Links and stuff

Here’s some links to supplement some of the stuff I presented plus some more for fun but are also areas I’ll be exploring for my paper.

This video cleverly explains what web 2.0 is.

The Machine is Us/ing Us


These are the threads in two car forums that wound up getting some guy busted for dangerous driving. It can be followed or read much like a narrative, connected by hypertext and supported by various forms of other media put together by those who decided to get in on it, all the while being rather entertaining and very real.

“This is some really stupid driving…”

The original thread

“Some videos…”


Collab

"A full scale audio/video multiuser communication environment. Features text chat, shared drawing, and webcam video chat. The audio/video feature is implemented with Macromedia's Flash Communication Server, while the rest of the application is powered by Unity 2 and Coldfusion MX."

This wasn’t working in class but it should now. Just open it up from the right hand collum and your in it. Still very basic but to me it was instantly inspiring.
The real-time collaboration, interaction and communication seems extremely powerful and as this and other similar sites get increasingly immersive and sophisticated, new collaborative functions will create entire worlds of ideas and ways of working.


wannaspell

This is everybody’s favorite wannaspell, the online letter board. Don’t give up too quick if people keep stealing steal your letters.


Something I noticed is that the web has seen entire new breeds of collections emerge individually and collectively as people congregate over information. Whether it be a favorite top ten or a trivial obsession, music, video, pictures, stories and media of all sorts are naturally created and edited into categories generated by people connected by like-mindedness and the net. Here are a few examples I’ve noticed.

.gif thread. 800+ links to .gif animations provides hours, or seconds, of entertainment. Just press next.

http://www.newstoday.com/pv-an/view_comment.php?topicId=74436&showTitle=1

People playing the theme music from Tetris on keyboard…

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=search_videos&search_query=tetris%20on%20keyboard&search_sort=relevance&search_category=0&page=1

Doctor Who theme remixes…

http://whomix.trilete.net/?wmid=music

Kittens…

http://images.google.com/images?q=kittens&ndsp=18&svnum=10&hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&start=0&sa=N


Browser Based Entertainment

I think this is just a demonstration of the file format .flv (flash video) with some loops, juxtaposing music and audio with video. Interesting enough to be a work in and of itself but either way it’s a good presentation of video online.


We Are The Strange


A feature film made by one guy in his bedroom (with some great sonic contributions I should add by Noise Inc http://www.noiseinc.org/ ) Clearly influenced by the mash-up of animation and video game imagery on the internet and made possible by accessible digital technologies, it’s possibly (another) first example of what is and will be possible in the future of cinema. On his vlog he mentioned that while he was at Sundance, where the film is an official selection, Youtube and other online video companies were the only industry people he seemed to see eye to eye on. Lots of hype and meaningless pictures but clearly there are new business models and creative ideas being brewed for the entertainment industry online.


'Mooninite marketing guys’

The infamous video. A testament to the savvy of modern day marketing. With some for sight they deflected the questions amusingly for the publicity and especially the video that inevitably would be broadcast on the internet all over the internet, ‘viral’ as they say, generating more and more exposure for a hugley successful ad prank and ultimately the cartoon that started it all, The Mooninites.


Some long exposure photography taken of some old school video games. Cool stuff.

http://www.rosemariefiore.com/pages.php?content=gallery.php&navGallID=12