Ace Ventura Animated Gifs
Happy Friday to everyone out there. In celebration of the weekend, we thought we’d share some great Ace Ventura animated gifs!
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Internet Discourse and Identity - A Primer
The concept of identity on the Internet has shifted drastically since its early days. Back in the first years of its inception, the Internet was dominated by anonymous discourse, an ever-changing landscape of chat logs and static webpages filled with animated GIFs. That world, for the most part, has largely disappeared, giving way to “the social web.” However, I believe that name is a bit misleading - the web has always been a social medium. Social media wasn’t invented, it merely gained a household name. In this blog, I’ll look at some of the ways the concepts of identity and communication over the Internet have shifted and evolved since the advent of widespread “social media.”
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Internet Memes: Jokes You Don’t Get
Tackling the history of Internet memes is a complicated and slightly overwhelming task. It reminds me of Borges’ “On Exactitude in Science” wherein he describes the map of a territory that becomes as large as the territory itself, defeating the purpose of mapping the territory in the first place. Our case somewhat resembles that story because of the diffusive nature of memes and the many hands that have helped to shape and create them. Also, let’s face it, chronicling the history of image macros is kind of ridiculous in the first place. Still, they are still interesting as small representations of popular culture, and so in this blog I’ll attempt to look at some of the more popular ones without giving anyone reading a headache.
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List: Successful YouTube Channels
As I discussed in my last post about YouTube advertising resources, YouTube is definitely the big dog in online video. Soon, I’m going to elaborate on what the YouTube platform has planned for the future as well as my thoughts on the proposed shift in media consumption, but first I thought I’d share a list of the some of the most successful channels on YouTube as a quick way of starting the conversation. These are not organized in any particular way and don’t show every single large channel, just a selection of some of the top performers. For a more detailed list, you can check YouTube’s own channels page or this unofficial list from VidStatsX.
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Resource: Advertising on YouTube
YouTube is a giant in online video. From its humble beginnings in 2005, it has quickly become one of the top destinations on the Internet for video content consumption. Advertising on YouTube can be advantageous for brands because it can reach targeted audiences or simply reach the whole of YouTube. No matter which way you decide to slice it, I thought I would put together a quick little guide to advertising on the video platform for the uninitiated to get you started.
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First Look: Super Bowl XLVI Ads
Super Bowl Sunday: the strikers don’t strike on it. If there’s one event that embodies America, it’s certainly the National Football League’s yearly championship game. I personally enjoy football. I love watching games and playing them (on my Xbox 360), so I’m definitely a fan of the yearly festivities. But, as we all know, the Super Bowl has always been famous for its advertisements.
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Art & Copy: Inside Advertising’s Creative Revolution - A Review
Over the weekend, a family member recommended that I watch at Art & Copy, the 2009 film by Doug Pray. Pray’s film is a documentary look inside the world of advertising agencies, the creative minds who have shaped them, and the world of commerce they have defined over the last fifty years.
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Snow Crash - A Review
The border between kitschy science fiction and well-written literature is a difficult line to traverse. Some, such as Vonnegut, have done it throughout the years memorably and with precision. At the recommendation of a family member, I recently read through Neal Stephenson’s “Snow Crash
,” a book that manages its subject matter effortlessly while presenting a thrilling and thought provoking story to the reader.
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Interactive Media: Presenting a Story
Over Christmas break, I got to indulge in one of my hobbies that I tend not to have a whole lot of time for - playing videogames. I had two blockbusters that I knew I wanted to get through, both extremely different but both released to critical acclaim and financial success. These two games were Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3
and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
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Mobile Campaigns: A List of Networks
If you’re thinking about running a mobile campaign and don’t know where to start, here is a list of mobile networks that you might consider running your campaign on. Here is the list in alphabetical order to help you get some footing.
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