Remix culture

 

Remix culture doesn't need to make sense and part of it's appeal is the surreal aspect of it. Because of it's ability to take current pieces of work and combine them into something new and different, it allows one greater creativity through speeding up the process compared working from scratch. I mostly think it's cool to be able to take an existing work and remix it by either adding more works or changing it to fit your own style.




What if a ghost couldn't float? It'd be able to go through any objects but will have no way of going up or down, meaning it could be stuck drifting underground beneath hills, etc and unable to go on any second stories. This issue would probably be solved by giving a ghost wings. Maybe the type of wings would also indicate morals (devil wings for evil) or personality of when it lived. (Mostly inspired by my excitement for Halloween coming up) ghost wings


Bathtub filled with toys (rubber duck, toy boat, and a pool floatie), except the bathtub is a frying pan on a stove burner because sometimes baths are ran way too hot to step into initially and it feels like it's just short of boiling hot 

frying pan boat stovetop rubber duck



Modern day jousting where instead of using a horse to charge at one another, you use vehicles suited to your preference (motorcycle having more maneuverability but the car has more "armor") motorcycle car sword




When the term shred guitar becomes a bit more literal when compared to it's meaning as a guitar player. guitar shredder




Presenting Bartholomew III, a frog-like creature with a beaver tail and cat ears wearing a top hat. It is based off of a painting me and my roommate did before starting at AuArts.

frog top hat cat ear 




Inspired by my friend I've always skateboarded with back at home, whose favorite animal is a frog

skateboard frog 






Originally, I wanted to make a pumpkin carving humans because it's spooky season but I had a hard time finding a good model for a human so I decided to use the same concept except with pumpkin pie, making a pumpkin create a human pie instead.

knife pumpkin skull pie hand








Avocado shrimp salad with a banana stabbed on a fork. Inspired by banana fish because I combined one of the main character's favorite foods (avocado shrimp salad) and a banana on a fork inspired by the picture above

banana lettuce fork shrimp



Puzzle pieces on a keychain because it's super frustrating to loose a puzzle piece, so if you keep it on a keychain it'll always be with you. (The cons have not been overlooked here, it would just be ironic if you had a whole puzzle put together but each piece has a random hole ruining the whole picture)

puzzle pieces carabiner 




A twist on the idea of Jack and the Beanstalk except it is weaponized to better protect the golden egg. Originally I found the model for the piranha plant from mario and I was going to give it legs, but since the head was too big of a file I decided to utilize the body for a beanstalk and I found a rocket with smoke that I used for "clouds" leading me to the Jack and the Beanstalk idea 

mario plant smoke/cloud gun


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