Hello Again!

So it has been a while. I’ve had a nice break. The beginning of the semester was busy, busy, busy!
Spring break is over now, and I am writing very late at night… or early Thursday morning.

I have decided to begin documenting my inspiration and my work.
Below is a collection of images that I have found to be inspiring this week. Enjoy.

I found this and automatically thought of my eco-friendly projects for my interdiciplinary studio

My inner child is 7 years old.

but not so true for my mom… she is a smart lady.

I love the Hokusai reference.

I love the brash vulgarity and the humor within this piece.

YAY!!!!!

So, I’m officially done with the Social Media project for my IMS class!

63 Delicious bookmarks
21 blog posts (Although I think I actually have 22)
42 tweets
14 comments (at least)

It’s been a blast blog… but I think I’m taking some time off for the holidays.

I may post a few times over the next few weeks, but for the most part, I’ll see you in 2011.

Video Project

So, today is the last day of class for me. It is also the day that our video projects are due. (Reminder that this blog started for a class). Well, our video is done! It is up on Youtube. Help a girl out and check it out!

Yay video!

Google Zeitgeist 2010

As a self-proclaimed geekette, every year I look forward to the lists released by Google that show the top searches. I’ve been doing this every year since Brittany Spears went nuts. Google recently released this year’s lists, and TechCrunch has been nice enough to post a nice article.

What the freckle are you thinking internet!? Justin Bieber is #3? #3!?!?

I’m embarrassed for you.

Although, good job on the weirdest search queries. My favorite is #5: “why is a raven like a writing desk?”

Of course I’m not sure if people are looking this up as a literary reference or if people were confused by Johnny Depp in Alice in Wonderland. Either way. I like Johnny Depp, Alice and Wonderland, Tim Burton and Lewis Carroll.

But still… Justin Bieber? You should be ashamed.

“U.S. Acts to Quiet Blaring TV Ads. Welcome to the 1960s” Part 2

So, Epicenter just posted this article on the CALM Act.  I blogged about this earlier this year, about how I thought it was a bit silly to waste government assets because commercials are too loud.

Well, as it turns out, the US government didn’t really agree with me. The Senate went ahead and passed the act, which will soon be passing over the President’s desk. I still think it is a waste of time…

Since I posted about this last, I did indeed end up getting rid of my cable, and switched completely over to Netflicks, Hulu, and other streaming media websites. To be perfectly honest, I am much happier without cable! I don’t have a huge bill every month for something I hardly ever used, and the fact that commercials are apparently too loud doesn’t really effect me.

My Dad loves to make predictions about technology. He’s been saying for years that cable television will someday be a thing of the past and that everything will be available online. My grandparents have always thought his predictions were silly… of course now we have wireless internet, video chat technology and ebooks. They thought he was nuts when he suggested those!

I recently heard an interesting factoid (factoid meaning I have no idea whether it is really true, and I’ve never seen any real evidence to support this other than observing myself and my peers) that my generation is the largest group ever to opt out of cable television since it’s introduction. I would say kudos to us… but we’re all still being lazy farts anyway, we’re just sitting in front of the computer instead of the television. Plus, we’ve got the added “luxury” (? whether it is a luxury or a hindrance is a topic of great debate) of being able to take our entertainment with us. (Reference to part one of this post where I said I sometimes watch stuff in my studio classes… only in the background though… I promise I’m working…).

Oh what interesting times we live in. What’s next? Teleportation? I hope so.

OK Go

Thank you Mashable! for this article about Ok Go!

First off, I love Ok Go. Second, from an artistic perspective, this video (as with all Ok Go’s videos) is really cool. Third, Mashable! called Ok Go “YouTube darlings” I agree. I first heard about Ok Go through YouTube.  I think it is amazing how they have had such success by marketing through social media. Sweet.

Social Media, Politics, Infographics

So, if you are one of the three people that has read my About Me page, you will see that I am a Graphic Design student! The absolute RAGE in all of my classes this semester was infographics. I think I made about a million of them. Additionally, if you know me in person, you know that I can get a bit red in the face over politics. (blah blah blah raised by a lawyer w/ completely different political views than mine…. this taught me a) how to argue and b) it strengthened my own political beliefs by forcing me to defend them.) Additionally, if you have been following along boys and girls, you will remember that this blog is for a class over DA DA DAAAAAA Social Media.

So pretty much I like this article, posted by Mashable. It is titled ‘Social Media’s Impact on the Midterm Elections [Infographic]’.

Sweet. You should check it out.

And no, interwebs, I will not share my political views on here. It’s none of your beeswax, and I don’t feel like getting in a fight today… maybe tomorrow.

Don’t Mess With the GEEKS!

Mashable posted an article about how a group of hackers TOOK DOWN VISA.COM! Holy Moly… don’t mess with the geeks. They will f you up.

This whole Wikileaks thing is getting to be a pretty big deal. Anyone else think that it is a bit frightening (and kind of inspiring) that this group of hackers used Twitter and other social media outlets to organize and attack?! What a world we live in.

Happy (belated) Birthday Firefox!

Mashable has written an article that brought it to my attention that yesterday was Firefox’s 6th birthday.

I personally am an avid Firefox user. Some might say I am a Firefox snob. I have been using Firefox for at least the past three years and have never been happier with a browser.

There is rhyme to my reason though, I promise. Firstly, and most importantly, Firefox sticks to the W3C web standards which makes designing for the web so much easier! It’s one less browser that I have to fix bugs in. *cough*IE*cough*. I’m a huge fan of the ability to customize. StumbleUpon is both my hero and my downfall to distraction.

I really do believe that if the world switched to Firefox, it would be a much happier place. Opera can hang out too… and maybe Safari.

Happy freakin Birthday Firefox.

 

Youku

So TechCrunch posted this article about 5 milliseconds ago. It is about how Youku, a Chinese video site, is now worth more than AOL.

Now, I must admit, in the days before I had Netflicks, I would often try to find movies streaming online *hangs head* (leave me alone, I’m a poor art student! I couldn’t afford to rent! Nor did I have access to a car at the time! psh.. shame on you judgmental reader.)

I have to say, I don’t much care for AOL since all I can really remember about them is how big of a pain in the butt they were when I was younger… also all the spam CDs we used to get. With that being said, Youku (in my own experience) is simply awful! The video quality on their site is terrible, and I always had issues with something playing half way through and then just giving up on life.

So basically what I’m saying is…. who cares? Both companies are below par.

Ok, so basically this post just turned into a mini rant about how I don’t like AOL or Youku… I’m okay with this.