Just because...

I'm pretty sure that no one reads this, but here are some music videos with some awesome songs.


Megan Washington performing "Underground"


Yeasayer - just a live mix of songs


This isn't a video, but I really like this song.


I find this to be a neat use of Regina Spektor's "On the Radio". Blimvisible made the video and another really nifty video of hers uses Regina Spektor's "Us"...

The Evolution of Memes

The Evolution of Memes




Hello all! This is my final version of my project video. I hope that I explained what exactly is a meme, gave a few examples, and then illustrated, perhaps, how the new media on the internet have allowed for information to disseminate faster than ever before, for memes to spawn and spread, and also allowing some incremental increase in control over what idea will become a meme for the "average joe".

Draft the 4th

I really like the last bit that I changed. The video has been rearranged a bit and edited. There will be a bit more editing before midnight. Methinks the Kenny Glen part might say goodbye. Let me know if anyone has any comments/insights/questions.

Did we need a third draft?

This is almost the same as the previous vid, just cleaned up a lot and with some extra audio and a few visuals added. I might try to shorten it and tighten up some of the nuts and bolts of meme creation... perhaps talking about things like the Amazon fail incident, just walking through that really quickly, a viral vid, and leaving lolcats. we'll see. The thing is, there is no magic recipe for creating a meme. They happen. Some things will make memes more likely to become viral memes than other, less infectious, memes. hrmm...

The 2nd Draft

Here lies the second draft of the final project.

Soon to be sacrificed once more to the internet re-editing gods.

Anyways, here is the 2nd draft of my vid. Comments are always appreciated.

My thoughts/questions - I'm not sure how much I like the music or my voice editing over certain parts and am also unsure about the value of the long introduction to the idea of memes. Any suggestions or comments on any part of the video, especially the paris analogy, would be greatly appreciated.

I think I will let the video be for at least one day and then review it and begin to rip it apart once more.

Thanks all!

p.s. I love the rain!

For the Next Video

So! I have some feedback for my next video. We were sitting in class today and going over videos and throwing around ideas... For my own project, I need to do more of an ethnography and tell at least one really good story. I'm thinking that what I want to do is cut out the Paris example and all of that. Then I want to fill in with lolcats as an example of a really good meme that can lead in to how they became so big, how they are everywhere, Icanhazcheezburger, and then activism with perhaps a tie with Kenny Glen and the angry lolcats. Methinks this could make the meme idea better and also keep me away from the Chocolate Rain/Tayzonday story that just annoys me (the song gets stuck in my head, and I really really really don't like that).

General notes: I need to simplify a bit and then perhaps condense my argument and make my argument louder through the use of simplification and the meme examples.

Hrmm...

Any comments/help that anyone can offer me would be greatly appreciated! oi

Video... again

That should work now. I also edited in the correct link on the previous post. *sigh*