Jenkins Reading

The reading from Jenkins for this week, Games: The New Lively Art has some tricky linking issues from this blog. Try this link. If it doesn't work, type it in exactly like this, including the capital letters.

http://web.mit.edu/cms/People/henry3/GamesNewLively.html

Official Weblog of Henry Jenkins

For those of you writing your take home midterm, here’s a site I found useful and will be quoting throughout my paper.

Gaga in Wonderland

Personally, I’m not a big fan of Lady Gaga but this remix had me at “break dance fighting”.

Mario: Game Over (2007)

Serving as Nintendo’s mascot and the main protagonist of the series, Mario has appeared in over 200 video games since his creation in 1981. Let's look at what remix culture does to our precious nostalgia... :)

Here is a short movie created with some animation features, a good example for remix culture and early video games. Mario video games series are great nostalgia for many of us. The short movie above, "Mario: Game Over" was nominated for Best Comedy Video of 2007 in the Youtube Awards. It's quiet simple and doesn't have a happy ending, but they have a serious production team, and you need to see how many views they got on YouTube: 21,880,046 views

People watch these things! Really, they do! Me too...

I suggest you to visit their YouTube vlog, these guys really like to make animation short videos. Visit http://www.youtube.com/poykpac

Anti Communist Rhetoric

I thought this was noteworthy because YOUTUBE is precisely the perfect place for this type of speechmaking. Because YOUTUBE is such a wacky place, I think that venting is not just accepted but expected. People who go to this site might be a little more open minded about such wild arguments or maybe just more open to enjoying them.

29 Oscar Speeches in Two Minutes

This is not terribly important academically, but it has some relevance due to the academy awards being broadcast soon. Also, it is sociallty relevant because of homophobia being what it still is--a problem in our society.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muRtutFrwwE

Lewis Black: Leave Mike Huckabee Alone!

This is a parody of the "Leave Brittany Alone" vlog. It's funny and yet a little creepy.