Ant Timpson { Filmhead }
Posted by Ant on 18 December 2009 at 10:32
THE GODFATHER OF MASH
I'm working on a long interview/ story about the man who I think deserves major kudos for creating what is known today as a 'mashup'. It's an interesting tale. 
An excerpt:
THE TRUE STORY BEHIND THE BIRTH OF THE VIDEO MASHUP
1995. Olympia, WA.
In the basement of a two-story house, a man inserts a vhs tape into a vcr. He then withdraws an album and places it on the turntable.
The man sees a spider crawl into the vcr. The spider is not real, the man is on the Hawaiian Sativa express. The film is The Wizard of Oz and the album is The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd.
The timing is crucial. The play button is pressed as the stylus is placed.
Look out man, magic is in the air.....
This is how the romantic envisions the birth of the contemporary pop-culture mashup. The true story behind the birth of the fusion known as The Dark Side of the Rainbow will probably never be known.
What we do know now is that it wasn’t the first, nor the most influential mashup of all time. That honour belongs to an analog video mashup.... (to be continued)
