To tell you the truth I rarely watch viral videos on YouTube. A: because I don't like to watch others pain or embarrassment and B: because the videos usually aren't that funny to me. So with the latest assignment being Know Your Meme...I felt like a fish out of water. When I clicked on the homepage I realized that in the entire archives I might have only seen a handful of the videos! So I started searching thru the homepage until I found one that peaked my interest...
Interior Semiotics is the video I found. It's a viral video that hit YouTube as a Shock Avante-Garde Performance. It touched a cord with me because I HATE the hipster movement in art...I lived in Chicago for a year and went to 3 hipster performances. I honestly feel that these teenager and college students have no idea the actual history behind what makes their work possible or plausible. Rubbing yourself with old spaghetti o's while reciting badly written poems backwards and forwards doesn't symbolize adolescent freedom to me...it represents you have not enough to do in your own life.
Take a look at the video with care...it became viral because of the obscene nature of the story, reminscent of "Two Girls, One Cup", the girl wants to shock you- while not explaining the root of her story. For those non art majors who don't understand the origins of shock hipster...it's a viral best seller.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Re-Release of Ico & Shadow of the Colossus
I looked online at Kotaku today and I was met with the some superb news. The re-release of Ico & Shadow of The Colossus for PS3! There is nothing better than being able to view old classics remastered in HD. Again, it will be released in the original Japanese version as well as in English.
Knowing that there have been a slew of re-release promises for the PS3, I had actually already entertained the idea of Colossus coming out again. Even for PS2 graphics Colossus is a beautifully rendered game. I remember at that time thinking, "How can games get more beautiful than this?!" Colossus was also my first action/adventure/puzzle game I ever played so it has a special place in my heart.
I feel like the re-release of old PS2 games is a very smart idea for its creators. Gamers have nostalgia and I feel would be very likely to pick up what was already a beautiful, well-engineered game and have a second go at it in HD on the PS3.
Bravo!
To see clips of Ico & Shadow of the Colossus in HD, click below:
Release of Ico & Shadow of the Colossus
Knowing that there have been a slew of re-release promises for the PS3, I had actually already entertained the idea of Colossus coming out again. Even for PS2 graphics Colossus is a beautifully rendered game. I remember at that time thinking, "How can games get more beautiful than this?!" Colossus was also my first action/adventure/puzzle game I ever played so it has a special place in my heart.
I feel like the re-release of old PS2 games is a very smart idea for its creators. Gamers have nostalgia and I feel would be very likely to pick up what was already a beautiful, well-engineered game and have a second go at it in HD on the PS3.
Bravo!
To see clips of Ico & Shadow of the Colossus in HD, click below:
Release of Ico & Shadow of the Colossus
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
Interview: No Mimes Media Welcomes You to the Wonderful Worlds of Transmedia
Whoa, check this out...these are new interactive ARG games that seem, well, really complicated and really cool all at the same time. I'm not sure why Cisco did this for it's employees but I think more companies (and even schools) should create these interactive games.
Make sure to watch the video.
Interview: No Mimes Media Welcomes You to the Wonderful Worlds of Transmedia
Make sure to watch the video.
Interview: No Mimes Media Welcomes You to the Wonderful Worlds of Transmedia
The Threshold: Case Study from No Mimes Media on Vimeo.
YouTube Fangirl
Thanks to my Media Arts and Game Design class at my university I have discovered an informative site called TubeFilter . This site basically archives all the newest goings on on the web and Youtube on its homepage. I was scanning the articles and found one that really grabbed my interest.
The article is called The Web Series Identity Crisis and it talks about using YouTube as a way of income and if that process is truly legit. I take the side of the writer, Marc Hustvedt, and say "Of course it's legit!" The people of Youtube are completely innovative. They took something so new at the time, put up their own little personal videos, pulled their viewers in, and made it their life. Anyone who says they suck, like the msn article "YouTube Stars Make Money- But Why?", has to just be jealous. Sure Fred is annoying and The Annoying Orange is even more annoying (and let's just say I wouldn't be caught dead watching them) But come on! These people turned on their camera for fun one day in 2006. FOR FUN. And then built their life around it by 2010! That's 4 years of hard work. I've been watching YouTube since 2005 and I still have yet to post a video...
I believe that these people are the foundations of interactive web media. It doesn't have to be just the people who are partnered and making money...any one who has ever uploaded a video to YouTube is part of one of the biggest phenomenon of this decade. Who could have dreamed that viewing any person at any time in any place in the world would ever be available? That's what YouTube is- a community of millions of people watching other people's lives unfold. Some still do it for fun, some do it for laughs or advertising, and some do it now as their careers. It's a beautiful thing, made possible even by the very people who are now complaining about these "paid performers".
All I can say is YouTube is one of the best artistic outlets available and an artist needs to make money. :) So to all the musicians that were discovered, all the comedians that got names, and to the channels that got partnered...BRAVO!
My favorite money-making YouTube Star:
Community Channel : How can you resist watching, no matter how popular she has gotten!?
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The article is called The Web Series Identity Crisis and it talks about using YouTube as a way of income and if that process is truly legit. I take the side of the writer, Marc Hustvedt, and say "Of course it's legit!" The people of Youtube are completely innovative. They took something so new at the time, put up their own little personal videos, pulled their viewers in, and made it their life. Anyone who says they suck, like the msn article "YouTube Stars Make Money- But Why?", has to just be jealous. Sure Fred is annoying and The Annoying Orange is even more annoying (and let's just say I wouldn't be caught dead watching them) But come on! These people turned on their camera for fun one day in 2006. FOR FUN. And then built their life around it by 2010! That's 4 years of hard work. I've been watching YouTube since 2005 and I still have yet to post a video...
I believe that these people are the foundations of interactive web media. It doesn't have to be just the people who are partnered and making money...any one who has ever uploaded a video to YouTube is part of one of the biggest phenomenon of this decade. Who could have dreamed that viewing any person at any time in any place in the world would ever be available? That's what YouTube is- a community of millions of people watching other people's lives unfold. Some still do it for fun, some do it for laughs or advertising, and some do it now as their careers. It's a beautiful thing, made possible even by the very people who are now complaining about these "paid performers".
All I can say is YouTube is one of the best artistic outlets available and an artist needs to make money. :) So to all the musicians that were discovered, all the comedians that got names, and to the channels that got partnered...BRAVO!
My favorite money-making YouTube Star:
Community Channel : How can you resist watching, no matter how popular she has gotten!?
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