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Day: September 7, 2015
What side are you on for Civil War??? Team Tony or Team Steveššš
waitin’ for the bus in the sun, in the sun
iāve got accepted to college and this was one of the works i sent in.
so iām gonna study animation soon ^-^
āHiding. Lying. Sweeping away evidence. And my motives used to be so pure.ā
Four Seasons
Victo Ngai
Here are the newsletter headers I created for Columbia University Graduate School of Arts and Science. Itās really fun to work on something that doesnāt have a narrative, I was encouraged to come up with whimsical imageries that represent the seasons and gives a sense of journey.Ā
Big thanks to AD John Stislow from Stislow Design Brooklyn, a great pleasure to work with!
Tumblrās official post about the elimination of threaded comments says itās to improve readability. Since numerous folks have complained in the tumblr update tag that the change makes reading comments more difficult, you might find that hard to believe.
āBetter readabilityā is the story Tumblr is telling users. To its business and advertising partners, Yahoo/Tumblrās story is quite different. The comment change is merely a symptom. The actual changes are:
āNew functionality to link the Tumblr mobile app to other mobile apps (Facebook, Twitter) and share content (x). Android only so far. With this update, users on mobile can share any content on Tumblr with just one click to any app they have running (x).
āNew functionality to advertise mobile apps to Tumblr mobile app users (x). Called āIn-App Sharing,ā (you are what is being shared), it was announced at the Yahoo Mobile Developer Conference, August 26, 2015. It works like this: when viewing a Tumblr post created with an app like Instagram, you see text saying āMade with Instagramā followed by an Install button for Instagram. (Example image, above right, features the Discover app). āDevelopersā are what Yahoo calls its corporate advertising partners. These ādevelopersā are not young folks crafting open source apps to save the environment; at the conference, Yahoo senior vice president Simon Khalaf boasted that global mobile usage now ābeats the [global] distribution of clean waterā (x). Charming.
As many Tumblr users have complained, the change to Tumblr comments (live on Tumblr mobile apps and Tumblr for the web as of September 3, 2015) make Tumblr look like Facebook and Twitter. This is undoubtedly to support the new ability to link the Tumblr mobile app with other mobile apps, such as Facebook and Twitter, and to share content. Tumblrās original threaded comment format (see image above on left) cannot port to Facebook or Twitter or anywhere. Therefore, while Tumblr support said it wants feedback on the comments change, rest assured all feedback of the āComments are less readable nowā type will be ālovinglyā (x) dumped in the trash.
On August 17, 2015, Yahoo/Tumblr got a fantastic scare from Facebook, when Facebook announced, āWeāre testing an update to Notes to make it easier for people to create and read longer-form stories on Facebook,ā in order to compete with Tumblr (x). Yahoo/Tumblr, Google/YouTube, Facebook/Instagram, and Twitter are locked into a death struggle, usually clumping into Facebook versus everyone else, except when they clump into Google versus everyone else. In any case, in the trenches of the social media wars, itās the users who always lose.
Note: want actual news about Yahoo/Tumblr? Go to finance.yahoo.com and search for ātumblrā.
Preeeeetty much this.
Follow the money.
emes:
i googledĀ āwhat does lifetime supply meanā and ended up on this Reddit of people who have had to live with the aftermath of winning very large quantities of consumer goods
iām reading this whole thread and iām having a great time
fireplace: one of your favorite stories, books, or poems
sweater: a favorite comforting thought
pumpkin pie: a favorite comfort food
apple cider: a favorite comfort drink (alcoholic or non, either way)
fallen leaves: a scent that triggers a positive memory
maple: a kindness or sweet sentiment you’ve done or that someone has done for you
oak: something or someone that encourages strength in you
elm: what your dreams are like
cornfield: a reason you want or don’t want to be a parent
corn maze: something you need to figure out right now
full moon: something about yourself you feel is unusual
Hereās what fanfiction understands that the Puppies donāt: inversion and subversion donāt ruin the story ā they just give you new ways to tell it, and new tools to tell it with. Take a platonic relationship and make it romantic; thereās a story in that. Take a romantic relationship and make it platonic; thereās a story in that, too. Take a human and make her a werewolf; take a werewolf and make him human. Donāt try and sidle up on hurt/comfort like itās something youāre ashamed to be indulging in; embrace the tropes until you have their mastery. Take a gang of broken souls surviving the apocalypse and make them happy in high school; take a bunch of funny, loving high school kids and shove them in the apocalypse. Like Archimedes, fanfic writers find the soul, the essence of what makes the characters real, and use it as a fulcrum on which to pivot entire worlds, with inversion/subversion as their lever of infinite length.
foz meadows (via ailelie)
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