DJ Spooky Lecture

I was impressed by the DJ Spooky Lecture. He was not spooky at all. He seemed fun and down to earth and I could picture myself hanging out with him and talking philosophy. I listened to him talk a little about history, the developments of media, the traffic light, the antarctic melting, his schooling, his philosophy knowledge, His film rebirth of America, and his latest film called the Terra Nova Project.

At the end of the lecture he passed out Cd's. He instructed everyone to take one. Each CD was different and choose the one with Muslim writing on it (really good tunes by the way!). He then encouraged us to trade Cd's with our friends. He called it a "something economy" basically it was about who has the writes to what. things these days are created by bits and pieces of other creations. D.J Spooky has not been sued yet. But he has made lots of music using other peoples beats and songs which he twists to create his own. I thing this is o.k.

When you think about this one can ponder "what really is original" and why look down on someone if they are creating. Shepard Fairy certainly doesn't do original things. However we like what he does and it is his work. Andre the giant may not be his drawing but the way he fits him into the composition with the OBEY text his his work. I say everything is up for grabs.. take what you like and create what you want. Who am I to judge. The great thing about art is that is opens up dialogs like this. It is important to know that the dialog is part of the process.

D.J. spooky told us about a African American man who invented the traffic light. It was nice to hear about something a black man invented as all my schooling had only been about white men. I do think D.J. spooky could enlighten us all in the future with something A WOMAN has invented. Anyhow the traffic light is like the city rhythm's of stopping and going and similar to turn table music and the loop which began in the late 80's with chuck d and others.

D.J. Spooking ended his lecture with a trailer for his film the TERRA NOVA project. He the music put against the shots of the antarctic was just sublime. I hope we can stop it from melting. He told us ice is in between a solid and a liquid. And he also gave us insight about how the black man was referred to as cool or ice. and the white man that is cool was vanilla ice. and other ice people like ice tee. It was great to hear his perspective and knowledge. He had a fun upbeat attitude and I will be following what he is up too in the future. As a student currently studying how to teach kids I am sure d.j. spooky will have to come into my lesson plan at one point or another.