Mashups

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Time’s Person of the Year: You

You know niche media has gone mainstream when Time Magazine makes you Person of the Year. Yes, you, you, and you — including you in the middle passing notes, and especially you in front nodding (maybe not so much you in the back throwing spitballs). Yes, even you in the doorway lookin’ pretty. If the ’80’s was the “Me” decade of status seekers kissing up through channels, the ’00’s is the “You” decade of content creators making their own channels.

…look at 2006 through a different lens and you’ll see another story, one that isn’t about conflict or great men. It’s a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before. It’s about the cosmic compendium of knowledge Wikipedia and the million-channel people’s network YouTube and the online metropolis MySpace. It’s about the many wresting power from the few and helping one another for nothing and how that will not only change the world, but also change the way the world changes.

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The Melancholy of Gundam SEED Destiny

Ah, two of my favorite recent anime in one AMV: the fourth opening sequence of Gundam SEED Destiny to the tune of Bouken Desho Desho?, the opening theme from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

I swear, Kira Yamato must’ve descended from Haruhi Suzumiya. They’re both frickin’ gods. I could go on and on about these shows’ visions of posthumanity, but I won’t. I’ll just let you sit back and enjoy the video.

Bonus: The difference with Haruhi is she doesn’t know her own power. As the following AMV succinctly points out, She’s Just Oblivious. Click here to continue reading “The Melancholy of Gundam SEED Destiny”…