Matthew Leavitt

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Archive for September, 2009

Liftoff

The Divorce Photography website set up for the most part. Some test posts that allow my posts to hit all my vectors, which looks a little something like this :
Divorce Photography Website > FeedBurner > TwitterFeed > Twitter (with hash tag of #photography) > Ping.fm > Facebook
It’s a pretty big daisychain, but I can add things [...]

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

Divorce Photography Meme
Patient Zero
- The patient zero’s that are particularly targeted within the confines of my already developed project are photographers / photobloggers / photo enthusists. Using the #photography tag in pushing forward my meme, I am hoping they spread the world, then it catches on to a more general streamlined process.
The Good
- The best [...]

2 Contagions // Week #4

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1.) Add-Art

Summary // Add-Art is an firefox extension that replaces advertisements on websites with art images that are curated. The images that are replaced are updated about every two weeks (like advertisements) , so that users of this extension are experiencing an art view of the world of art instead of being bombarded with ads [...]

Divorce Photography Diagram #3

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2 Contagions // Week #3

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1.) Clive Thompson : How YouTube Changed the Way We Think

Summary // In this inspection of YouTube, Clive Thompson details a video project that a YouTube member named MadV posted which had a sign that said “One World”. This video started a 2,000 reply chain-reaction of short phrases “for your life”. Clive raises the question [...]

Sarah Silverman : Essential Meme Analysis

In this episode of The Sarah Silverman Program, Sarah tries to create a new word and realizes the implications behind that when her friend Brian also creates a new phrase.  Her journey takes her down the road of peer approval. Will her word catch on? Find out in the episode Kangamangus.
I appreciate her using a [...]

ScribeFire Burns When I Pee…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T22VEBznFVo
I read this article today that there was a FLASH MOB DANCE on Oprah, and I was like “wow, interesting”, buuuuuuut, they really do NOT know what a flashmob is beause of this line right here :
“And in order to pull it off, late last month local casting agencies were enlisted to look for dancers.”
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Divorce Photography Diagram #2

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5 Contagions // Week #2

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1.) The Bubble Project

Summary // The Bubble Project is a fun and creative, person-based, critique on Corporate America. What started out as a project that consisted of 15,000 empty voice bubbles (the ones often used in comic strips) and put over advertisements throughout New York City. These empty bubbles were [...]

Meme #2 // Mrs. Jingles Diagram

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