If 1977 was the year of the Star Wars cultural watershed, 2007 was the year of the GFC watershed. Both blockbuster and bankbuster, epic stories about the beginning of the end of an evil empire. We’ve probably yet to hit rock bottom and get our Empire Strikes Back. The restoration
Social media has had a profound impact on the way we communicate and network, but nothing will replace the tangible world beyond the cave wall shadows online. Forums and conferences are vital means of information dissemination and people provocation. But how does old-fashioned speaking in front of a crowd remain
I’m astounded at the production quality for some viral video campaigns. Where the Still Free viral used its budget to cleverly conceal a hoax as user generated content, we’re now seeing virals that are epic. Like Hollywood epic. The latest is a compelling single-take tracking shot through a time-slice moment
No doubt the zeitgeist is pretty apocalyptic at the moment. Even at the best of times (i.e. before July 2007) us Westerners can be a pessimistic lot. We devised the perfect anxiety drug and now we’re addicted to this anti-valium, available to everyone everywhere – media. As in “the media”
Google Street View is already proving itself useful as a visual cue for more than just real estate websites and map-illiterates who need a picture of where they’re going to find it. Russell Davies points out that the Street View of the neighborhood he grew up in conjured more than
Time-poverty is one excuse for avoiding social networking as long as I have. Only my resolve to stop being a digital recluse (thanks to a kick in the hind-quarters from Katie Chatfield) has me investing precious free time engaging online, so I’m keen to explore ways of facilitating social networking.
Everyone’s seen the “Twouble with Twitter” video, the satirical video that owes its popularity to its currency more than its actual wit or insight. Slate has done them and Twitter one better by coming up with Flutter – a 26 character “nanoblogging” service with a range of cool/disturbing features. Is
Japander noun 1. a western star who uses his or her fame to make large sums of money in a short time by advertising products in Japan that they would probably never use: Nicholas Cage is a hilarious Japander 2. to make an ass of oneself in Japanese media. Everyone
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