Bricolage

Today in lesson we were given a concept and had to work out what this concept was, i had to find out what the concept of 'Bricolage'. The term bricolage is used to describe a work that is made from combining existing materials, independent of their original purpose. The first thing i found out is how subcultural groups used other items of clothing and used them to promote their own messages. A example of this is punks using dog collars as a status symbol. It was the idea of putting a idea with another to create something new. It was about taking clothes related to jobs or just with meaning and turning them into a fashion statement. Bricolage is a french word for Jumble. 

This then moved on into music videos, a example i used was Jay Z using John holts - I will and Linkin park's numb with his encore to create a almost collage and pieced them together to create a new track. This is called sampling music with his own to create this. This was a example of bricolage. Another thing i then looked into is how the film Moulin Rouge uses bricolage. It brings references from three different original texts which are:
LaBoheme (1897), La Traviata (1853) And Orphues and Eurydice. The ideas spread from characters to songs and created the Moulin rouge text. 

I decided to research and find my own example of bricolage. I found many examples but the most obvious was Vanilla ice's sample of Queen.