Creativity

The internet has proven to connect people around the world like never before. Through new media sites like facebook, youtube, and tumblr people are sharing ideas and communicating with others halfway around the world. Such open connections serve as a perfect environment to help foster creativity. An example of this would be the meme phenomena. This is where the use snapshots of well known characters add a caption describing a situation that many people relate to. Baruch even has its own page on facebook dedicated to such memes. This is just one example of how people use new media as a creative outlet. Another example is a website called deviantart.com. This site allows people to post their artwork online, organizes it, and allows anyone to view and appreciate it. I personally know a few people who are avid users of this site and have collaborated with other artists they met on deviantart. Since people are now sharing their ideas through new media this also allows people to interact with others b providing their own interpretation of another's work. For example on deviantart many people who are skilled at drawing will post their art online but others who know who to use computer programs with take that persons art and color it in with their artistic style reflected in it. another example comes from an article in the New Yorker that talks about how a remix artist used some software to create a mashup of Jay Z's song "Frontin" and Beck's "Debra. "After several months of work, he completed the track, called it “Frontin’ on Debra,” and posted it on his Web site. With an enthusiastic push from Beck, “Frontin’ on Debra” was made commercially available in October on iTunes". Another example comes from an article in the New York Times that speaks about how a youtube video was made of Disney characters singing a popular rap song by cutting sections of the movies they were from from and pasting it together to make it look like as if the characters themselves were singing it. As we can see new media has certainly helped foster the creativity of people and allowed them to come up with many new interesting, and  entertaining forms of art.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/24/business/media/24crank.html?_r=1