Food´s pictures - Boredom in Facebook 

- Who has not seen a photo of a plate of food on facebook?

- What have you thought about it?

- He has given you jealous or just have repudiated the person who uploaded it?

"Websurfing" is a phenomenon by which we share our experiences, as well as the experiences of our friends, which can be positive or negative. We need to regard as an ideation of social experience realized that is often enough through subsequent sharing and asynchronous shared experiences.

Wittkower says in "Boredom on facebook", We can share our experience and thus make it an experience of boredom-alongside, Allowing us to find our current boredom not as empty time under the tedious meaningless of which we suffer, but as time wasted along with others: leisure but purposelessly well spent.  "We can see a kind of performative confirmation of These claims in the much-derided practice of photographing pictures of your lunch."

But I would like launch the next question, have real success these photos that are uploaded to facebook, or are of a negative value to get your own person?

Here it goes my opinion

There are many things that bother us on Facebook, such as the advertising that appears repeatedly, or the new songs that have added our friends at Spotify. But every day we are seeing the most annoying element, that is the photos of food. No one can understand the need of people to climb to facebook food photographs.

Restaurants use advertising to make people be hungry. I do not know the motives behind people who post pictures of food of Facebook, but it accomplishes the same goal. There's nothing quite like taking a study break fot go an extra twenty minutes because i saw a picture of pizza on Facebook and then needed a snack.

According Wittkower , if we upload these photos to facebook, we are doing an experience of boredom-alongside. But in my view "Food pictures" do absolutely nothing for anyone, Besides That the person posted it. There's nothing more anyone can do with that picture other than wonder when their next meal will come.

Sources:

- D.E. Wittkower, 'Boredom on Facebook', in: Geert Lovink & Miriam Rasch (eds.) Unlike Us Reader. Social Media Monopolies and Their Alternatives. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures 2013, pp. 180-188.

- pentsaleku.com

- http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/dining/07camera.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&

- Marco A. Paz, 2009. Redes Sociales: La Nueva Oportunidad

14th May´s Lecture

Real Maps in the City.

     Google Maps has become in the main reference when the people want found a place, and his famous marks to designate the place where we want to go, an inspiration object for many artists. Everybody know the marks (A and B) that use Google maps when you use its navigator to know the way to one address. Google has used this fact, to put this symbol in some cities, jumping from the virtual world to the real world. With this action Google not only seeks publicity and vision in the city. Google want that the people take pictures with it "statue" and upload to the social networks. Google tries that this mark to be part of the city and that be a meeting point. 

This work is in the Dutch city of Breda, was created by the German artist Aram Bartholl you are trying to connect the real world and the virtual work. This work of art is the perfect example to explain the passage of internet culture to real life. The cities are changing and the internet culture is also, a resource for this change.

This actions in the street began with the urban screens in the 70´s with the famous Spectacular Board in New York’s Times Square. It´s a new urban stile produced by the layering of physical space and media and internet space. The cities acquire many details imported of the virtual world, and now, symbols that was only in the virtual world appear in the real life. We have seen a lot of examples in this class and everyday appear new instances. What will be the following? Like and dislike buttons to evaluate our food at restaurants?

The cities incorporate the fact of globalization and digitalization as part of the representation of the urban spectrum. This situation is a new field to be explored by architects and planners and is the start to know a new cities. The world is changing with the new technologies. Also the cities. 


Sources:

 'Reading the City in a Global Age', in: Scott McQuire, Meredith Martin & Sabine Niederer (eds.) Urban Screens Reader. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures 2009, pp. 29-44.

Arjen Mulder, 'TransUrbanism', in: Joke Brouwer, Arjen Mulder & Laura Martz (eds.) TransUrbanism. Rotterdam: V2_Publishing / NAi Publishers 2002, pp.5-13.

Reinventing Public Art, Thousands of LEDs at a Time - Arts & Lifestyle - The Atlantic Cities

http://blog.pucp.edu.pe/item/3243/manual-para-el-desarrollo-de-ciudades-digitales-en-america-latina

Youtube and his Viral Videos (Keenan Cahill vs. Tay Zondey)

In the next post, let's move our attention to the viral videos published on the video social network called "Youtube". It is as simple as uploading your funny video or sometimes not even that to youtube and people like and share the video. Simple word of mouth can get videos millions of views and therefore make money. The combination of these two concepts – YouTube and the viral video – has created numerous cases of people who have become famous, for example Justin Bieber and Keenan Cahill.

According to the Burgess and Green’s recent content survey of YouTube, many viral videos are performance-based and music-related, rather than narrative or information-based. Jean Burgess says: "It is arguably the combination of oddness and earnest amateurism that made ‘Chocolate Rain’ such a massive YouTube hit", this song of Zonday which had success incredible it can be compared with Keenah Cahill. 

Ah, you do not know who Keenan Cahill is?

This guy in the picture is Keenan Cahill. Cahill has achieved International success at the young age of 17, initially with the just the help of his iMac that he received for his 13th birthday. He has achieved an audience of over 425 million people, and the many gains that entails.

At 2 years old he underwent a bone marrow transplant to slow the progression of his disease. The first operation was followed by two more operations – the last one which nearly cost him his life.

Currently, your health depends on an expensive schedule: go to school in the mornings and in the afternoon record yourself singing and dancing. The first time he did this he had an excellent response in the network.

The first success of this young man was thanks to this song by Katy Perry, and is the one that has gotten the most views:

Now Keenan has used this fame to launch his own record together with sister-duo Electrovamp UK. This is his new song called "Hands Up":

Like Keenan or Zondey, we can all upload our videos to this powerful social platform called YouTube. This process of sharing and creating music videos is called Vidding, which is what led Keenan to fame and helped him get contracts with famous producers such as Paramount Pictures for the promotion of any of his movies.

You never know what is a good idea that can throw you to fame – if you have an idea just do it!

Sources:

- Sivera Bello, Silvia (2008) Marketing Viral. Editorial UOC

- Jean Burgess, "All your chocalate rain are belong to us?" Viral Video, Youtube and the Dynamics of Participatory culture", In: Geert Lovink & Sabine Niederer (eds.) Video Vortex Reader. Responses to YouTube. Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures 2008, pp. 101-109.

- http://www.azteca.com/notas/vengalaalegria/47712/keenan-cahill:-internet-le-ha-salvado-la-vida

- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpxVIwCbBK0

23th April´s Lecture