Video contest: What is Remix Culture?

Owen Gallagher, Creative Director of TotalRecut.com, passes along word of a remix contest that I’ll be a judge in:

TotalRecut.com is hosting a Video Remix Challenge over the next two
months and we want you to create a short video using the theme: ‘What
is Remix Culture?’ You can you use any footage you can find, including
Public Domain and Creative Commons work, but the finished video cannot
be longer than 3 minutes or shorter than 30 seconds long.

The prizes
include a laptop computer loaded with video editing and conversion
software, a digital camcorder, a digital media player, as well as
Special Edition Total Recut T-Shirts, books, DVDs and CDs. We have an
amazing lineup of judges for the contest including Lawrence Lessig,
Henry Jenkins, Kembrew McLeod, Pat Aufderheide, JD Lasica and Mark
Hosler. You can find out more information at: http://www.totalrecut.com/contest1.php.

Entries will be accepted from May 1 until June 2 when public voting will begin. The best 10 videos at the end of the 2-week voting period will be put forward into the final, where they will
be voted on by the judging panel. The winners will be announced around
the 1st of July. So get busy making those videos!

Here’s a link to the YouTube promotional video for the contest.

JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.