Everything is a remix. No art is truly original, and one video takes this concept to the extreme.
In his video "Not Mine," graphic designer Guy Trefler takes hundreds of characters and logos and mashes them together into a Rube Goldberg machine of frantic energy, set to Grieg's mischievous song, "In the Hall of the Mountain King." The result is a sight to see, and not quite safe for work.
"My thesis is that nothing is original, therefore, none of the materials presented in the project were made by me. All of the 469 photos used in this video were taken out of Google's image bank," Trefler states on the video's Vimeo page.
The material that makes an appearance in "Not Mine" includes corporate and tech logos, photos of monuments and art, images of objects and places, even simple characters from video games and other media. They all come together for a chain reaction devoted to displaying itself, a string of connecting shots that celebrates using such existing content in creative ways.
The website for the video breaks down each scene and the images used to create that particular section.
Guy Trefler is a graduate student at Holon Institute of Technology in Israel.
