Cameron Booth has created a redesigned map of the US Interstate System.

Jeff Klarin and Rebecca Johnson make up BUGHOUSE design. The duo creates limited edition furniture (amongst other artistic pursuits) that subvert the traditional expectations placed on functional objects. Upcycling and remixing elements from such diverse areas as pharmacology, DJ culture and the occult, BUGHOUSE makes extremely unique furnishings that give new life to common objects.

BUGHOUSE Art + Design

The ease in which YouTube has allowed users to share digital video has helped enable a variety of projects that exist as offshoots of the service: the video mashup, web vlogging stars, and now, frame by frame visualization tool yooouuutuuube.com. Perhaps a little less known is You 3b. A project of former Eyebeam fellows, You 3b allows for the live remixing of YouTube videos.
On May 16th at Postmasters in New York, the  Artists Meeting collective will be using the program to live-remix YouTube videos into media art tryptichs.
They explain:
Today anyone can be a star. The famous, the infamous and the [...]

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Following in the path of Kutiman’s YouTube mashup videos, “In Bb 2.0″ is a collaborative music and spoken word project that uses a grid of video clips as tracks in a musical composition. Visitors to the inbflat website can play, pause, and adjust the volume on  any of the videos to create a unique musical piece. Anyone can contribute – instructions are up on the page.
In Bb 2.0
[via Chris Arkenberg]

It seems like the perfect formula for a date book: Jane Austen + undead ultraviolence. Last seen guiding people “How to Survive a Horror Movie”, Seth Grahame-Smith hijacks the classic author’s “Pride and Prejudice” with an unexpected and critically acclaimed zombie angle.
“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” is set to be the first of a series of Quirk Classics that fool around with influential literature. To comply with copyright laws however, it’s likely that only stories published in the United States before 1923 will qualify. The publisher, Quirk Books, has mentioned some of their favorite fan-suggested titles on their website (publishing [...]

Boing Boing had an image remix challenge this week that tackled the over-the-top “anti-terrorism” posters created by the London police. The paranoia inducing ad campaign got a very funny remixing by the blog’s readers.
The Original:

The Remixes:

Boing Boing has a bunch more here.

Israeli funk musician Kutiman has created an impressive web remix project named Thru YOU. He’s collected all kinds of unrelated YouTube videos of music performances, cut them up and mixed it all together to create totally new tracks.
Thru YOU
[via Xtal]

Thursday night, we were treated to an insightful and inspiring production at the New York Public Library as part of their Live from the NYPL series and sponsored by Wired. Titled “Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy”, the event featured Lawrence Lessig, founder of Creative Commons among other things, and Shepard Fairey, whom you may have heard of recently. Moderated by cultural historian Steven Johnson, it intended to focus on the future of art and ideas in an age when practically anything can be copied, pasted, downloaded, sampled, and re-imagined. Less about commerce and more about [...]

Dutch design outfit Demakersvan has attempted to remedy the cold industrial feel of the chain link fence by adding an unexpected flourish of beauty to the standard security device. Re-routing the repetitive diamond pattern of the fence into a needlepoint-esque organic design, the “Lace Fence” concept brings some sorely needed beauty into this ubiquitous element of urban space.
[via Dinosaurs & Robots]

A group of 51 artists from all over the world are celebrating the art of the everyday object at the Museum of Arts and Design’s exhibit “Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary”. In the spirit of Marcel Duchamp’s “Readymades”, these artists transform items that would normally blend invisibly into the background of daily life into stimulating works of art. Using found and mass-produced things like vinyl records, dog tags, thread and telephone books as their raw material, they have squeezed out new meaning, and beauty from ordinary stuff.  The show runs till April 19 at the Museum’s new Columbus Circle location. [...]

Kilakutu means “everything” in Swahili, and is the name of an innovative Kenyan company that digs through the massive piles of secondhand clothes in Nairobi’s used clothing markets for source material to use in their own clothing line. This “clothing renewal” service uses pre-used, unique fabrics and clothing from all over the world to create their own take on the classic 1970s Stetson shirt. These remixed-recycled pieces are one of a kind, and are handmade made in small batches. Ownership of these worldly shirts comes with the added benefit of access to exclusive music tracks made for Kilakutu, and matching [...]