UPDATE 9/24: After this meme, a similar one cropped up — institutional memory on Twitter is short — called #aftersex. You get the idea. 3wordsaftersex, by the way, is still being tweeted, months later. _____________________ ORIGINAL POST: If ever there was a meme made for Twitter it was #3wordsaftersex (yes, that’s right, “three words after [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Twitter-Perfect Memes: #3wordsaftersex and #3breakupwords
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 28th, 2009
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Tags: Digital Culture/Industry, meme, social networking, twitter 
No Comments »ABC’s OOPS! Ugly Betty “Series” Finale?
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 26th, 2009
UPDATE 4/14/10: Ugly Betty‘s real finale was tonight. Here is my post with thoughts on its conclusion. UPDATE 1/30/10: Ugly Betty‘s fourth season will be its last, having been canceled and will be airing its series finale this spring. Meanwhile, it appears the cast is in demand, so we’ll be seeing them all again! Check [...]
YouTube: Video Effectively Integrated with Google News
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 23rd, 2009
So I’m a little late with this, but I hadn’t realized how seamlessly Google was integrating news video into Google News search results and on the homepage. If they could somehow convince major content providers to regularly and quickly post video to YouTube it could provide another way to monetize the site. The problem is [...]
Not Your Tween’s High School Musical
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 21st, 2009
If the creators keep things strange, Glee could be a great show. (Grade: B+) Twitter was all abuzz Tuesday night after Adam Lambert proved Kris Allen is about as interesting as a country biscuit. After Allen put America to sleep, we awoke to Fox’s latest bit of derivative television: Glee. Glee follows the struggles of [...]
Casting Dr. King: Who Will Play Martin?!
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 19th, 2009
UPDATE: Apparently some King heirs are disputing the holder of the estate’s legal authority over the rights to Dr. King’s story. Dreamworks, for now, is working on a solution. Cinematical reports that Steven Spielberg has nabbed the rights to a full-scale biopic, a first, of Dr. Martin Luther King. Not a guaranteed slam dunk to [...]
Breaking: Pandora Great for Dilettantes!
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 16th, 2009
I normally don’t write about music because frankly there many, many more people who know more about music than I do. But this post is sort of new media/visual culture-adjacent. I was listening to Arvo Part’s “Fratres for violin and piano” (1980 recording with Martin Roscoe and Tasmin Little) on iTunes, and I realized how [...]
Money Money Money: Slumdog Millionaire Still in Theaters
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 14th, 2009
UPDATE: Two weeks after this post, Slumdog closed in theaters; it made about $10 million more in those two weeks (if you believe, BoxOfficeMojo). Now if only those kids can get paid! Just browsing BoxOfficeMojo, found out Slumdog is still in theatres (where?) and got an update on all the piles and piles of money [...]
A Few Good Movies Amidst Lots of… Well…
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 13th, 2009
Yes, YouTube has been slow on getting premium content, and what they do have in TV and movies is mostly crap. But I was surprised after visiting YouTube’s movie section for the first time in a long while how many little gems they have. Sure there are some recent not-so-horrible films like The Mod Squad [...]
Know Your Movie Arithmetic
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 13th, 2009
Calculate whether or not you should see a movie I am smart enough to know numbers are just as fallible and slippery as opinions, but I’m coming out as a closet numbers-fetishist. I love polls. Statistics, graphs and charts are sexy. I am also know that movies are expensive these days, a serious investment for [...]
‘Star Trek’ and Millennial Aesthetics
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 9th, 2009
UPDATE: BoxOfficeMojo and other sources now reporting that Star Trek took in $72.5 million domestically and $35.5 million abroad, less than X-Men Origins: Wolverine, but still a good starting point. Next week will be key. So last week I pop-conjectured that Star Trek might not do as well as Wolverine, since Wolverine, as the tale of [...]
This Old French House: Summer Hours review
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 8th, 2009
Summer Hours (dir. Olivier Assayas) Summer Hours tackles surprisingly rich themes for its superficially stereotypical setting and concerns. (Grade: A-) The marketing for Summer Hours traffics in well-worn French clichés: a summer house in the south, plenty of wine, and well-aged French people with useless jobs in the arts, academy and design. There are museums. [...]
“30 Rock:” Canny Product Placement/ Cross-Promotion!
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 8th, 2009
UPDATE: 30 Rock continued the “Dealbreaker” storyline in this week’s episode, “Kidney Live!,” and carried it to its hilarious extremes! 30 Rock has to be the most innovative and complex comedy on network TV these days. And not only for Tina Fey’s quirky, hilarious dialogue. Tonight the show unveiled a storyline involving a catchphrase — [...]
Online Television, Web Serials Primer – Introduction (Part 2)
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 7th, 2009
DISTRIBUTION AND EXHIBITION: Where the Shows Go Web serials are also experimenting with distribution and exhibition online. The main debate centers on how to showcase the show, how people find it. This typically involves using either a video hosting site [...]
Online Television, Web Series Primer – Introduction
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 6th, 2009
UPDATE!: I’ve updated the following post in a clearer format with better information on how the market works. Please see this post: “What is a Web Series?” ORIGINAL: I wrote this primer on made-for-online TV serials for a seminar here at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania to orient myself [...]
Recession Film Formula: Mad Men
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 6th, 2009
Angry Men Helm This Year’s Breakout Hits By Aymar Jean Christian Summer movies are upon us, and with a full five months of blockbusters, we’re beginning to see what a hit is in this economy. Let’s take note of the breakouts so far: Knowing, Paul Blart: Mall Cop, Taken,Fast and Furious, and now Wolverine. Notice a trend? All have [...]
Black Vloggers article LIVE
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 5th, 2009
UPDATE: I’ve since been writing on black web series, black distribution of online video, and specific shows. For all new posts, see my web series page. Vlogging While Black A few black vloggers are beginning to make a splash on the scene. But it doesn’t mean it’s easy. “YouTube is very, very white,” explained Tonya, [...]
Article coming: YouTube and Vlogging
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 2nd, 2009
UPDATE: Published article is out. I shouldn’t really be blogging right now because I have a lot of work to do! Just to wanted to direct you all to TheRoot.com, where, sometime this weekend or at least by Monday, an article I wrote on YouTube’s black vloggers will appear! The quotes from the performers are [...]
