by Vivian Obarski I remarked on Twitter once that the fandom war between BBC’s Sherlock and CBS’ Elementary is starting to make the Biggie/Tupac feud…
For some reason, heavy metal – the music, the musicians, the fan culture – has inspired a lot of great documentary films. One day I…
I’ve read about 5 or 6 blog posts in the past month or so about the popular social media campaign surrounding the latest Muppet movie….
[youtube=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtIhedSMQXA”] Interesting news for both fans of NIN and followers of fan culture, fan-works and ownership. The grassroots fan organized video production collective This One…
It’s November; ’tis the season of month-long marathon creative endeavors, such as National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) For NaNoWriMo, participants aim to complete an original…
The final game of the World Cup is tomorrow, an offline event that has the potential to shut down Twitter with the amount of online…
Until recently, Clay Shirky was best known as the author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. The book was widely praised…
I’ve only recently had the income to even consider art collection as an option for me, but as a music fan, rock poster art has…
If you live in Chicago and work in online … anything really, you know that there are about 5 – 10 events going on each…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxn567bHny8] I come neither to bury Barbie nor to praise her, but to acknowledge her larger cultural role, after turning fifty this year. And she…