Social Media + Performance

2014

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Amateur

Made by Lasse Gjertsen in 2006. Trivia: The drum sequence was filmed in Norway, and the piano sequence was recorded in Italy, approximately half a year apart...

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Workers outside of the US are paid less than $500 a month to scrub beheadings and dick pics from your Facebook feed. Fascinating report from WIRED about the invisible comment moderation industry:

Baybayan is part of a massive labor force that handles “content moderation”—the removal of offensive material—for US social-networking sites. As social media connects more people more intimately than ever before, companies have been confronted with the Grandma Problem: Now that grandparents routinely use services like Facebook to connect with their kids and grandkids, they are potentially exposed to the Internet’s panoply of jerks, racists, creeps, criminals, and bullies. They won’t continue to log on if they find their family photos sandwiched between a gruesome Russian highway accident and a hardcore porn video. Social media’s growth into a multibillion-dollar industry, and its lasting mainstream appeal, has depended in large part on companies’ ability to police the borders of their user-generated content—to ensure that Grandma never has to see images like the one Baybayan just nuked.

(via The Laborers Who Keep Dick Pics and Beheadings Out of Your Facebook Feed - WIRED)

[wired]

Adrian Chen’s must read piece on the 100,000 workers who look at the worst things on the Internet so you don’t have to. 

[i-donline]

From plastic surgery to public meltdowns Amalia Ulman is turning Instagram into performance art. READ

[rogueanddigital]

10 Hours of Walking in CalArts as a man. #women #respect #equality #sexism #equalityofsexism

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Dear Chi-wang

I might be 5-10 minutes late. But I will be there. All my love, The Artist Formerly Known as Zach

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Echo and Narcissus

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twine (echo and narcissus) 

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Echo (Zach)

Act One Act Two Act Three is...pending

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Kirsten Dunst Selfie Short Film Called Aspirational by Matthew Frost

In a short video called Aspirational, the actress and director Matthew Frost pull focus to this weird cultural trend that has replaced those archaic pen-to-p...

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S. by J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst - book trailer

'S.' is a perfect amalgamation of film making and literary creativity. Written by Doug Dorst with input from film producer J.J. Abrams, the book is a story w...

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Echo & Narcissus

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Extremely Public Displays of Privacy

By New Paradise Labortories

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Can you blow out a candle with your tongue rolled?

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interesting article about memes

I got this link through CD Baby. Don't know is it's publicly viewable or not, but the article was really interesting. Hope you can check it out:

"Wow. Scare. Amaze."

https://medium.com/matter/wow-scare-amaze-b68be0518923