Pop Culture
Axe Anarchy: Interaktive Echtzeit Graphic Novel
Axe ist immer wieder für Überraschungen gut. Am 10. Januar startet die erste “softporn realtime graphic novel” mit User Partizipation.
Wie das geht? Die User können Charaktere und Handlung ein wenig mitbestimmen, können sogar selbst in der Story auftauchen.
Hier ist ein Video dazu:
Auf dem YouTube Kanal können die User schon jetzt darüber abstimmen, welches Mädel die Hauptrolle spielt und in welcher Stadt, etc. das ganze stattfinden soll.
Natürlich gibt es auch einer “Trailer” für die Story:
Vagabond Life: living and traveling in Latin America
It’s a great advantage to have a cousin and best friend who travels a lot. I have spent quite a few vacations just visiting my cousin Gerhard in whatever location he lived at that time.
It’s also always interesting to listen to the stories of my cousin. Travelling most of Latin America, he has experienced many interesting and quite a few peculiar things and knows a lot about what to do, where to go, what to try, etc.
It gets even better now, that my cousin decided to share his travel stories, adventures and travel tips with a wider audience, i.e. everybody. Here is his way of sharing: He just recently created the blog “Vagabond Life“:
The blog offers tips of every sort. Things as in the screenshot above: “The drink of choice in Buenos Aires“, but also “Running in Buenos Aires“, “how to use facebook as a traveller“, as well as simply stuff like “Foreign Currency Exchance“.
These tips will soon cover many countries in Latin America, since my Cousin usually travels to at least 3-4 different countries a year, with Costa Rica, Guatemala, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico being amongst the most often visited.
If my cousin keeps up pumping out about 2 posts a week, as he plans to, this could soon turn into one of the most valuable ressources for travel information on latin america on the web!
An infographic of popular memes of 2010
It’s time to take a look at the best memes of 2010. Rocketboom shows 6 Minutes worth of Memes and on MySpace someone published the following infographic:
Check out more awesome videos on Myspace
I definitely missed some of these, but I guess they are very much focused on memes from the US. I would not want to leave out the #blumenkübel meme we had running on twitter here in Germany, which made it to the international trending topics. It was so popular, that people from the US asked on twitter, what the hell #blumenkübel means…
Happy new year 2011!
Reclaiming public (ad) space
Fascinating idea, even though against advertising, I can sympathize with it:
New York City is covered with illegal billboards and advertisements. One random day, civilians decided to take back the public space by covering over 120 illegal billboards with original works of art.
The YouTube Star called Fred.
This guy is amazing. He is only 14 years old, yet he has more than 40m video views in total. His YouTube channel has been viewd almost 6m times and he has more than a quarter of a million subscribers. And all he does (from the little I could cope with watching), is talk incredibly fast in an artificially high pitched (pretending to be 6 years old) voice about stuff that matters to kids. It’s a show by kids for kids. Not suitable for anyone over 16. But the kids love him. They
“…just think he’s the funniest thing ever [...] fall on the floor hysterically laughing. They’re just mesmerized” (source)
This is what you get, when you let the crowd do their stuff. Would any CEO of a TV station or production company have signed this concept off or given any budget for it? And how much budget would a professional production company have spent to produce these?
It is surprising, to say the least, what gets popular these days and what doesn’t. Never underestimated user generated content!
