Tweet 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 [...]
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
Tweet 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! [...]
YouTube: Video Effectively Integrated with Google News
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 23rd, 2009
Tweet 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 [...]
Not Your Tween’s High School Musical
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 21st, 2009
Tweet 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 [...]
Casting Dr. King: Who Will Play Martin?!
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 19th, 2009
Tweet 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 [...]
Breaking: Pandora Great for Dilettantes!
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 16th, 2009
Tweet 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 [...]
Money Money Money: Slumdog Millionaire Still in Theaters
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 14th, 2009
Tweet 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 [...]
A Few Good Movies Amidst Lots of… Well…
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 13th, 2009
Tweet 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 [...]
Know Your Movie Arithmetic
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 13th, 2009
Tweet 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 [...]
‘Star Trek’ and Millennial Aesthetics
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 9th, 2009
Tweet 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 [...]
