Audreys

ds106 assignment on Triple Trolling.

Image: Audrey (Japanese comedians)
Quate: Audrey Hepburn
Signiture: Audrey Wells

I put triple Audreys in a picture together. The man on the right side looks boastful but he is not actually. The comedian Audrey got popular very quickly because they came in the second at Manzai 1 (M1) grand prix in 2008.  They have appeared on the TV shows every day since the success of M1. Audrey became one of the most popular comedians in Japan. But they did not change their style and have been trying to keep themselves as their ideal comedians. Audrey is modest as a comedian and it is a key of thier popularity.So I think the quote from Audrey Hepburn would fit to them. The signature Audrey is from Audrey Wells who is an American screenwriter, film director, and producer.

Timmmmyboy

Timmmmyboy http://www.timmmmyboy.com/2011/02/we-are-all-artists/

In a lecture, Tim Owen is talking about his own idea about being an artist.
He believes everyone could be an artist and many of them do not realize this fact.

The environment around us is full of artistic things. He mentions "creativity is not inheritance."His main idea is that we can learn how to create. According to Timmy, ds106 provides us the opportunities to improve our creativity through various assignments.

I like Tim’s idea. Everything could be an art, and everyone has an ability to create.

Tim says "people are more creative when they are hungry." This phrase reminds me the phrase from Steve Jobs: "stay hungry, stay foolish."

It is true that satisfied people hardly create something new. The people with great creativity and the artists whom Tim is talking about are always looking for new ideas like Steve jobs. Therefore, I want to stay myself hungry in order to be sensitive to things around me.

Midterm Exam

CIS class is now focusing on Degital Story telling.


Image: Anti Tennis by cogdog through CC liscening.

The phote above is the example of  a Cropped Photo story. The purpose of this assignment is to change, alter and enhance  the original sign and then create the cropped meaning.

This sign origibnally says "No Canada Tennis Parking." The author gets rid of the word "Parking" and he makes it anti tennis sign in Canada.

http://ds106.us/2011/06/24/triple-troll-attack-go/

Another assignment is to put triple different things together in a photo.

This photo above is by Darth Ba'al. He put a line from Star Wars, a character' name from Harry Potter, and an actor from Star Trek.

This is the video of Star Wars from YouTube.

Practice

Practice:

Image: Ella the Snow Dog by  jpctalbot through CC licensing.

FANS

As I explained in last post, the development of the internet created new pop culture, video sharing. YouTube and ニコニコ動画 would be the pioneers of this field. These video sharing sites have provided many people with the place to show their talents to a lot of audience all over the world. Therefore, especially YouTube has become the good place to dig up new talents who used to be an amateur. Furthermore, most these newcomers gained their fame by covering famous songs. It means that fans become professional through social media.

I would like to introduce two examples of fans on YouTube.

The first one is Nick Pitera. Nick is a bif fan of Disney films, so he has posted many cover songs of the Film on YouTube since 2006. After graduating University, he is working at Pixer now. I put the most famous his video, the cover of “A Whole New World” from Disney’s Aladdin.

If you are interesting in him, you can see more video from his channel!
By the way, he is also famous in Japan. His jaw line is kind of charming, so some Japanese fans call him “アゴジン.” (アゴ means jaw in Japanese and it puns Aladdin.)

The second example is 2CELLOS.

2CELLOS are Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser. They are from Croatia. The two were discovered after uploading a music video of their cello-only cover of Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" to YouTube. Their video made over 5 million hits in less than 3 months on YouTube. This achievement let them to sign to Sony Masterworks, and then made debut in 2011.

The development of the internet has created new pop culture, video sharing and given meny people places to flourish.This movement would get a boundary between professional and amateur more ambiguous than before. Video sharing sites are not only pop culture but also the place to influence one's future.

POP CULTURE

Pop culture (popular culture) is defined as youth culture that is loved by the mainstream. In Japan, pop culture tends to mean animation, games, and comics. Antonym for pop culture would be high culture which includes classic music, art, and something requires education in order to understand them.

Formerly, high culture used to be for only bourgeoisies or nobility who had a good education. For example, you needed knowledge of sonata form to enjoy classic music. Contrary to high culture, everybody could enjoy pop culture without education or particular knowledge. However, in 20^th century, as the people have begun to have power, the definition of culture also changed. The number of the people with education increased, and then high culture gradually opened to the public. In addition, the development of mass media or technology of mass production made high culture more familiar to the people than before. We can see the famous paintings through the posters, and CDs, TVs, and radios provide us opportunities to listen music. High culture has assimilated to pop culture like.

The development of the Internet is also a key factor to connect the people with high culture, and also they create new pop culture. You Tube and ニコニコ動画 developed the concept of video sharing.

Social Networks

What is social network? If I ask so, many people would think of facebook, twitter, or mixi. Social network basically is defined as the communication service that helps people to communicate each other through the internet. Actually, I am a facebook user and enjoying my friend’s posting and photos. Let me focus on facebook and explain its history briefly.

According to “The History of the Internet a Nutshell,” facebook was launched in 2004 mainly by Mark Elliot Zuckerberg. At the first time it was targeting to college students, and then it was opened to the public in 2006. Facebook has more than 750 million active users now.

Then, let’s focus how facebook is different from other social networks.  

First, how facebook is different from twitter? For instance, although facebook users become “friend” with each other’s permission, in twitter people can connect other users one-sidedly. It means that we can follow other’s twittering without permission. Therefore, users would connect to even a passer-by if the person twitters interesting information for him. This characteristic suggests that twitter fits to provide information rather than communicating. How about mixi and facebook? Facebook and mixi have many similarities, yet one of big differences between them could be that facebook requests its users to use their real names. The system with real names enables its users to bring their real community to social network as it is. Therefore, the services provided by facebook are more realted to user’s daily life than that of mixi. I do not mean that real name system is superior to the anonymous one.  However, it is clear that  facebook meets needs of many people in term of communicating ;therefore, it has been able to succeed as one distinguished social network.

 I put one link about the conflict about the right to remain anonymous on the internet in Japan.

http://seetell.jp/en/18117

This article provides you an opportunity to think about privacy on the internet.