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Mashed Up in a Remixed Alternate Dimension

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What is Remix Culture? My understanding is that it revolves around combining, salvaging parts of old previous materials or design and to create a new idea or object. Essentially ranges from taking little bits and pieces here and there from existing objects to a much bigger scale such as fan-based art, or perhaps a literal mashup between two completely different objects but remixed for functionality or concept. With that, I explored a bunch of areas and also the program "Meshmixer". From fan-based art, literal mashings, to substituting existing uses or functionalities with different or similar ones. Here are the 10 my mashups I enjoyed mashing together. Ostrich Turtle https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:182332/#files https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:182237 Pill Bike https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:366984/#files https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:1187895/#files Congratulatory Alarm https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:43815 https://www.thingiverse.

Objectified on Tinkercad

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"There's a story embedded into every object, every decision was made at some point about something." - Andrew Blauvelt I really had no idea on what object I should do create; until this PCS 4 Braun record player, designed by Dieter Rams & Gerd Alfred Müller, came out during the film "Objectified" and it just clicked with me. "...The concept of wearing in, rather than wearing out. You would like to create something where the emotional relationship is more satisfying over time." -  Bill Moggridge  I never grew up using record players, but music had influenced my childhood and I used a fair bit of mp3 players to iPods. But with the fast pace of technological advances towards data, the need for portability, and the revolution to digitize. I never had the chance to settle with an object. Especially with nowadays where your playing functions are more done by touch, I feel I lost that emotional relationship with the object I am interacti