9 Crimes: A World of Warcraft Machinima
A song by Damien Rice called “9 Crimes” set to one of the coolest machinima creations I’ve ever seen. Enjoy!
Inspired Viral Video: Black Eyed Peas on Obama
Via Salon.com, I found a blurb about a viral video for the Obama campaign. I checked out the video, and I was quite impressed. The production qualities are high, which is what seemed to impress Salon. But that’s not what got me excited enough to blog about it; what impressed me was how authentically YouTube…
CHI Vs. YouTube: Two Paradigms of Influencing the Field
I’ve been reflecting recently on the Johnny Chung Lee phenomenon. As probably anyone reading this already knows, Lee is the Ph.D. student at CMU whose work in HCI has gone viral. For example, his head tracking trick for the Wii has been viewed on YouTube, as of now, 1.6 million times. What has struck me…
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‘Green’ Design
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So, the fun thing about technology and the availability to the average person is their ability to create “stuff.” We talked in class about viral videos and game videos and anything else you can do with youtube and other online places that create networks. So my question is, wtf is Britney Spears still making money…
Robbie Dingo: Machinima Master
For those of you who enjoyed “Watch the World’s” during Tuesday’s lecture, here are some more SL machinima works by Robbie Dingo. Meteors Masks More videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/RobbieDingo
mad… mad skillz
Emoticon in a view of phenomenology
I’d like to give an example for the last class stuff. During last class I came across one thing; it is about EMOTICON. Emoticon is usually using for instant messaging or email infinitely. As well as some service providers offer a service that converts emoticon expressions into graphic images. In addition, on word-processing program, Ms…
Halo 3 and Machinima: Visual Language as Work in Progress
Quake may be the historical parent of machinima, but Halo arguably popularized and assisted with the creation of one of the first (maybe the first) large and active machinima communities. Machinima historians (they exist, right?) can probably chart the maturation of machinima filmaking using the Halo series as a recurring example. As each game was…
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