Jan. 19-20, 2009: Gotta hand it to the new media tech whizzes to leverage Shepard Fairey’s now famous poster art into a DIY freebie keepsake that’s a heckuvalotta fun. When I first spied the Obamicon look-alike on Joe Jaffe’s blog loooong ago, I shrugged it off, “meh, just digerati doin’ their thing with far more graphic firepower and skill sets than I have…” Then they … [Read more...]
Obamicons, Inaugural Media, Gizmos and Facebook Feeds
Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: digerati, DIY, graphic icons, inauguration, Joe Jaffe, Kids, Next-great-thing, Obama, Obama inaugural, Obama poster, Obamicon, Obamicon Me, Paste Magazine, personalized art, Shepard Fairey, teens, tweens, UGC, user generated content
Pop Culture on Parade: JibJab’s Hilarious Manic Media Montage
Jan.2, 2010 My head is still spinning (no, not from ‘The Hangover’ post)... My brain is simply trying to catch up with my eyeballs in this frenetic musical media montage which salutes the past year in PG-13ish ‘Where’s Waldo-style.’ Reminiscent of Dan Meth’s ‘Internet People’ viral video from awhile back (Dan has several new mashups beyond the stoic squirrel, spoofing … [Read more...]