So many people consider cinematic remakes as just rehashes or lack of creativity, rather than praising its predecessor.  Take Gus Van Sant’s Psycho, for instance.  Painstakingly recreated, shot for shot, from Hitchcock’s original; if that’s not loving homage, then I don’t know what is.

bryanwuest:

“Musicians make cover versions as a way to pay homage to an artist who has influenced them, the song often changing in tone or meaning through recontextualization in a new idiom. In the Covers project, I perform visual covers of television and audio recordings culled from the 1950s and 1960s American cultural environment. I am interested in accentuating the obvious inauthenticity of the event in order to highlight the constructed reality of what we see, exploring questions of truthfulness in visual representation. Some of these pieces may be taken as an homage and some come more out of a desire to insert myself into an historical moment, to create a chronologic echo.”