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sweet.sweet.freeze.pop.

nobody@vox.com(.tiff) — Sat, 23 Dec 2006 03:42:18 -0800

I heart freeze pop!

Less Talk More Rokk

Freezepop

Duct Tape My Heart

Freeze Pop

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holiday.foo!

nobody@vox.com(.tiff) — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 03:26:17 -0800

holiday rudy

Horray for Holiday Foo! The party was kicked off with some delicious eggnog and Keri's holiday trivia questions, followed by a quiz contest hosted by Mena. Once people started to wander out of the conference room, Steve busted out the appropriate gear for some Guitar Hero 2 action on the projector screen. Other folks joined in and we all rokked hard, and, it was awesome.

Thanks to everyone at Six Apart and I hope you all have wonderful holidays and happy new years! :)

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link.to.the.past.commercial.

nobody@vox.com(.tiff) — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:15:36 -0800

avatar identity!

Circa 1991, this Japanese Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past commercial may just surpass whatever managed to overtake me with the Pikachu video. Or maybe I'm just too confused at whats going on to know what to think. I also just found an androgynous avatar image for posting on gaming blogs. Score!

As Onionania said, "That is what Zelda would be like if it was based off of Thriller "
[see: Anil in Holiday 6A vid. for ref. to Thriller]

Truf.
Edit: Anil made a good point. The video is much more Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation than Thriller

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toy.story.requiem.

nobody@vox.com(.tiff) — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 16:22:59 -0800

Toy Story Requiem

Remember the days of Brokeback Mountain? Toy Story Requiem is a considerably masterful mash-up-mix-up trailer between Toy Story 2 and Requiem for a Dream. Saucesome (and also a little bit corrupt).

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g.i.jooooooe.[spoofs].

nobody@vox.com(.tiff) — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 19:35:25 -0800

Show us a video that cracks you up.

Á la style of the recently popular Juggernaut video (which is quite explicit, but occasionally funny [i.e. charlessss noooo!!!!]), these G.I. Joe PSA Spoofs are classics to me. I've watched these vids maybe a million times by now, and may I remind you this was before YouTube. I can't decide which one is my favorite, although 'Body Massage' was a popular phrase around campus freshman to sophomore year.

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pika.love.

nobody@vox.com(.tiff) — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 21:15:25 -0800

I've written too many posts today, but I couldn't help but add one more.

The Real Pikachu

I'm in love.

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guitar.hero.mod.sells.for.1000.clams.

nobody@vox.com(.tiff) — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:20:52 -0800

Guitarhero

Child's Play Funde Razor recently held a charity auction for a custom made Guitar Hero controller (as shown here) crafted by Joel Johnsn. The beautiful mod finally sold for $1,026, bringing the charity's monitary success up to three times more than the previous year. The auctioned guitar, a red and black model with flames, was one of three custom made guitars featured in the event (the other two were raffled off earlier).

All I can say is, it's mad sweet. Someone is going to be one happy camper for the holidays.

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more.books?

nobody@vox.com(.tiff) — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:46:26 -0800

After waking up unintentionally at 6 AM yesterday, I was finally able to finish all of my work by about 9. (*joy*) I zipped my papers up, sent them to my professor, took a shower and made quick plans to head out and go christmas shopping. Seeing as I had been locked up in my room for the past three days with academic journals and Text Edit as my only compadres, I expected that I would steer clear of all things school related.
But to my surprise, I had a sudden jolt of energy to steer over to my local library and grapple some books to read over my holiday in preparation of my thesis projects. Ever since last summer when I discovered I didn't have many books to display in my Vox, going to the library and digging up books to read has become a new thrill for me. My favorite sections of course are the Sociology/Media Studies shelves and some of the fiction. This time, in search for pieces about digital identity, I came up with these books:

Cyberethics
Nobrow : The Culture of Marketing - The Marketing of Culture
High Tech High Touch
New Essays on New Media
The Search for Being : Essays from Kierkegaard to Satre on the Problem of Existence
The Philisophical Works of Descartes (Book 1)
Derrida in 90 minutes
Foucault in 90 minutes

and, after Luke's recommendation

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

By no means have I ever been a philosophy buff, but I am in need of warming up to some theories now in preparation for my paper. Has anyone read any of these books before? Or, for the philosophy-philes out there, does anyone have any recommendations on works I should read that address the extension of identity?
Meanwhile, I'm pumped for books. I feel all booky, and it feels good :).

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remembering.ratatat.

nobody@vox.com(.tiff) — Sun, 17 Dec 2006 21:21:51 -0800

Breaking Away

Ratatat

iTunes on the electronica shuffle is a good idea for pumping out annotated bibliographies about avatars and online identities. My brain smelled nostalgia when this song came on the stereo, remembering the summer after freshman year. I would often find myself driving down 280 with the windows open and the music up high. Breaking away with the setting California sun is something you won't be able to find anywhere else, thats for sure.

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hot.chip.

nobody@vox.com(.tiff) — Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:02:38 -0800

The Warning

New music post! Thanks to Danielle, Chico's housemate, I've come across a most delightful band named Hot Chip. Hot Chip has a lovely electronic tinkering sound to it. Recently their song Over and Over was featured in a Microsoft Zune commercial. While the Zune is pointless, the song is great. So is the music video. It's a must watch:

Hot Chip - "Over and Over"

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