sort of leapt at because I um most of the work that I do is either on books or book jackets. This was a set of posters reinterpreting Norman Rockwell's Four Freedoms. This was a sponsored by the Wolfsonian uh Design Museum in Miami, and there's a show there now. It actually opened in on the 4th of July, and it will close at the end of the year
I guess if I think of the basic essence of where it comes from, it's just being able to transport your imagination, transport yourself through imagination, like reinterpreting the environment around you, seeing things differently, to full immersion, watching a television show or a movie, or being a kid and playing with GI Joes in the dirt, anything that incorporates and engages my imagination.
I have selective hearing, and so that's the natural process that I go through when I listen to music, is I take the parts that I like the most and reinterpret them in my own way and so, for me, "Selective Hearing" is a little more personal, gives me a little more freedom to just go anywhere and go to different places of music.
Janis Gaye recently mentioned in an interview, they asked her what-- if she had any favorite remixes or reinterpretations, and she brought me up. And The Pharcyde, I was able to collaborate with them and perform with them at South by Southwest.
And it's, you know, 800 pages. It's a reinterpretation of the history of the United States through money. Like the central character is money, whether it's specie, greenback, or the US currency.
It's like working at McDonald's, and going, wow, I'm going to make you tacos here. This is my reinterpretation of it, and it's my birthright, literally.
And we also have drinks from Fail Whale Pale Ale beer label contest to the Fail Whale martini. We also have fashion reinterpretation of the whale. What's really amazing is I was able to connect with users around the world and see their own creativity being released
Here you can see a few of my favorite authors. And the ways they reinterpret the classical painter art works, integrating them into modern format, and help us to look at them in a totally new way. It's ,, it's ,, and also, it's Fat Cat Art.
and uh it was kind of popular at the time but we decided that this novel was very interesting so we would read it and we would reinterpret what it would mean and we would go back and try to research you know this novel maybe a few people reviewed it we might have a few scant details about the writer's life but for the most part it would be open for us to
we're talking about here and then I would come back um and to the studio and attempt to reinterpret my interpretation so that it could be used to present what I had learned not simply to record it but to present it in some sort of meaningful way what you're looking at
And by noticing that the products that we make in our economy are crystals of imagination, we can interpret important economic processes. So we can reinterpret the economy based on the idea that products are made of crystallized imagination. So as an example, let's take some data from the Observatory of Economic Complexity, which is a data visualization engine that I created with my team
One of the things they questioned was, "What would Jesus drink?" And they went through the Bible and reinterpreted the Bible. We call this revisionism. But they decided that, because they were teetotalers, therefore Jesus had to be one as well.
think about the amount of thought and ability that relatively simple tools and not high tech skills um enabled somebody to do in reinterpreting a book uh chapter in that way I don't know Sarah or Diana do you have reactions to that do you think is that a either a faithful um reconstruction of what we what we heard in the book or uh or do you agree
the chapter that thing about the you know after the death that's not in the book these are things she went and found and then kind of reinterpreted uh what it was this is one of the chapters that Diana edited harshly on me um she knows um all the pieces that that have been added to it but what were what were your reactions to uh the retelling in video
So also provide some space and grace just because they are a "quote-unquote" student. So different ways of understanding and reinterpreting what does this kind of commitment, mission, alignment, right?
I only have the images that exist of her as they exist of her. So it was about me reinterpreting them and trying to make it look like a stained glass window. And the thing about stained glass windows is there's always a sense of sacredness.
We always talk about creativity and how like it's important, because I love being creative. I love looking at classic and reinterpretting into a more modern way of, fun way, of eating it. But I also think that sometime a good like simple chocolate chip cookie is always a winner.
And you can habituate yourself to reinterpreting it.
And every time whoever sang it would reinterpret it and Stagger Lee gets scarier and scarier.
So they're not able to make that bridge and reinterpret this very question in a more specific fashion.
It's like working at McDonald's, and going, wow, I'm going to make you tacos here. So the ones that are left are left to be reinterpreted.
it is an effort by the Chinese intellectuals to reinterpret Chinese classical tradition in order
They are alive and it's up to us to reinterpret them for a new time.
that they could take it and take it from you and reinterpret it in their own vision.
And the invention side is the understanding and the reinterpretation of scientific or technical data.
It's like working at McDonald's, and going, wow, I'm going to make you tacos here. We're of the culture, so we're reinterpreting, but also we're recreating our versions of the culture.
This intellectual and cultural metamorphosis is about this process of reinvention of Chineseness and reinterpretation of the Chinese classical tradition.
they're all very principle-based notions that are intended to be reinterpreted every single generation.
So in this show, you bring this robust reinterpretation to the role.
As we get older, we reinterpret the past.
But instead acquire a completely new set of values and parameters to reencounter and reinterpret these common events, interactions,
Like this is a Jim Steranko Hulk annual number one that we reinterpreted.
bundle and twist around and goes back into your skull and it gets reinterpreted into something else so there's something about your brain that
Nick Mason: Um, actually I love reinterpretations of it.
So there's lots of different ways to interpret, reinterpret, and process this.
But the idea of this global Israeli food going to different places and being sort of reinterpreted is what I think makes it modern.
This means x, this means y, and reinterpreting some of the more what are read as anti-gay passages.
So if your positive reputation is your stored goodwill with others, which then causes them to reinterpret what you
Well, I mean, I certainly am arguing for a reinterpretation.
Some of them are traditional, some of them are my reinterpretations.
Especially "Comfortably Numb." I'm curious if you've heard any of them and whether you like listening to reinterpretations?
And do a brined chicken breast on top of stewed chicken with beautiful clean vegetables around it and sort of reinterpret and re-envision that food.
not there to be there at this point you're there because you want to be there so we like to reinterpret old
in relation to their new understanding, and then we go through 2000 years of reinterpretation of who Jesus was based on the scripture, et cetera. So it's an active, vital text that people
Starting in the late 18th century, and then going through up until the Civil War, abolitionists start reinterpreting
And I think this has to do with self definition and how we always want to be aware of how we might change our definition or reinterpret it,
So when we're feeling awkward, we're saying, we should reinterpret that.
as the next step in our history, something that would be both the sort of accumulation of our past, but a reinterpretation that would feel new,
Because, of course, Chinese intellectuals would understand immediately that this is a reinterpretation
And I uploaded this medley of '80s-- you know, just like we just did, these '80s hits reinterpreted as ragtime piano.