I won’t be making it out to SXSW this week – It just didn’t work out this year. But I have a simple request to my friends who will be there. I’d like you to help me be a SXSW meme amongst each other. The idea of a meme simply put by wikipedia is a “unit of cultural ideas, symbols or practices, which can be transmitted from one mind to another through writing, speech, gestures”. This can be done a few ways.
Writing: When you’re out this week, and I would have been out with you hashtag #sxsw #ws – The #ws for Whit Scott. The search looks like this. Speach: When you’re heading out to parties you should remember as a group to invite me. Please invite invisible me verbally. Here is a picture of Thomas, Rachael and invisible me at SXSW last year. Gestures: You’re all creative, I assume you’ll be able to come up with some Whit style gestures. If I was there it’d probably look like this.
At this point I can’t really get much out of South By South West unless I become a meme. Maybe I’ll even meet people this way… Imagine Thomas Knoll tweeting my hashtag and Ethan noticing it. Ethan asks Thomas what he’s doing, thinks about me, then tags me up for the rest of the conference. This meme can be endless. By the end of the conference, people who don’t know me will think I was there.
In the mean time i’ll be participating in #SXSWSF (south by south west san francisco) – SXSWSF happening now all around us.
I’ve heard you can go to: Temper Trap Expression College 12:30pm, Violent Soho Amoeba records 6pm today (Friday) if you’re actually looking to be around people who are participating in #sxswsf. You can follow the SXSWSF hashtag here.
Everyone loves numbers done visually. They’re so much better than numbers done by just numbers, or numbers done by sound. That would just be weird. This is a cool video created by an agency called JESS3 which, by the way, has a very cool web page. It shows the current state of the internet by the numbers, which by the way – have already changed. We won’t hold that against JESS3 though.
I’m not sure if this ad passes the “Is My Ad A Cliche?” test. I mean, it is an ad for dog treats so it seems like it should pass. Either way, it’s so damn amazing. Advertisers, you’ll get me with slow motion every time – but slow motion dogs?? Give me a break that’s just too good. They love those treats, you can tell. I’m thinking about getting a bag of Pedigree just to give to dogs I see on the street.
This ad comes with a Facebook page (good on you), and a “Denture Your Dog” page where you can put up a photo of your dog and add dentures to it. That’ll be sure to get you to the site where you’ll then send a photo of your dentured dog to your friends, who will then dentures their dogs. Then they can send the photo of Rusty to their family who will laugh all night long at how funny Rusty looks with dentures. They’ll talk about how they should denture their dog Charlie who would look SO FUNNY with dentures cause he’s old and greying. Then they can e-mail a photo of Charlie back. You see how the campaign goes…
I made this of my mom’s dog so she wouldn’t have to ask me how to do it later.
It’s been brought to my attention that OK GO has released their newest video on their website. What I like about OK GO is that they just keep coming back to me. I feel like I don’t have to try with them, they just always appear. This time from my friend who resides on the Internet as @beebsbanter.
If you like the game Mouse Trap or Rube Goldberg Machines then you’ll love this video. Singer Damian Kulash devised this machine with a team from Syyn Labs who apparently worked long and hard to make the machine work. The LA Times quoted Kulash as saying “Its only purpose is to be awesome,”, which in and of its self is awesome.
Here is the first part of several videos that OK GO plans on posting on their site of the making of this video.
Will any athlete who actually thought that Chicken McNuggets were their favorite food while at the Olympics please contact me? If no one contacts me I’ll be forced to assume that McDonalds made this up.
Please pass this along – I don’t have time to forward this to all the athletes myself. Thanks.
