Rob Olague
Best Man Speech for Greg and Kelly
Given June 18th, 2011. Wedding of Greg Miller and Kelly Fellows. R-Ranch, Dahlonega, GA I’m very honored to be here today. I’m not even sure exactly how to be a best man, but I Googled it and I found out I’m supposed to give a speech. Hello everyone, welcome and for those that don’t know [...]
Exit Through The Gift Shop
World-famous street artist Banksy recently released a film called “Exit Through The Gift Shop” (trailer here), billed as the world’s “First Street Art Disaster Movie.” A commentary on the state of street art, a burgeoning underground movement, it is for many, the first look into a culture of art that takes place on the streets [...]
Coming Soon: Augmented Reality Posters
Some film posters might soon have more to offer than graphics and titles. Disney created the first augmented reality campaign for a major motion picture to promote the Prince of Persia: Sands of Time. If users launch Layar, an augmented reality app available for iPhone and Android, near a specially-marked poster for the movie, they’ll [...]
Answering Anonymous Users: Worth the Risk?
Seven hundred million questions, 12 million accounts, and the 61st most visited site in the US (according to Quantcast), one site that is growing in popularity has provided a new way to communicate directly online. A more stealth trend among younger ‘netizens’ is an anonymous questioning platform provided by a service called Formspring.me. Formspring features [...]
Twitter Celebrity Doesn’t Count
On Twitter, the race for followers is evident from the multitude of spammers advertising “fast free followers,” and a myriad of applications and websites that promise to increase follower counts. Many people equate follower counts to circulation, but it’s a suspect comparison. Just how valuable are followers, anyway? The most followed accounts are generally those [...]
Trojan Fans – the sky is not falling! Here are some reasons to still believe.
Special thanks to Adrian Santos for this guest post A bowl ban of 2 years, and the loss of 20 scholarships. Sounds heavy, but take heart, Trojan fans – all is not lost. Here are a few reasons the Empire will not fall: – Company Culture. People playing for us play so they can get [...]
The Object-Oriented Internet
We’ve covered Stickybits before, a startup launched at SXSW earlier this year with the intent of creating a platform for discussion of physical objects. Today’s announcement of Pepsi as an official partner is a peek into the future of physical objects that mirror the digital world, and vice-versa. A cousin to augmented reality, Stickybits provides [...]
Notes from TEDxUSC – Ideas Worth Sharing from Singapore’s Digital Future
Michael Yap, Deputy CEO at the Media Development Authority of Singapore (a Singapore government agency), spoke at a recent TEDxUSC event. As Executive Director of the Interactive Digital Media Programme Office, he highlighted some of Singapore’s major digital and animation achievements, including a demonstration of a virtual 3-D city. He emphasized the rapid growth of [...]
Notes from TEDxUSC – Ideas Worth Sharing in Copyright Protections
Johanna Blakely, deputy director of the Norman Lear Center, asked us to rethink our concept of copyright protection using the fashion industry as an example. Her proof was that works of fashion are not copyrighted in the U.S., and poorly protected elsewhere, and yet it has not taken away the incentive to innovate in those [...]
