Social Media and Art
18 February 2011 | 2 Comments
When I saw the title of The February 2nd New Yorker blog post Does Egypt Need Twitter? , I looked to see if Hosni Mubarak wrote the post. After all, it was a case of dogma superceding the truth, and that was a signature Mubarak move during the 17 days that preceded his resignation. But in [...]
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Social Media and Art
15 November 2010 | 0 Comments
The New York Times just ran a piece called “Who Will Be Oprah’s Last Star?” on what has been called the “Oprah Effect”, complete with slideshow of the beneficiaries of the talk show hosts immense influence over the last 25-odd years. Oprah’s book club did wonders for authors and she became a fairy godmother to [...]
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Social Change,Social Media and Art
8 November 2010 | 0 Comments
I’m always looking at Twitter in that way one looks at a melon baller in the back of the kitchen utensils drawer–kind of like, what else can I do with this thing? It makes the cutest perfect circular balls out of melons and it is awfully fun. And every once in a while when there’s [...]
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Future Predictions
15 October 2010 | 0 Comments
The ad below was Twitter’s first attempt to pitch their position as an “information network” as opposed to a social network. I like the idea. And the video is well executed. But it got me thinking…Is Twitter really just an information network? I do in fact use Twitter as an information network. Breaking news comes [...]
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Convergences Worth Noting
28 April 2010 | 0 Comments
NURSE: @Jess_nurse I’m devistated! What am I gna do? X JULIET: @julietcap16 You need to remember that he didn’t tell you the truth. Do you honestly WANT to be with someone who lies to you? Ok, that exchange between Juliet and Nurse is probably not the Shakespeare verse you remember from your high school English [...]
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Social Media and Art
4 March 2010 | 0 Comments
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storytelling
10 December 2009 | 0 Comments
It all began one night last week. I was in my apartment in New York, feeling somewhat nostalgic for LA, which like some kind of happy-slash-sad drug, makes you miss it. I turned on the TV and surfed. Caught the last few minutes of Californication. Sighed. Then remembered I could watch the whole episode again. [...]
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Social Media and Art
12 November 2009 | 0 Comments
With the popularity of Twitter, Facebook status updates, one expects to see all manner of ideas useful and useless, swirling around these platforms and vying for our attention. so it was no surprise when Mashable ran a piece last month on Twitter Art. The ideas tend to revolve around the age-old putting visuals-to-text using — what [...]
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Old School Film in The New World
27 October 2009 | 0 Comments
I should say first that I have NOT seen Paranormal Activity, chiefly because, well…I’m a scaredy-cat and probably wouldn’t sleep for days afterwards. BUT, that never stopped me from a big picture analysis. Of course the hype everyone is hanging on to right now is the parallel between Paranormal and Blair Witch. And I get [...]
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