He solicited beats and backing tracks from friends, and he trolled the Internet for instrumentals to popular songs that he could repurpose with his own melodies and lyrics.
The Detroit Land Bank Authority, charged with managing the city's tax-foreclosed properties, will have the responsibility of maintaining "tens of thousands of vacant lots until they can be repurposed, with no funding to do so," the report states.
To be ready for moments like those, I've been grilling more than I need for just one meal, reveling in the convenience of a fridge stocked with cold, tasty meat to be repurposed with a minimum of fuss.
"We wanted to show the collective power these domestic objects can have when grabbed and repurposed with political intent," says Gavin Grindon, co-curator of Disobedient Objects, an exhibition that gathers together tools of protest from around the world.
Meanwhile, other scientists cloned new anti-H.I.V. antibodies found in the blood of infected people, so the grant was "repurposed" with a different goal: to inject genes that code for these new antibodies into muscle cells.
A popular Web site like the Huffington Post not only posts Obama news and feature stories from the Times and other newspapers, all repurposed with snappier, more left-leaning headlines; it also posts slide shows provided by White House photographers, to give readers their fix of inside-the-White House images.
One band specifically that could be repurposed with the 3.5GHz band allocated to the U.S. Government.
Used teabags "repurposed with hope".
Original materials have been repurposed with panache.
Our dream is to create positive cultural change through the right amplifiers, such as celebrity role models who use their influence for good and mainstream holidays repurposed with a #SoSheDid spin.
