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The 2005 Wired Rave Awards

Posted by Zonk on from the an-iron-giant-of-a-man dept.

smack-pot writes "March 2005 issue of Wired Magazine features The 2005 Wired Rave Awards announcements. The 15 categories include Films, Business, Science, Architecture, Medicine, Games etc. Some of the winners are Brad Bird for The Incredibles, Danger Mouse for The Grey Album, Burt Rutan for SpaceShipOne, and Pete Parsons for Halo 2."

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  1. Jon Stewart by fraudrogic · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't know. iFilms is great and all, but I think Jon Stewart should have won for Television. He did something (and continues to) that no one else on major television stations would dare do, and that is be brutally honest and be intelligent about it. When it comes to those qualities, he's my hero. Oh and the humor aspect is pretty good too.

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    1. Re:Jon Stewart by PopeAlien · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Uh yeah.. especially since it was Jon Stewart that helped boost iFilms page views. Jon Stewart creates tv content, iFilms simply distributes clips of it.. It seems a strange choice for winner of the 'television' category.

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    2. Re:Jon Stewart by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Have you ever even watched the Daily Show? Virtually every episode since the elections has slipped in at least one joke about democrats sucking it up in the election, including making fun of Kerry directly and the party in general. Beyond that, what can he make fun of them for? They don't control enough to actually do anything stupid..

    3. Re:Jon Stewart by Illserve · · Score: 3, Insightful

      You know, the sad part is, I don't think he was embarassed.

      I think he thought he tore Jon a new one.

      I think he thought that this "comedian" was out of his league on a real hard-hitting news show.

      At the end Jon just bites his tongue. It's like letting a child think they've beaten you because it would do no good to tell them otherwise.

    4. Re:Jon Stewart by RatBastard · · Score: 4, Insightful
      but he is definitely biased towards the left and has admitted as much.

      Explain to me how admitting to being biased makes him less honest politically? I'm really trying to make that work but it just doesn't wash. Not being "brutally honest about politics" would be him not admitting his bias. I've watched a lot of his show and he has never hidden his bias nor has he pretended to not be biased, like many cammentators/journalists/pundits who are biased towards the right.

      I don't know what word you want, but I don't think "honest" is it.

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    5. Re:Jon Stewart by Deadstick · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Carlson's confidence may have suffered somewhat when CNN fired him and killed the show...

      rj

  2. Is Danger Mouse that important? by sielwolf · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I guess it's basic 15-second mainstream digestible keystone of mash-up'dom.

    Of course this is old as hip-hop itself. Dancehall exists on the idea of a riddim becoming popular itself and multiple deejays rap/sing over it. Now hip-hop, R&B and Reggeton artists get in on it. An example from '04: Pitbull "Culo", Mr Vegas "Pull Up", Nina Sky "Move Ya Body" and many others all used the Coolie Dance Riddim.

    The pop culture clash of using a very recognizable outer-genre instrumental (the "mash-up") got big in clubs two years ago (making this Wire award a bit like John Wayne's Oscar). A popular one was Whitney Houston ("I want to dance with somebody") over Kraftwerk ("Numbers") forming ala Voltron to Girls on Top's "I Want to Dance with some Numbers". Nigh unreleasable due to copyright considerations but interesting none the less.

    Of course now MTV is in the Official Mash-up business by creating things that aren't Mash-ups at all (that Jay-Z and Linkin Park thing is, due to original parts by both artists, a collaboration).

    I still think Chopped and Screwed is going to hit the mainstream consciousness soon as T.I.'s disc just got the treatment and it sold amazingly. And kids are chop n' screwing all sorts of tracks now. Many on laptops and then distributed into the public conscious via P2P (so Wired could give it an award and be a bit ahead the bellcurve). Of course this is a decade old style too.

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  3. Re:suspect statement by bitrott · · Score: 3, Insightful

    How can you even put Shrek in the same category as Toy Story? Because of the graphics? PLEASE, people. Toy Story and The Incredibles are amazing movies because they're good stories told well because BRAIN came before cheap pop-culture references and lame, embarassingly lame visual gags.

    I've always maintained that Shrek doesn't even rate as a fine example of what animation is capable of, when 99% of the gags won't make sense to anyone in 5 years time.