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Three 6 Mafia feat. Tiësto - Feel It (Official Music Video)
Read more . . . →Now for the official video: Feel free to check out the later videos that break down my remix of Feel It.
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Class 6: Privacy and Technology
Read more . . . →Watch: Enemy of the State (Scott, 1998) Reading: Munster, Anna. "Welcome to Google Earth." Critical Digital Studies: A Reader. Toronto: University of Toronto Printing Press, 2008. Print. As I began shifting into my units about copyright infringement I wanted to look at some of the good and bad aspects of technology’s infringement on our privacy. While a decade ago Enemy of the State (1998) seemed a like a bit of a conspiracy theory movie, the digital mapping technology that was imagined ten years ago is now a reality with Google Earth and even Google Street View within its Maps application....
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Coldplay Sucks, But Lady Gaga doesn't - Lady Gaga - Viva la Vida
Read more . . . →Coldplaysucks, but this cover of their songs is fantastic.
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Strategies to Live to be 100
Read more . . . →Incredible study into Blue Zones, areas where people live to be over 100.
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Brittany Murphy Faster Kill Pussycat by Paul Oakenfold
Read more . . . →Brittany Murphy will best be remembered for her role in movies such as Happy Feet, and (especially for me) for her role in this Paul Oakenfold club killer. Download "Kill Pussycat by Paul Oakenfold" on Megaupload now!
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Class 5: Alternative microcosms
Watch: Synecdoche, New York (Kaufman, 2008) My next screening has less to do with technology and more to do with alternative realities and ties up my unit on simulated realities, and representations. I felt that during later parts of Synecdoche, New York (2008) the multitude of actors existing in the same space, but playing people that are in the same room was a good representation of the avatars created in Surrogates and A.I.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogIf you wear this and someone hugs you, that's a real friend. -
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Lindsay Lohan
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Happy New Year
Awesome graphics courtesy of our friend Phil Retrospector Happy New Year Kitteh Wishes you Happy New Year!Read more . . . →
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Merry Christmas from Little Boots
Read more . . . →Little Boots records a special merry christmas song. I love how she made a Christmas video specially for the Internet. Awww
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Class 4: Simulated Realities
While I personally feel that cyberpunk is a very interesting genre because of its depictions of humans interacting with virtual spaces, the only cyberpunk film that I included in my syllabus was the Spanish film Sleep Dealer (2009). ... Digitextuality is an amalgam of this concept, fused with the understanding that digital media is breaking off from traditional media, and new media is being constructed and used in different ways than traditional media was.Read more . . . →Get the tee →Support the blogShips in 3–5 days. The outrage ships immediately.