The 2005 Wired Rave Awards

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."

Action Animation Movies?

[ackthpt]

Inability to put characters in jeopardy?

(resisting the joke about rendering Alex Trebek) I think anyone who says that is nuts, as nuts as the producers who need star-power to keep them warm at night. Bird just did the job right. There were some pretty insightful comments back in the Discworld movie topic, regarding writing a movie you can make. I become more a cynic when I read people's opinions that such and such can't be done. It's an illusion, dumbasses. Bird's gifted enough to take the intelligent approach. To see the wrong approach taken again, watch Tom Cruise in Spielberg's WoW. Or see a class act, the Pendragon version late March. Bug your theater to carry it! Hopefully it'll live up to expectations and make Wired's list next year.

grey album

[tsunamifirestorm]

for those who don't know, the grey album is a remix record using beats from the beatle's white album with vocals from jay-z's black album it's available at http://www.bannedmusic.org/ [bannedmusic.org] and is hosted by http://www.downhillbattle.org/ [downhillbattle.org]. DJ Dangermouse was the DJ who made this mix.

winners

[Fox_1]

The Rave Awards

Film: Brad Bird [wired.com] : Business: Shigeyuki Hori [wired.com]

Science: Steven Squyres [wired.com] : Medicine: Robert Lanza [wired.com]

Architecture: Rem Koolhaas [wired.com] : Music: Danger Mouse [wired.com]

Television: Blair Harrison [wired.com] : Blogs: Kevin Sites [wired.com]

Books: Jeff Hawkins [wired.com] : Industrial Design: Burt Rutan [wired.com]

Technology: Mark Fletcher [wired.com] : Art: Jennifer Kevin Mccoy [wired.com]

Games: Pete Parsons [wired.com]

Re:Jon Stewart

[PopeAlien]

for them that know not:

Jon Stewart is the host of a satyrical news show called 'the Daily Show' that plays on comedy central. some clips can be viewed on thier greatest moments webpage [comedycentral.com]

he also gained some fame as a guest on 'Crossfire' were he tore the pants off of and humiliated co-host Tucker Carlson [ifilm.com]

Re:grey album

[Anonymous Coward]

It also sucks.

Re:grey album

[Metapsyborg]

I realize that a lot of /.ers are not big fans of hip-hop. Still, JayZ/Rocafella never tried to stop DM from distributing the album (to my knowlege). It's a common practice for major-label hip-hop artists to release mixtapes and other free content to their fans. 50Cent made his name from mixtapes, and many others have realized that these free albums are great marketing tools. Yes, a lot of people here hate hip-hop, but they've got to respect the copyright holder's generosity...and the fact that they encourage some of their works to be freely distributed.

I don't have a problem with a Dj winning an award like this; I do have a problem with a Dj winning an award for mixing together 2 over-hyped albums. Someone else mentioned the X-ecutioners; sure they use samples, but they practically create their own beats out of these samples. Their premise is a "band" where each instrument is a Dj with a turntable. They use the scratches to create beats.

Dangermouse just rode Jayz's overhyped "hip-hop" to success. An outfit like the x-ecutioners is more deserving of an award than this guy. Heck, I can think of a dozen dj/producers more original, people like blocktop, rjd2, buck 65, Mr. Dibbs, etc. Dangermouse doesn't deserve jack for doin' something that could easily be replicated with a computer and some wavs.