Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s “Painting With Thought - Enhanced Edition”

This week’s column was on the subject of the “mashup.” I spent a long time waxing philosophically about the nature of the mashup, the idea of a meta-music that is constituted entirely of other songs.

I realized that for many people, the mashup might be something they have little but passing familiarity with. To that end, this EE is going to be a sampler of some notable mashups.

Super Mash Bros.
Website
YouTube Playlist
Facebook Page
Myspace Page

Girltalk
YouTube Playlist
Myspace Page

See you later,
-Daniel

Word is out that Columbia Pictures is entering “advanced talks” with David Fincher (”Se7en,” “Fight Club,” “Zodiac”) to direct a film revolving around the birth of Facebook, the immensely popular online social network created in 2004 by computer whiz turned-entrepreneur Mark Zuckerberg.

Aaron Sorkin (”The West Wing”) is working on a script based on Ben Mezrich’s yet-to-be released book “The Accidental Billionaires,” which allegedly depicts the scandalous origins behind Zuckerberg’s Internet empire. Shia LaBeouf and Michael Cera have been tagged as strong candidates for the role of Zuckerberg, who left Harvard after Facebook’s meteoric rise and vaulted to the Forbes 400 last year as the world’s youngest billionaire.

Tentatively titled “The Social Network,” the film—set to begin production later this year—would imply a significant change in subject for Fincher (”The Curious Case of Benjamin Button”), whose success as a filmmaker is often attributed to his ability to handle a diverse array of film genres and narrative tropes. Should be interesting; stay tuned for further developments.

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