Thursday, 13 February 2014

Oh, Hello Pinterest.

So joining Pinterest turned out to be a lot of fun. I’ve been a long time lurker of the site, but had never really played with it. All in all a good experience, especially considering how user friendly it is. I even managed to whip up a board with vintage posters of movies I like: http://www.pinterest.com/mathieulanteign/

It’s not very long yet, but I’ll keep adding on to it as I find more. I also ended up finding a great Pinner by following links: http://www.pinterest.com/mediatheque54/ .This French audiovisual library has interesting lists and does a great job curating websites.  

Thursday, 6 February 2014

I Love Memes.

Yeah, that title pretty much sums it up. I’ve been spending a lot of my free time on Reddit over the past few months and now my sense of humor is pretty much irreparably broken. Unless it’s picture with an appropriate, informally regulated caption, I’m not interested.

I’ve never made a meme before, however, so this week’s exercise was a fun experience. I had a hard time finding inspiration at first, so I decided to make one that is representative of how a few of my colleagues and I choose to live:




Talking about memes, I wonder if I could get a juggling themed one of some sort going. Maybe using the following public domain image? I'm opened to suggestions.



Also: I wrote something last week about being into specific periods/genres of literature, and that the internet might provide a good way to share and interact about these topics with other like-minded people. Keeping that in mind, here is a Word Cloud made with the first two paragraphs of À rebours by Joris-Karl Huysmans:  

Wordle: NB23