Stream o' consciousness for July 30th
Stream o' consciousness for July 29th
A Dyna Moe model of media
One of the first posts ever on this blog was a recognition of work by a New York artist and actress who was making weekly stylized desktop images based on episodes of Mad Men.
The artist, Dyna Moe, started doing the illustrations after doing a Christmas card for a friend in the cast of the show. I discovered her illustrations via a fansite towards the end of Season 1. We started looking forward to them every Monday during season two; quietly thrilled for her as she met the show creators when star Jon Hamm was on SNL ; and are now ecstatic to see her creations turned into the instantly-popular “Mad Men Yourself” tool on the show’s official website.
I see this as a textbook example of how the new New Media should work: A fan / friend starts creating an homage to a brand. That brand does not sue or discourage the fan doing unofficial work, even though she might be making a few paltry bucks. Nor does it jump in and try to co-opt, compete or take over. It lets the homage play out. Once it becomes clear that the homage is successful and additive to the brand, it embraces that homage. It then hires the fan / friend to extend that homage in an official way that is true to the brand and the artist.
Everybody wins. Imagine that.
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Stream o' consciousness for July 28th
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RT @johnperrybarlow: The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth. – G.C. Lichtenberg [#]
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Shared 2 photos.
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Really @bluefly_com? Order placed 7/21 and 9(!) sales pitches since then? + sales pitch while unsub? http://twitpic.com/bu8j6 Stay classy. [#]
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Get @seankovacs excellent iPhone Google Voice app fast. It’s about to be pulled from the store: http://is.gd/1Pkrq [#]
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@drnicomartini I learned about it from your post. Looking into it. [#]
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Listened to 23 songs.
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Shared The VCs’ upper hand
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@drnicomartini Who/what is MavTV? They sent me the same message. I don’t get it. [#]
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Made my Mad Men avatar at http://madmenyourself.com. Go make yours! Mad Men premieres Aug 16, then every Sunday 10p on AMC. #madmen #fb [#]
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@jdunck #logansrun never got MST3K’d because it is a Great Film. Or they couldn’t get the rights. One or t’other. [#]
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My Seattle friends’ hot weather reports crack me up. #northernborderofhell [#]
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@westseattleblog Yup. And in turn, a cool rain shuts down our city. All a matter of perspective. [#]
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Anyone have good stats on rural / smalltown broadband penetration? [#]
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Budweiser, Blue Moon and Becks? If Dubya was having people over for beer, at least coulda been @Shiner or Lone Star. #meaninglessgestures [#]
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BHO’s Bud order is self-consciously faux working-class. Don’t fear the frou frou Belgian ale with butterfly nectar! #whatdotheydrinkatluaus [#]
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Despite last two tweets, don’t peg me GOP. Card-carrying member of Equal Opportunity Offender Party. #ironyisdead [#]
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@johnrobinson That’s what I’m responding to. Politico says bud for pres, moon for cop, becks or red stripe for Gates. [#]
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And if we can’t agree of one beer to share together, what will we accomplish? Take up question of bottle, can or draft? [#]
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rt @jimbradysp To me charging for content is akin to movie scene where, after running out of bullets, a gunman throws the gun at its target. [#]
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No traffic in Dallas this morn. Did I sleep through The Rapture? [#]
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Oof. Spoke too soon. [#]
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Listened to I’ll Remember April – Wynton Marsalis
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Stream o' consciousness for July 27th
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@Candyland A little closer to freeway. No house porn, nut there’s a porn studio on Dilido! [#]
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Shared The Pushbutton Web
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Shared The Great Scratch Pad Caper
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"So many people to see. So many people you can check up on and add to your collection." #prescienceofelviscostello [#]
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Yes, Declan Macmanus, you are correct that it’s not very far from sulphur to sugarcane. #fb #mustremember [#]
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@CharlotteAnne @michelemclellan Unless planning on using only for travel, go pro. Air is anemic and less computer for $$. [#]
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Watching "Showtime," MGM retrospective of dogs in movies. Laughing. Crying. Laughing. Crying. [#]
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@Candyland Not a house. A warehouse. Not sure of exact addy. [#]
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A special report on Texas: : Lone Star rising | The Economist http://bit.ly/12DtMd [#]
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@AlexGoodall Auto DM = almost instant unfollow. I come to Twitter to talk to people, bot robots. #TWADMR [#]
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@TheNewsChick If you lived in TX, you’d find that weather report hilarious. Low 90s = coldfront. [#]
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Cancakes: An Idea Whose Time Has Come http://twitpic.com/btac1 [#]
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Listened to 3 songs.
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Stream o' consciousness for July 26th
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I think @bretthoerner is being haunted by the Good Doctor HST. Glad the newsroom rubbed off… [#]
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Stream o' consciousness for July 25th
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OK DFW, here is this week’s complete estate & garage sale listings: http://tinyurl.com/9fofxy #dfw #garagesales (via @mikebullock) [#]
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RT @TheOnion: Why Did No One Inform Us Of The Imminent Death Of The American Newspaper Industry? http://bit.ly/QzcHf (via @cshirky) [#]
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Found intersting / good / real shops and restaurant / pub while running errand in (gasp) Plano. Worldview shattering in front of me. [#]
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Getting up off the floor. There was a Mike Orren sighting north of 635 (via @bradlarock) [#]
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@bradlarock Surely an imposter. [#]
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rt @johnperrybarlow It strikes me that everybody in the Cops vs. Gates (& Obama) Affair behaved badly. But understandably. Let’s drop it. [#]
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If I could find a place that was like Downtown Plano on the shores of a lake, w/in 30 minutes of major city & with 4 seasons, I’d move today [#]
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Sad and ironic. "The future of music" eh? http://twitpic.com/bhawg [#]
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Shared How Much Damage to United?
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Shared 3 photos.
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How am I supposed to work @ office when April is sending me photos like http://twitpic.com/bhllq http://twitpic.com/bhlno ? [#]
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@jiconoclast I have a LOT of ideas on commenter best practices. Won’t claim we have it foolproof, but close. Was going to write a post… [#]
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@jiconoclast … but if you’re doing a roundup, I might send you some notes instead? [#]
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Tip for FedEx drivers. Don’t piss off Mike D!: http://is.gd/1KUmR [#]
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Heil Twhitler: http://twhitler.com/ (via B3ta) [#]
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Pulling stat on comments, pretty cool: We’ve had 55,867 comments posted. We’ve only moderated 268. [#]
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Listened to 5 songs.
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Huxley was right-er than Orwell, he said tweetingly: http://is.gd/1KXXo [#]
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Eminem meets Dr Who meets Benny Hill : http://is.gd/1KY9K [#]
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Bucket’s got a hole in it. Actually my city’s got gerrymandered dry areas. Either way can’t buy no beer. #apttuneshuffle [#]
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"The dollar’s weak, but it’s stronger than me." #thescottmiller [#]
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Without access to my music library for 72 hrs, would likely go catatonic or postal. #mykryptonite What’s yours? [#]
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@blues_traveler honkycrackercool. Like crazysexycool but with more harp. [#]
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What do I do when bored with errands / stoplights? Try to start twittermemes like "What is your #mykryptonite?" Please to play along. [#]
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Good to hear. NY Times: Swimming Bans High-Tech Suits, Ending an Era. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/sports/25swim.html (via @jdlasica) [#]
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Stream o' consciousness for July 24th
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DFW peeps: Where can I find a Hefner-esque smoking jacket on short notice? Need sure thing – no time to troll vintage shops. [#]
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Having first frappucino since the old dog walks, @joosttx. My eyes are all swirly. #desperatetimes/measures [#]
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Listened to 7 songs.
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Published Stream o’ consciousness for July 23rd
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@bretthoerner Good luck out there, man! Sorry to miss last night @ Pearl, but had dog issues. Don’t be a stranger! [#]
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RT @ckrewson: Nice to see the underdog nytimes.com pull out a narrow win in the j-lab innovation awards. http://is.gd/1Jmy8 [#]
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Shared Living without money
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@scottkarp So what do you think right number to follow is? I’m pretty happy @ 300, w/ about 100 regular & 50 avid. [#]
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Realizing how much I hate "Everyone knows I’m like that" as excuse for bad/inconsiderate behavior. And how much I use. #ladyknewiwasasnake [#]
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RT @vincrosbie: Let’s face the fallacy that people value local news http://bit.ly/kVdf6 (Me: key= Local data is impt. Stories less so.) [#]
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RT @stevebuttry: By all means, let’s spend our money on lawyers. We have so much to throw around. http://bit.ly/Yg3I6 [#]
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Texting with my vet, whom I convinced to upgrade iPhone yesterday. Just got value of appt. in 1 minute of texting. #ilovethefuture [#]
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First Inglorious Basterds trailer made me roll eyes, shake head. Latest: looking for opening date, place to buy tickets: http://is.gd/1Ktov [#]
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