Entries Tagged as 'cultural fringes'
.. another random tangent in anticipation of tomorrow’s Indiana Jones release: Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Fanboy’s get their geek on:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFGVzt7c5bY
courtesy of Geekologie.
Note: The initial reviews are pretty brutal, but this movie could be a straight-to-video disaster and I’d still be grinning in anticipation.
Disclaimer: Don’t let the fact that [...]
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pure awesomeness: Que Vuelvan los Lentos.
this slow dance revival/protest has me inspired. being a child/teen of the 80’s my Austin revival playlist will be as follows:
1) songs from any of the following movies: say anything, pretty in pink, st. elmos fire, sixteen candles, or any other assorted cusak or brat pack flick.
2) morrisey or [...]
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so now that i’ve expanded my twitter roster a bit, i’m noticing all kinds of twitter-heads. from a simple “what are you doing”, people have moved on to use the platform in several different ways.
here’s an unstable (literally and figuratively) sample size-up of twitter user segments:
twIDsmentation:
twiIDsters: revealing, unfiltered, if not sometimes scary personal headlines
twurps: [...]
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Graffiti art is something of an obsession for trendwatchers, urban-observers and art-culture freaks. If you’ve seen the headers within this blog, or my flickr gallery you know I’m a guilty part. So street art lovers, digital geeks..check this out. Proving that digital convergence is more than a internet phenomenon, graffiti art hits a [...]
Categories: case studies · cultural fringes · media culturesTags: digital convergence, graffiti art, hack, post-consumerism, street art
… a minor blow to Al Gore and most of us that attended SXSWi, new truths about the internet, google, and a dark and sordid past. No worries for Al, he’s moved on from the internet and is now quite successfully waging a campaign to save the earth. The rest of geeknation, can [...]
Categories: cultural fringes · geekery · info design · media culturesTags: adam rogers, Gary Gygax, geeklove, infographics, nytimes, origins of internet, parody, visual mapping
For all that attended SXSW, perhaps it’s time to check yourself into a clinic. Or to call your producer friend in LA to get on the next Dr. Drew Celebrity Rehab, The Technorati edition. Not sure? Remember… denial is first stage of addiction and acceptance is the path to recovery. [...]
Categories: cultural fringes · geekery · techTags: Blackberry addiction, crackberry, Dutch Uncle UK, email addiction, Rehab, Shout, SXSW 2008, Twitterholic
PSFK, along with Needled, brings us an amazing view into the 3d technology/virtual world and how it will effect our lives and the decisions we make. I won’t make this another monologue about the relevance of Second Life, but needless to say I think both friends and luddite critics sometimes lose point about virtual [...]
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