Tried to update my pool account with my idea for NMD 205, but apparently it didn't like what i did. SO instead i'm posting it here until i figure out how it works (i must have done something wrong, it shouldn't be THAT hard to post an intent.)
Translation dialect
The idea of this project is to translate text, old scriptures, current best selling novels, ect. into a dialect of the artists choice. Like translating Tom Sawyer into Redneck, which might give it a better taste/feel. Or, if your into making a book rediculous, maybe change Hamlet by giving it pirate's dialect. If you're feeling really zaney, why not try Catcher in the Rye in Sweedish chef! Many interesting and crazy dialects are available, and by studying and implementing this into old books, we can find an interesting new light cast on them.
The precursor i found for this is actually two websites. Dialectizer is a site that takes the websites you feed it and give them an entirely new dialect. Secondly, the Lolcat bible is a translation of the bible into lolcat. So i got to thinking after looking over a few sites, "why not feed this further by dialectizing books?" translations of entire pieces could make at least hilarious changes and turn a book from it's genre into a hybrid comedy. I feel this would be a fun and ambitious work because it will take a long time to translate the pages, but the idea of the outcome seems way to good to let go of.
Score:
First, pick a book i feel needs to be translated
Read the book, start re-writing the book word for word (if i can find a copiable text online, totally do that instead). This is also why the book should be short.
Pick the dialect i dare use
Apply the dialect, removing words and changing words for common used slang.
Save the work on several sources.
Spread across internet.
Rinse and repeat
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Reviewing sites
in a previous post, i listed these sites as go to places. I'm going to give a bit more detail about each.
http://socialhackers.ning.com/ - group for hacking your social environment, by Nick Fiore
This site was created by Nick Fiore for his social Hacker Project. The idea behind it is to "hack" reality with everyday items. An example would be his Toilet paper project, where he printed images on toilet paper and placed them in bathroom stalls. The site encourages people to bring to the table other social hacking ideas, and join in themselves.
www.batteredrose.com - pushing popularity of Emilie Autumn, performer of "Victorian-Industrial" music. Made by Zoe French
This site is a promotion of the performer Emilie Autumn. After taking a look through the site, i decided to look her up and see how she performed. After listening to an original work, i was suprised by the sound she created, mixing a rock sound with a more victorian feeling orchestration. The strikingly different sound at first felt akward, but soon grew into a strong performance combining both sounds.
http://www.divorcephotography.com - focusing on the dark side of marriage, by Matt Leavitt
This is an interesting take on photography, brought on by Matt leavitt. The idea of taking photos of divorce situations is at first a little jarring. Why would you want to, some would say, but the idea isn't for beautiful and happy endings, but you find that this is a viceral point made that divorce seems to happen more often than we realize. After exploring the site, i felt quite pleased with the layout, the idea, and the stories. Postings to this site to help push along it's fandom would be great, as i'm sure pushing with more interesting coverages will help bolster the movement.
http://socialhackers.ning.com/ - group for hacking your social environment, by Nick Fiore
This site was created by Nick Fiore for his social Hacker Project. The idea behind it is to "hack" reality with everyday items. An example would be his Toilet paper project, where he printed images on toilet paper and placed them in bathroom stalls. The site encourages people to bring to the table other social hacking ideas, and join in themselves.
www.batteredrose.com - pushing popularity of Emilie Autumn, performer of "Victorian-Industrial" music. Made by Zoe French
This site is a promotion of the performer Emilie Autumn. After taking a look through the site, i decided to look her up and see how she performed. After listening to an original work, i was suprised by the sound she created, mixing a rock sound with a more victorian feeling orchestration. The strikingly different sound at first felt akward, but soon grew into a strong performance combining both sounds.
http://www.divorcephotography.com - focusing on the dark side of marriage, by Matt Leavitt
This is an interesting take on photography, brought on by Matt leavitt. The idea of taking photos of divorce situations is at first a little jarring. Why would you want to, some would say, but the idea isn't for beautiful and happy endings, but you find that this is a viceral point made that divorce seems to happen more often than we realize. After exploring the site, i felt quite pleased with the layout, the idea, and the stories. Postings to this site to help push along it's fandom would be great, as i'm sure pushing with more interesting coverages will help bolster the movement.
More Contagious media
World of Goo creators try a "pick your price" experiment
To celebrate the 1 year anniversary of World of Goo, Developers 2D Boy re-released the game at a price of "whatever the buyers cared to pay". Boosting sales of the game of over 57,000 units, though many people paid considerably less than usual marketprice. When surveyed, these people who bought world of goo found themselves with two major answers. the first, "we can't afford much more at the time" as the second one was "I own the game already, but i'm buying it again for a different platform".
In my idea, i think that while the danger of releasing a game like this is high, a re-release of a game should be more about delivering the product, even if it's at a much more modest price. Most people won't want to pay 50 bucks for a game they already own, much rather one that came out over two years ago. This i feel would push game sales well enough to help with creating more games. Even Re-releasing older games (in case you've never walked into a gamestop, there are hundreds upon HUNDREDS of copies of old games still floating around) that already exist on CD could spur an increase in buying video games, just because there are some games people love, no matter how old they are.
To celebrate the 1 year anniversary of World of Goo, Developers 2D Boy re-released the game at a price of "whatever the buyers cared to pay". Boosting sales of the game of over 57,000 units, though many people paid considerably less than usual marketprice. When surveyed, these people who bought world of goo found themselves with two major answers. the first, "we can't afford much more at the time" as the second one was "I own the game already, but i'm buying it again for a different platform".
In my idea, i think that while the danger of releasing a game like this is high, a re-release of a game should be more about delivering the product, even if it's at a much more modest price. Most people won't want to pay 50 bucks for a game they already own, much rather one that came out over two years ago. This i feel would push game sales well enough to help with creating more games. Even Re-releasing older games (in case you've never walked into a gamestop, there are hundreds upon HUNDREDS of copies of old games still floating around) that already exist on CD could spur an increase in buying video games, just because there are some games people love, no matter how old they are.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Other meme's to Check out
Other classmate's are starting their own memes. If you liked mine, check out the others!
http://www.divorcephotography.com - focusing on the dark side of marriage, by Matt Leavitt
http://socialhackers.ning.com/ - group for hacking your social environment, by Nick Fiore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrmrEsovyvQ - video by Alex Marquis, great watch.
http://www.amidnightproject.com/umaine - Find out how much professors at umaine make, By Chris Bagley
www.batteredrose.com - pushing popularity of Emilie Autumn, performer of "Victorian-Industrial" music. Made by Zoe French
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywz6rkGaHMg&feature=player_embedded - video made by Gabe Winski.
http://www.divorcephotography.com - focusing on the dark side of marriage, by Matt Leavitt
http://socialhackers.ning.com/ - group for hacking your social environment, by Nick Fiore
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrmrEsovyvQ - video by Alex Marquis, great watch.
http://www.amidnightproject.com/umaine - Find out how much professors at umaine make, By Chris Bagley
www.batteredrose.com - pushing popularity of Emilie Autumn, performer of "Victorian-Industrial" music. Made by Zoe French
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywz6rkGaHMg&feature=player_embedded - video made by Gabe Winski.
Youtube launch Successful!
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
update for my meme: Struggles Continue...
While i'm trying to launch my Twerping Meme, I'm finding this project harder and harder to work on without a COMPUTER... Working as hard as i can to push this project, i basically have to edit the videos and post them, all of which i can do on my computer comfortably and in shorter time than at other places. I played around with different ideas. I liked the idea for short clips based on funny tweets others have said. One site i found entertaining for this was tweetlol, which has random postings of funny things said on twitter. Celebrity Tweet, a site dedicated to the celebrity community on twitter, has yielded some interesting posts, though may not entirely be able to use them, as they usually attain to other celebrities. Postings should start by this weekend (IT sure loves to take it's time making New Media students suffer for their grades). I will fuel this out to everyone via facebook group, friends on youtube, youtube twitter tagging, posting links via twitter, and posting my videos on my blog here. I again don't have much for showing off for material, but as soon as i get my computer back i'll push the twerping Meme as far and as hard as i can.
Contageous media for 10/15
how to make your project an internet sensation:
These handy tips laid down by Hack a Day i found to be in a sort common knowledge, but not something commonly regurgitated in similar topics. Giving pointers such as visual cues to push your sensation, to site hosting concerns, and not to spam your site to inappropriate places. I agree with these actions, and i have been working on taking action towards making a logo for twerping channel and site. Posting followups was another good idea they pointed out. I feel like this is the best way to go about with making my project more out there without impeding on the wrong people.
Taming digital distractions:
This was an interesting suggestion for a few softwares and addons that would help keep you from being distracted in the middle of work. I was impressed with the amount of testing this writer did, trying several different softwares, and naming the top ones. But Like him, i agree it's hard to completely block your wandering mind from following it's boredom patterns when it has them. For Instance, while i've been writing this post, i've booted up Pandora radio, looked up some artists, visited facebook, and watched an episode of 'The Guild' While testing these programs would be a great idea, i probably wouldn't keep on using them, because as much as it'd block me from using the computer, i would find non- computer things to do. Play cards, watch tv, play the X-box, read a novel, cook a meal, all things that come immediately to mind (going without my computer for two weeks i've been finding myself all over the place and mainly scatterbrained all together. When i get it back I'll be able to focus more on what's important, hopefully.)
These handy tips laid down by Hack a Day i found to be in a sort common knowledge, but not something commonly regurgitated in similar topics. Giving pointers such as visual cues to push your sensation, to site hosting concerns, and not to spam your site to inappropriate places. I agree with these actions, and i have been working on taking action towards making a logo for twerping channel and site. Posting followups was another good idea they pointed out. I feel like this is the best way to go about with making my project more out there without impeding on the wrong people.
Taming digital distractions:
This was an interesting suggestion for a few softwares and addons that would help keep you from being distracted in the middle of work. I was impressed with the amount of testing this writer did, trying several different softwares, and naming the top ones. But Like him, i agree it's hard to completely block your wandering mind from following it's boredom patterns when it has them. For Instance, while i've been writing this post, i've booted up Pandora radio, looked up some artists, visited facebook, and watched an episode of 'The Guild' While testing these programs would be a great idea, i probably wouldn't keep on using them, because as much as it'd block me from using the computer, i would find non- computer things to do. Play cards, watch tv, play the X-box, read a novel, cook a meal, all things that come immediately to mind (going without my computer for two weeks i've been finding myself all over the place and mainly scatterbrained all together. When i get it back I'll be able to focus more on what's important, hopefully.)
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
readings for 10/7
1)microsoft awarded patent for P2P DRM- http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/09/23/0036258/Microsoft-Awarded-Patent-For-Peer-To-Peer-DRM?from=rss
Microsoft seems to have found a use for P2P Digital Rights management systems. the patent covers a DRM that covers the P2P networks and uses encrypted public and private keys as a licensing mechanism. If microsoft can actually find a good use for this dying source of data protection, then Good for them. Apple has stopped using the DRM licensing system on iTunes.
2)here comes typhoid mary! - http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/09/dayintech_0923typhoidmary/
I found this piece actually interesting from the medical standpoint, because of the fact that she was throughout this time technically a healthy disease carrier. As she spread the disease among the populous without detection it spread quickly, and as it would seem, it was comparable to a meme. You see meme's spread every day, and depending on how good they are depicts how far they go. Like the recent turning of Kanye West into a meme the night after his distasteful act at the music video awards, he was all over the internet interrupting many different people, from Xzibit to Hitler, to many other memorable memes. The only problem with this is that the doctors, or oppression mary and the meme's share is public eye. The death of a great meme, the Rick Roll happened last year, during the thanksgiving day parade. I know i felt a great deal of hurt as the rick roll was shamelessly ployed for more attention, and i felt it was only destroying the great joke/meme it was.
Microsoft seems to have found a use for P2P Digital Rights management systems. the patent covers a DRM that covers the P2P networks and uses encrypted public and private keys as a licensing mechanism. If microsoft can actually find a good use for this dying source of data protection, then Good for them. Apple has stopped using the DRM licensing system on iTunes.
2)here comes typhoid mary! - http://www.wired.com/thisdayintech/2009/09/dayintech_0923typhoidmary/
I found this piece actually interesting from the medical standpoint, because of the fact that she was throughout this time technically a healthy disease carrier. As she spread the disease among the populous without detection it spread quickly, and as it would seem, it was comparable to a meme. You see meme's spread every day, and depending on how good they are depicts how far they go. Like the recent turning of Kanye West into a meme the night after his distasteful act at the music video awards, he was all over the internet interrupting many different people, from Xzibit to Hitler, to many other memorable memes. The only problem with this is that the doctors, or oppression mary and the meme's share is public eye. The death of a great meme, the Rick Roll happened last year, during the thanksgiving day parade. I know i felt a great deal of hurt as the rick roll was shamelessly ployed for more attention, and i felt it was only destroying the great joke/meme it was.
new youtube channel
the TwerpProject Channel can be seen here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TwerpProject
there will soon be updates to the channel and hopefully more responces!
http://www.youtube.com/user/TwerpProject
there will soon be updates to the channel and hopefully more responces!
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