::: Editor’s note: Contact to Analog originally appeared in Issue No. 3 under the special section Re:Analog. Here is a bit more about Re:Analog: “Re: Analog” is a new space within Digital America for content pertaining to all things analog in the digital age. As a journal we are clearly…
It’s March 31, 2014, #JerrySaltz is #trending and I am not sure you get the magnitude of this moment. Saltz is an art critic. Who cares about critics? Who cares about the small vacuum of social spaces within the cubed white gallery/museum? Saltz certainly does, and his Vulture piece criticizing “post-Internet”…
My number one biggest fear is someone else being able to read my mind, but I’d read someone else’s mind in a heartbeat. Scratch that. Let’s rewind for a second. Everyone’s got their thing. Some people fear spiders, or cannibalistic clowns who hang out in sewers. For others it’s heights,…
I live in Boston where I have three modes of transportation: I primarily walk, but I also bike and drive. When I first moved here in 2010, I did not have a car for the first two years, and as a biker/walker I harbored great disdain for those resource-sucking, air-polluting,…
Some lists are great. I’m looking at you, To-Do Lists and Grocery Lists. Couldn’t get by without ya! Without a grocery list, I’d come home with a gallon of chocolate milk and a bag of honey mustard and onion pretzels every time. Exclusively. Goodbye, Vitamin B and greens and whatever…
Madison Moore, culture maven extraordinarre, brings his course Nightlight as Art Form to the University of Richmond for the second time. And, really, what more could we ask for? Dr. Moore’s syllabus asks students: Why do we go out at night? How do the rhythms and bass of dance music…
The little aliens from Independence Day have always fascinated me. They’re the Russian stacking dolls of aliens. At first blush, they seem like tall, brawny beasts that’d clobber you with their talons and tails before sucking your spine out of your skull cap. Upon closer examination, though, you realize that…
After 390 hours of sometimes frustrating game play, over 100,000 people who were simultaneously playing the traditionally single player game Pokémon Red managed to defeat the final boss and win the game. “Twitch Plays Pokémon” caused a sensation on the Internet, quickly catching fire because it was a truly massive…
Lemme take you to the suburbs right outside Washington, DC, circa 2004. This is the advent of the cell phone. Not in general. Not in real history, but for the adolescent American youth living near the capital. The suburbs where kids now wear collared shirts for fun, whose gang members…
Folks in the United States who are drafting up their Facebook personas now have three categories from which to choose if they opt to identify a gender: “Female,” “Male,” or “Custom.” Within “Custom,” folks can insert up to ten choices from over 56 options to choose from. Perhaps our friends…