Mixtape Collaboration
Over past two weeks in my Writing for Digital Media class, we have been talking about collaboration. We are exploring how other people can bring value to a project and add to a digital narrative. With the theme of collaboration in mind, I chose the prompt “Make a Mixtape” from Austin Kelon’s book Steal like an Artist Journal . I use the music app, Spotify, every day and enjoy creating playlists. When I create my playlists, I often feel like I am missing something because I only know so many songs. So, I decided to complete Austin Kelon’s prompt with another person. I chose to have them consciously participate and for it to become a partnership. By having a partner in this project, we could discuss together songs to put on the mixtape, as opposed to randomly asking someone for a song suggestion. I ended up bringing my best friend, Emily, into to the project to help me pick a theme and select songs for the mixtape. After a discussion, we decided to make the mixtape