My Dog, Mercury

Meet my dog, Mercury Murphy Roushanzamir. She also writes a blog. Her most recent entry provides some insight into new media art & social media and also provides links to 3 galleries (app: Zapd) which show off her iPhotography. And, she identifies the apps that contribute to her creative work.

Please take a look at the blog (address below) and visit the gallery links.

Mercury's Blog
http://www.mercurymurphy.blogspot.com

Powerful political flashmob in Paris

Take a look at this video of a flash mob in Paris that quietly but powerfully takes a stand against oppression in Iran and read the description of it on You tube.

Absolut Stunning

Clearly, many talented students have worked their way through Creative Message Strategy this term. Although they've created ads in a variety of media for such products as Nutella, Ray-Bans, Mexicali Grill (local restaurant), these simple ads may actually pose the biggest challenge.

Please view but 3 examples of Absolut ads [& 3 manipulated photos of those ads by me!] The ads are directed at 35+ with emphasis on older segment of the target audience. Tone, witty, sophisticated. Feel free to offer your comments? Post them below.

Iranian Rapper Hich-Kas

Here is Iranian rap artist, Hich-kas, rapping without music, free style.

And here is a highly produced rap from the same artist.

Quick & Easy Illustration & Photo Manipulation Apps

Creating an ad, a presentation or just want to have some fun? Here are the names of some illustration & photo manipulation apps and a few examples of results: iMajiCam--take photos with many different filters, PhotoStudio--crop & manipulate photos from your camera roll, ArtStudio--someone described it as a mini PhotoShop in which you can import & manipulate photos or draw pictures & apply tools to them on screen, RetroCam--the first one I tried, fun but not as robust as the others. I chose the examples randomly & just to give an idea, albeit very partial, of the actual results achieved.