What
this leads me to believe is that one’s own personal StumbleUpon account evolves
over time in a very interesting ways, starting first with some very base
interests, then gradually filtering through them based on what you like or don’t
like to bring you much more relevant, interesting content. Personally, I must nothing but the most
exuberant kudos to whoever coded the site, because that is truly a stunning
feat.
Next
on my StumbleUpon journey, I was taken to Drinkify.org (no doubt referencing
the popular music library program Spotify).
Basically, you type in the artist you’re listening to, and the site
suggests what alcoholic beverage should accompany you on this sonic adventure. The site doesn’t feel totally finished, at
times suggesting things like “1 Schlitz, garnished with an umbrella.” However, it’s certainly worth a look.
Next
I was taken to this:
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| Color me intrigued, heheheheh... I'm sorry for that, truly I am. |
I’m a sucker for
street art, so I was pleased.
Next was a short
tutorial on how to make chalkboard paint (paint that dries into a chalk-able
surface) in various colors. Not much to
say about that, but it sounds fun.
My journey ended
with this:
I have no
words. That looks delicious. Now I’m hungry…
Lev Manovich’s Principles of New Media:
Numerical
representation: All new media is made up
of code, whether it was created on a computer or transferred to a computer from
an analog source. Basically, if it’s on
a computer, it’s new media, and if it’s new media, it’s on a computer.
Modularity: New
media is represented by repeating modular structures on various scales. They can be made up of pixels or vectors, or
what have you, but each modular piece is more or less the same. They all come together into a larger final
piece of media, but retain their individual status as pixels or what have you.
Automation:
Pretty self-explanatory, computers are a great outlet for modern media, because
hey are able to flawlessly handle numerical representation (principle #1) and
modularity (principal #2) because they remove the possibility for human error.
Variability: This
means that because a piece of media exists in one form, does not mean it can’t
exist in other forms. I could watch the
same video on YouTube, posted by two different people. The content is the same, but there are likely
variations, like the image quality of the video.
Transcoding: The
idea behind this one is that since new media exists mainly in computerized
form, it has multiple ways of being decoded.
We as humans assign value to an image on our computer screens based on
what we can see in the image. However, that image also exists as a bit of data,
easily interpretable by a computer that is unable to discern the intrinsic value
we assign to the image based on its content.
Also!
As a last little offering to those reading, I present to you Noah
Guthrie. Posted below is his cover of
the atrocious musical mistake that is “Sexy And I Know It” by LMFAO. However, something you may notice upon
viewing of the video below is that this is actually… *gasp* Good. Yes, Noah is an up and
coming artist on YouTube (recently featured on The Today Show), who I like to
consider the male Adele. His voice is
truly a spectacle in this day of male tenor vocalists. Anyway, I’ll stop jabbering. Here’s the song:
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