I was thinking about Manovich’s discussion of remixing in “Models of Authorship in New Media,” when I remembered a really interesting example that I encountered in one of my classes last semester. DJ Spooky (aka Paul D. Miller) is a writer and DJ who recently created a project called “Rebirth of a Nation”. This piece is basically a remix of the technically brilliant yet horribly racist film “Birth of a Nation”. DJ Spooky remixes both the images and the sound, providing his own soundtrack. He says that, “By remixing the film along the lines of dj culture, I hoped to create a counter-narrative, one where the story implodes on itself, one where new stories arise out the ashes of that explosion.” To me, this approach seemed very much in line with Manovich’s view of remix. DJ Spooky aims to engage with the film in deeper, more deliberate manner than is implied by a term like “appropriation”. As Manovich says, "'remixing' is a better term because it suggests a systematic re-working of a source, the meaning which 'appropriation' does not have."