Pop Culture
Google's Year In Review: Zeitgeist 2012 [VIDEO]
Google’s annual Year In Review report, Google Zeitgeist 2012, is an interactive application allows you to mine Google’s search data to explore the trends of what we were searching for this year.
Read MoreSocial Media is Disrupting Rigid Demographic Marketing [VIDEO]
Johanna Blakley, Deputy Director of the Norman Lear Center, describes how new media is disrupting how marketers target consumers by identity and demographic categories. Blakley declares that social media will dismantle the rigid stereotypes of the old model of advertising.
Read MoreThe Instagram Effect [VIDEO]
Mike Rugnetta of PBS’ Idea Channel examines the influence Instagram has had on photography and poses the question of whether the app is creating an army of citizen photojournalists.
Read MoreThe HBO Go Password [VIDEO]
CollegeHumor offers a hilarious take on password sharing with HBO Go.
Read MoreHow Not To Suck On Instagram [VIDEO]
A clever guide to how not to suck using Instagram.
Read MoreSuper Mario Brothers: A Surrealist Masterpiece
Mike Rugnetta of PBS’ New Idea Channel argues, convincingly, that Super Mario Brothers is actually a surrealist masterpiece.
Read MoreGood Books International Trailer
This Franz Kafka/Hunter S. Thompson-inspired animated trailer promotes Good Books International, a bookseller that donates 100% of its profits to support charitable projects.
Read MoreBob Ross, Remixed & Autotuned
PBS icon Bob Ross is remixed & autotuned by Symphony of Science’s John D. Boswell for PBS Digital Studios as a vehicle for for a PBS pledge drive.
Read MoreThree Little Pigs Coverage In Real-Time Media [VIDEO]
This is both a hilariously accurate portrayal of how the Three Little Pigs story would be covered in today’s real-time media environment and a brilliant newspaper promotional piece by The Guardian.
Read MoreEvery Apple Design In 30 Seconds [VIDEO]
A mashup of almost every Apple design, set to thirty-eight seconds of music.
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