“Am I the Only One Around Here With Half a Brain?!”
Thursday, October 6th, 2011Stuff like this never gets old.
Stuff like this never gets old.
Jack Kirby is the undisputed king of comics. Back in the mid-1970s, he created a comic book version of 2001: A Space Odyssey for Marvel. What happens when you blend images from Kirby’s 2001 work with Deodato’s unlikely hit version of “Also Sprach Zarathustra”? The result is the 2:12 pop culture mashup you see here. Please to enjoy.
Check out these paintings by Theo Prins. Hopefully you won’t turn into Willem from Mallrats and you’ll be able to make them work for you.
If you’re a news junkie, and probably even if you’re not, you’re likely to be hearing a lot in the days to come about the Occupy Wall Street movement. Politics of what’s happening aside, social media is playing a big part in this story, so here’s something of a links primer to get you started in case you want to keep an eye on things.
Occupy Wall Street site. (Check out the chat room!)
Search results page on Twitter for the hashtag #OccupyWallStreet.
OccupyTVNY news channel on YouTube.
The official website of the general assembly of the OWS movement.
Livestream page where live video coverage from Wall Street can be found.
Coup Media Group link to “official demands” of the OWS movement.
There’s a ton of material out there — all you really need to do is pay attention to the #OccupyWallStreet Twitter feed for about two minutes and you’ll see links to all sorts of material. In any event, though, you’ll probably want to keep an eye on all this: It’s not just a significant political story, it’s a significant social-media-in-America-today story.
My answer to just about any digital marketing and communications begins with two words: “it depends.” ConverStations agrees in this pithy blog post.