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I am 1/3rd of MemeFactory: a performative lecture about the Internet. Memefactory is produced by WhatWeKnowSoFar - which is three dudes who live in Brooklyn.
Stephen Bruckert – The middle. Neckbeard. http://srsbsnss.com
Patrick Davison – The tallest. Sometimes beard. http://00pd.com
Mike Rugnetta – The most sewious. Almost always beard. http://rugnetta.com
MemeFactory has performed at NYU (Guest Lecturers, Students For Free Culture, MCC Undergrad Conf.), Yale (Students For Free Culture), Social Media Week (Sao Paulo, Brazil), MIT (ROFLcon II), 3rd Ward (Resident Artists). We have consulted with NPR, The NY Times, ResultsOn Magazine, SixPix PR. We were featured in TimeOut NY and on NBC NY. We have worked/researched with the Web Ecology Project, and Know Your Meme in the past. We completely and totally the internet.
What's new, pips? Haven't heard anything in a while.
It is! We've been exceptionally lax on the updates, haven't we? Rest assured it's because we're all working our butts off right now. We actually had a conversation w/ Breadpig yesterday about our EDITORS... which is very exciting.
Suffice it to say hopefully within the next month or two everyone will start seeing PDFs of finished chapters - and eventually the whole book. Those w/ db access can see a bunch of it right now!
Is this still expected to be finished by the end of January?
I am down duh down down down with this project. You guys are great and I'm pumped to be able to back you up on this. But i wonder how you might respond to a kindly criticism...first, for all the LOLcats out there: Can teh internetz has message? (humans read: "does the internet have 'a message'?")
I shall be very much interested to know how you'll address this in your book. Send it to me ex post facto at 1-900-555-5553. Loves! See you at NYU!
Way to go, guys! Can't wait!
This isn't REALLY book related, and is really short notice so I've decided to comment instead of update, but if any of our San Francisco backers / friends happen to see this:
Patrick and I are speaking tomorrow morning at 10:30a at the Web2.0 Expo with Kenyatta Cheese, Jamie Wilkinson and Elspeth Rountree about the challenges of documenting Internet Culture. If you're in the area, you should come by! And if you're already attending, come find us after the keynote and say hey! <3
@Skippy Hey! Sorry we didn't get back to you sooner.
I think your comments were interesting... but I don't think it's ironic at all! There's nothing ironic about having a live show about the internet... we think it's a great format for the particular thing we do and we love getting a bunch of people in a room together to share a one-time thing. It's a great antidote to the often-isolating forever-archived nature of the internet...
As for the book itself, it's a natural fit for us. We've stumbled upon a lot of really interesting ideas and themes in all this culture we've been documenting and explaining, and we believe the successful and complete communication of these ideas requires sustained attention and focus that just isn't fun in a live setting and, for now, incompatible with the way most people use the internet.
Mike, Patrick, and I are all heavy readers and LOVE LIBRARIES. References to "dead-tree" media are tongue-in-cheek with us. We're huge boosters of internet culture, but not necessarily in opposition to other mediums. We can love the internet and still love paintings, sculpture, music, and literature.
Thanks for commenting!
@Matthew Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed the show. If you're in NYC, we're doing another (muuuuch larger!) one April 22nd at NYU. We'll be updating all our backers about it once we get closer.
I really enjoyed your performance at #KittenCamp in NYC, and was inspired to support this project! Looking forward to reading the entire internet, once it's in convenient book form.
@mandiberg : http://i.imgur.com/HH7Ai.jpg
ITS OVER 9000!!!!
Love supporting the publishing of a physical book. Check out our photojournalism project for SXSW where we'll be creating a lengthy photobook of the festival: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/817412149/pop-stache-this-must-be-the-fan-sxsw/
I like you guys, I do. As a librarian, who has had to endure 10 years of non-stop chatter from so-called informational professionals from the tech sector, I find it deeply - ironic? That you're using the internet to raise money for your print book about the internet. Could you maybe slip something into your lectures and slide shows about a little respect for my professional and the world of print publishing, maybe? K tx by!
Nice to have you on the team! Every time we say "famo" we put up a picture of you.
Proud to be a backer. You guys rock, keep up the amazing memework