In this remixed narrative, Edward Cullen from the Twilight Series meets Buffy the Vampire Slayer - a pro-feminist visual critique of Edward's character and generally creepy behavior. Seen through Buffy's eyes some of the more sexist gender roles and patriarchal Hollywood themes embedded in the Twilight saga are exposed - in hilarious ways. This transformative remix work constitutes a fair-use of any copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US copyright law. "Buffy vs Edward (Twilight Remixed)" by Jonathan McIntosh is licensed under a Creative Commons BY-NC-3.0 License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. - Find out more about fair-use at the Center for Social Media and more about fan based transformative works at the Organization for Transformative Works. - YOU CAN ALSO WATCH & COMMENT ON YOUTUBE - user/rebelliouspixels http://visionon.tv http://rebelliouspixels.com
Sunday, June 28, 2009
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Latest news from Al Jazeera's Iran desk - 0900GMT 25 Jun 09
looking at mainstream attempting to work with new-media
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Friday, June 19, 2009
Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Building a Roundhouse with woodhenge and cobwood
Building a cobwood roundhouse over a six week course in six weeks, Spring2008 at Denmark Farm, near Lampeter, West Wales Distributed by Tubemogul.
Saturday, June 13, 2009
An anthropological introduction to YouTube
presented at the Library of Congress, June 23rd 2008. This was tons of fun to present. I decided to forgo the PowerPoint and instead worked with students to prepare over 40 minutes of video for the 55 minute presentation. This is the result. more info: http://mediatedcultures.net 0:00 Introduction, YouTube's Big Numbers 2:00 Numa Numa and the Celebration of Webcams 5:53 The Machine is Us/ing Us and the New Mediascape 12:16 Introducing our Research Team 12:56 Who is on YouTube? 13:25 What's on Youtube? Charlie Bit My Finger, Soulja Boy, etc. 17:04 5% of vids are personal vlogs addressed to the YouTube community, Why? 17:30 YouTube in context. The loss of community and "networked individualism" (Wellman) 18:41 Cultural Inversion: individualism and community 19:15 Understanding new forms of community through Participant Observation 21:18 YouTube as a medium for community 23:00 Our first vlogs 25:00 The webcam: Everybody is watching where nobody is ("context collapse") 26:05 Re-cognition and new forms of self-awareness (McLuhan) 27:58 The Anonymity of Watching YouTube: Haters and Lovers 29:53 Aesthetic Arrest 30:25 Connection without Constraint 32:35 Free Hugs: A hero for our mediated culture 34:02 YouTube Drama: Striving for popularity 34:55 An early star: emokid21ohio 36:55 YouTube's Anthenticity Crisis: the story of LonelyGirl15 39:50 Reflections on Authenticity 41:54 Gaming the system / Exposing the System 43:37 Seriously Playful Participatory Media Culture (featuring Us by blimvisible: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yxHKg... 47:32 Networked Production: The Collab. MadV's "The Message" and the message of YouTube 49:29 Poem: The Little Glass Dot, The Eyes of the World 51:15 Conclusion by bnessel1973 52:50 Dedication and Credits (Our Numa Numa dance) The Numa Numa quote is from *Douglas* Wolk (not Gary Wolk as I mistakenly said in the talk).
Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Adbusters V. Canwest - Kevin Newman speaks!
So this guy is the news anchor for Canada's leading media conglomerate Canwest. They have refused to air Adbusters' anti-ads and have been fighting them in court for 15 years. Recently Canwest lost an appeal in the Canadian high court, but refused to report it on any of their TV stations or newspapers. Adbusters drive to "Reclaim the airwaves" is a rallying call for all who cherish free speech and free media.
Monday, June 08, 2009
New eco-village starting in Brentford, London
Around 70 protesters occupied an empty plot of land next to Kew Bridge in Brentford, London (NR TW8 0EW). They plan to setup an eco-village. This will showcase community based sustainable methods of living such as vegetable growing, compost toilets. They in the process of setting up tents and are cleaning the site of rubbish. This eco-village occupation is inspired by campaigns like The Land is Ours which campaigns peacefully for access to the land, its resources, and the decision-making processes affecting them, for everyone, irrespective of race,gender or age. For more information, please visit: http://ecocamp.info
Adbusters V. Canwest - Kevin Newman speaks!
So this guy is the news anchor for Canada's leading media conglomerate Canwest. They have refused to air Adbusters' anti-ads and have been fighting them in court for 15 years. Recently Canwest lost an appeal in the Canadian high court, but refused to report it on any of their TV stations or newspapers. Adbusters drive to "Reclaim the airwaves" is a rallying call for all who cherish free speech and free media.
Tuesday, June 02, 2009
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