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In recent years, Apple and Microsoft have created software tools that empower us to create, download, and assemble music and film, but certain people want more. The "trading-up" version of all this creativity is, "creativity-to-order"; where you pay others to do the work. It's for people who want something more special and personal than iMovie or iTunes can provide, and don't want to waste their valuable time sweating over it.

It's about customized personal movies and music made to order.

The problem is keeping up with all that new music it's tough and can consume an unnecessary amount of time. The solution is to send your iPod to the folks at Activaire and for $170 they will upload 10 cutting edge albums to your machine.

activaire's services

Want to create the ultimate mix for your next party? DJ Will in NYC can provide custom made compilation Cd mixes starting from $500.

Another service, involving far less creativity, but a perfect practical solution for people too lazy to download all their old Cds, comes from Ripdigital. They will do all the hard work for you. For $100, they will rip 100 of your Cds and send them back to you with the digital files.

how ripdigital works

Perhaps you want to make a movie and you want to pull photos, old VHS tapes and other media together into something emotionally compelling? Little Dream Pictures could be the solution, as they will create the masterpiece for you. Of course there is a charge. The price of a five-minute movie is $600. A ten-minute movie costs $900. They will throw in the custom artwork for free.

little dream pictures

As technology allows us to create and store lots of personalized media, our filmed lives and the soundtracks to them, will become expansive. They will need to be managed, organized and compiled in interesting ways. To do this, a whole range of new services will emerge to help us out ranging from high quality photo printing, through to digital archives that can be called upon to display images or movies at a touch of a button.

For the "style leaders", those who are always on the look out to stand out and go ahead of the pack, they will be looking for customized solutions from creative "names"- e.g. vacation videos edited by Spike Jonze's film editor or personalized party mix compilations by name Djs. To make this happen, look for web-based avenues to open up, allowing these creatives to sell their skills to individuals at the luxury end of the personalized creativity market.