~Other~

 Viewing the internet itself as a medium, I’ve also done other bits and pieces that fall outside of video or audio, including;

🎼📝 Experiments in Critique and eCreativity: For my Certificate 3 in Sound Production, we were tasked with selecting a particular genre and writing a report on it. I, naturally, chose vaporwave. Featuring a look at the genre’s beginnings through to the first 100% Electronicon, it’s a detailed run through of a genre that could only exist through the internet. Available on OneDrive and Google Drive.
🚉🤳 Trackside: A blog featuring photos of me at every train station in the Transperth network. Done because someone on Reddit said I should.
🐦📝 BuzzFuture: A twitter account written by a few friends and I to parody BuzzFeed to various degrees of success. Clickhole’s better though.
🐦🤖 BazingaBot: A bot that gives you everything you’d ever need out of Chuck Lorre’s hit sitcom.
🐘💊 The Premarin Pop Cultural Phenomenon: A thread on Mastodon I wrote giving a name to the phenomenon of taking an element from a work at face value and using it in propaganda without noticing the critique it’s actually a part of (which usually goes against the point of their propaganda). It’s an infamous trend within the right wing/far right (The Red Pill, George Orwell/Orwellian, etc.).
🆓🖼️ (Free)Mint: When looking at Twitter’s NFT profile picture feature versus the normal profile pictures, I noticed something. As far as Twitter is concerned, at least from a user experience perspective, the only noticeable difference between regular JPEGs for avatars and NFT JPEGs for avatars is that one has the ability to display metadata next to it. That’s it. Twitter also recently introduced alt text descriptions for images. So… using the alt text to display the metadata means you have created an identical version of the NFT profile picture, at the very least functionally speaking. So I started with iJustine, and then followed up with queerwasher and scam artist Thorne Melcher. Author, blogger, and journalist David Gerard called it “an amusing take, in fact”.