Tag: Internet
If you’ve been waiting for interesting art within the virtual space since Eva and Franco Mattes re-performances in Second Life, here’s something. Cloud Party is a new, free virtual platform that looks and feels familiar, but remains completely in your browser, without any pesky installation processes. Since the people at Cloud Party have been so kind as to give […]
With so many relying on Wikipedia as the definitive source of “truth” on EVERYTHING nowadays, we often have to remind ourselves that the site’s content is constantly being altered, erased, and reinvented by anyone who feels like it. Now you can watch this reality manipulation in real-time with this interactive map created by California-based duo Stephen LaPorte and […]
In what may very well be the first internet humiliation video of our time, the “Star Wars Kid” video has gained an estimated one billion views since it was posted online on April 14th 2003, a time long before the ubiquity of sharing videos on YouTube had even began. The video, which features a young Ghyslain […]
The most fascinating part of this story about dozens of Alabama artists painting internet cat meme paintings are THESE PHOTOS. For “The Grumpy Cat Art Project,” 30 out of 100 artists and crafts from the Lowe Mill ARTS & Entertainment complex did their best Grumpy Cat art and then posed with them. Stenciled Grumpy Cat by Tattoo […]
What happens when you can’t connect to the internet on-the-go? Nothing, absolutely nothing. Ushahidi, a non-profit tech company based in Africa is hoping to change all that with what they call “a backup generator for the internet.” BRCK is not exactly a new technology, but it’s a great way to use older technology yet much more wisely. […]
Internt memes, by their very nature, are vessels for reappropriation. Philosoraptor isn’t that funny the first time you see it; the humor comes when a meme creator successfully fulfills the parameters of the meme–banal and/or profound observational humor, setup on top, punchline on the bottom–which evolve as the meme propogates and is remixed. But that […]
Today, our favorite six-second-video sharing service has released an update: The app now allows users to film videos using the front facing camera of their iPhone, an option thats been mysteriously unavailable until now. This changes everything, or something. We’ve been looking forward to seeing its impact on the world and the future and creativity […]
One of the first websites ever to be created has been restored to its original state today. Although the website was initially launched by CERN sometime in 1991, it was on April 30th, twenty years ago today when CERN made the decision to make “WWW” technology available to everyone on a royalty-free unrestricted basis. Happy 20th Birthday, Website! http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html […]
You may remember New York artist David Livingston from the time he hilariously dragged a giant, pink, soft, stuffed penis into the New Museum and the other time he hilariously dragged a giant, striped, soft, stuffed penis all over the Supreme Court steps. And now, here’s a brand spankin’ new thing he just uploaded to Vimeo: […]
A new Kickstarter project was launched today for a documentary about Aaron Swartz. Directed by Brian Knappenberger, The Internet’s Own Boy explores the life of internet activist and programming pioneer from his formative years on the internet and involvement in both RSS and Reddit up into his final days of arrest and prosecution involving the downloading of nearly four million academic […]
