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Meme Breaks 1.0
Internet Meme Scratch Attack from jamiew on Vimeo.
Check the tracklist and download the mp3.
From Jamie Wilkinson, Internet Scientist and creator of the righteous Add Art project.
in ur movies haxxing ur eyes
A group of film-makers have discovered a novel way of making films. You might think that to make a movie you’d need to own an expensive camera to film it, but you don’t. Instead they’re using some of the four million CCTV cameras around Britain.
— Channel 4 — Film-makers are using CCTV images - ‘video sniffing’ - to create movies
The Last Guy
The Last Guy, a mash-up of Google maps and “follow the leader” (or Snake, if we can talk super old-school)… The 15 stages of zombie-dodging gameplay takes place in several cities across the globe, which use aerial photography as “levels”.
— Joystiq: The Last Guy gets found on PSN
I love the simplicity of this.
Via: The Global Couch
That Guinness Viral
@Deschatz (the producer)
Wouldn’t it have been more interesting to NOT use an indentifiable brand and leave it up to commenters to debate which of the many likely beer brands it might be promoting? That would have avoided all the ban threats and opened the work up to a wider range of interpretations. Or made many versions for multiple brands, perhaps?
The real problem with this video is that a few people (including me) have their doubts that Guinness DIDN’T make this ad [1] or that they aren’t enjoying the free exposure it gives them. And I’m really not sure what that says about people (me), Guinness, business, brands, advertising, ad agencies, sex, culture, boredom, etc.
Whatever that uneasy concern is, this video is certainly a good ad for it.
[1] We know Guinness didn’t commission it, but somehow they’ve encouraged a bundle of cultural associations that a ‘fan’ has worked to re-present in celebration, rather than parody or with malicious intent.
Source:
YouTube - Guiness Good Times (Unavailable with 182 comments deleted)
Reactions:
Brand Republic - Diageo demands sexy fake Guinness viral is pulled [Registration required]
Feministing - Guinness ad renders me speechless
Meta:
Guardian - Female Chauvinist Pigs
PD #3 — Will Wright On Story Worlds
In four parts: [1] [2] [3] [4] — Part 2 includes the Russian Space Minute - Wow!
A bit of PD jargon to capture the evolution of storytelling media, as explained by Will…
Evolutionary Performatives
Passive –> Interactive –> Participative –> Narrative <–> Generative
At each successive stage, the gap between production and consumption is further narrowed. At the generative stage there is very little difference between the two. People dip back into narrative to put a temporary break on generative feedback loops that are fast spinning out of control. Story-reality-checks, basically.
Thanks to Zero Influencer for the links.
Story Graphs
Jonathan Harris: The art of collecting stories
Denial Anger Acceptance
Clay Shirky: Institutions vs. collaboration
The Five Stages of Grief: Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance
Run Fly Swim
Robert Full: How engineers learn from evolution
The Infinite Game
What we see with the singularity is the idea that technology is accelerating evolution. It’s accelerating the way in which we search for ideas. So if we have life hacking the game of survival then evolution is a way to extending the game by changing the rules of the game. And what technology is really about is better ways to evolve. That is what we call an Infinite Game. A finite game is played to win. An infinite game is played to keep playing.
— How does technology evolve? Like we did by Kevin Kelly
More: The Technium — The Seventh Kingdom
Social Media In Plain English
Social Media in Plain English from leelefever on Vimeo. “Yay!“
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