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Tag Archive for ‘memes & transmissions’

Narratives Crossing Boundaries

Another Comp Copy Arrived!

Narratives Crossing Boundaries: Storytelling in a Transmedial and Transdisciplinary Context

iPhone 5s (Paging Dr. Benjamin)

Consolidating Memories in the Photographic Field (Part II)

Paging Dr. Benjamin.

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy

Consolidating Memories in the Photographic Field (Part I)

Photographs don’t merely focus, but narrow down and even constrict our memories to those moments we chose to illustrate.

Medic! (Also, Call in the United Bunnies Colonial Marines)

Happy Fertility Rites! Happy Spring Bunny Month! Happy Passover! Happy Easter!

By 2179, Humans Still Haven’t Encountered a Species They Can’t Turn Into Coats, Shoes, or Handbags

From Alexander McQueen’s fashion collection “Plato’s Atlantis.”

Xenotransplantation: Check.

“Human trials could begin within two to three years of tissue taken from specially bred pigs to help the millions of sufferers from diabetes, brain diseases and blindness.”

The Latest in “Loose Lips Sink Ships”—Now With More Twitter, Facebook, and Foursquare!

What would be more appropriate in the one-and-twenty than to microwave some war propaganda leftovers and feed our fears over social networks!

Yamashta Kaori

Idoru, More Alive Than Ever

About Cyberpunk avatars, William Gibson, & Japanese Idoru who are more alive than ever.

Blazing Away: Mr. Potato Head Evolved!

What if Mr. Potato Head lived in alternative universes? See Steampunk Mr. Potato Head and Warhammer 40K Mr. Potato Head blaze away!

The Best Tales to Tell, the Best Stories to Write

The dogged meme that “life” writes the best stories, and the best tales are told from “experience,” originates in a confusion of what tales or stories are.

Mashup Culture: The Amazing Aliens Rap

Both Robocop and T2:Judgment Day are terrific movies I’ve watched a kazillion times. But Aliens, for me that’s in a whole different ballpark.

Heroes@Home

Steve Schofield’s photo series “Land of the Free” about American popular fandom culture in the UK: fanboys and fangirls pictured in their natural environment.

Emoticon-Storytelling—No, really!

There’s no medium in which it would be impossible to tell a story, but sometimes it might be just too difficult. Or could emoticons become a native language?

The Latest Internet Meme: “Literal Music Videos”

Make your own voice track to to narrate the visual story in music clips instead of the original lyrics.