Do it For the VIne...

"Do it for the vine" was a trendy saying regarding a little girl in a dance outfit who didn't want to dance, but of course she did it for the Vine.  Vine or Vines are short-form videos of six-seconds that users have recorded and edited to continuously loop and for other users to share through other social media platforms.  According to techcrunch.com Vine became the most popular used video app.  This app spawns personalities, creativity and keeps us stimulated within every six seconds.  

Vine has grown in popularity so much that Dunkin Donuts was the first to use a Vine video for a commercial.  The art world has even seen the creative use of Vines when the first Vine video was sold at #SVAES (The Shortest Video Art Ever Sold) in NYC offering Vine videos to purchase for $200 vua thumb drive.  Tits On Tits On Ikea was the first to be sold.  

The creativity of Vines is amazing of what people can do within six seconds. Editing videos is timely, but Vine makes it fun and innovative while adding your own spin to how you view the world. Vine is a product of our remix culture by remixing videos with music that is totally opposite of the image clip to make a point or to be funny.

                      These Vines are very creative and amazing. How'd you do It?



Also Vines have the ability to change the way we see the world within a short time. Journalism has utilized Vine's short video capture when a bomb exploded in Turkey and the reporter recorded the most important facts of the incident. My favorite use of a Vine for Social Justice is when a young African-American teenager is constantly followed around a store by racist store clerks. This speaks to many young black males and others as well as a reminder that racism in America still exist on all levels.

                                #ShethinkImstealing -great hashtag.


So are vines the video version of twitter? And since everyone can tweet will everyone Vine regardless of technical skills. Twitter does not focus on grammar usage, but content. Vine seems to still have an impact regardless of shaky cameras and poor audio. Have we dumbed down our production for quality now that everyone can produce? I hope not...


And my all time favorite Vine accompanied by music from Atlanta Hip-Hop group Migos that was not playing when the video was recorded. Hash tagged as "when the school shooting goes as planned"

"The Congress" and sharing our Information...

Now that I'm learning more about digital media and how it functions in our society, I wonder when we will slowly become victims of our own discoveries?

It is becoming more of an accepted idea to frequently to submit our information for others to log and use every time we visit a site or give our email to be apart of a new app.  The reality was there once watching a new film called The Congress.  The film is about an actress who's career is over, but has one chance to revitalize it forever.  The way to revitalize it would be to scan herself.  Everything that makes her her would be in a computer file to use for future movies.  Just think if we scanned all the influential actors and actresses before they passed to keep them in roles for today?  Could you see a conflict within yourself when doing this?

In a sense this movie represents how we are living today regarding our connection with social media and information sharing.  If we decide to give up or scan our information to certain sites or show too much information of ourselves on social networking, are we basically doing the same thing in the film?
Check out the trailer and the website for The Congress and hopefully you can see the detailed animation on the big screen.