Tweet Legacies are living things. As the world collectively remembers Steve Jobs, many commentators are already starting to reflect on his impact on global technology and culture. It will take years to fully comprehend what effect Jobs had on the world, and what it all meant. Needless to say, he had an impact. When Jobs passed [...]
Posts Tagged ‘fame’
FAME: Kade Style (Anniversary Cut!)
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on February 26th, 2010
Tweet Posted at Gawker; Ronebreak; Crabby; Philebrity; Arthur Kade (with commentary) It’s been one year since Arthur Kade, ex-financier turned cult Philadelphia personality, embarked on his journey to fame! How’s he doing? Certainly, most of my friends still have no clue who he is, but Kade himself says he’s known on every continent on Earth, [...]
Barry Miller, of “Fame” Fame, Decries Fame Today
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on February 12th, 2010
Tweet I don’t get too many celebrity commenters on this site — except if you count the president of the American Medical Association. So it’s no surprise that when Barry Miller, known for his star-turn as Ralph Garcy in the original Fame (1980), started commenting anonymously on my blog, I would fail to notice. Miller had a [...]
Kanye West and the Power of Curating Web Video
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on December 2nd, 2009
Tweet Kanye West just made a film career. Let me explain.
B. Scott Reimagines Celebrity Online
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on November 23rd, 2009
Tweet You’d be hard-pressed to find a web personality more fascinating than the splendiferous, divine B. Scott. Ever since Madison Moore introduced me to the blogger and YouTuber a couple years ago, I’ve been ever more intrigued! Since then, B. Scott’s star has risen. His website has seen its traffic balloon (Compete, Quantcast) and his [...]
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10 Comments »Music Video Remakes: The Video!
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on June 20th, 2009
Tweet I’ve created a short YouTube in conjunction with my paper on music video remakes and their fair use. Check it out! For my written take on this, see my previous post. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AJAfYwzPAg&hl=en&fs=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01&border=1]
Posted in uncategorized Tags: copyright, Digital Culture/Industry, fame, fans, hollywood, meme, Video (Web/Mobile/Transmedia), youtube No Comments »Music Video Remakes: Fair Use (!) and History
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on June 11th, 2009
Tweet So the following post is a truncated version of a paper I’ve written and plan to submit to conferences and publications soon. For an unrevised draft of the paper, click here. For a playful YouTube video I made on this topic, click here. For non-academics and makers of YouTube and other online video the [...]
Posted in uncategorized Tags: fame, fans, hollywood, meme, new media, Video (Web/Mobile/Transmedia), youtube 3 Comments »Fame (1980), Fame (2009), and Fame!
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on June 3rd, 2009
Tweet UPDATE (9/26/10): One year, I decided to check in on Fame‘s B.O., and it looks like it made a killing overseas and pulled in $77 million worldwide, which means it probably broke even and perhaps made a profit. UPDATE (2/12): Click here for a post with comments from Barry Miller, who played Ralph Darcy [...]
