video
I agree! Cassetteboy is a genius. A kind of enigmatic digital Banksy : )
I’m a fan of Cassette Boy as well. He used to do some great audio mash ups of TV Chefs and newsreaders, etc. as well as the more political stuff.
I think the BNP appearance on Question Time hit a few of our lifestreams this week (including my own: http://digitalculture-ed.net/nicolao/2009/10/26/week-5-summary-mobile-distracted-down-with-the-meme/) since so much of the reporting was social media driven and in real time.