Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google. Show all posts

Friday, February 18, 2011

Tumblr: 4chan for Hipsters

Tumblr, the extremely popular and trendy "blogging" site. I didn't know about Tumblr until I saw it all over my facebook news feed. And now it seems to be the hosting site for many memes. Most of these memes were first introduced on 4chan, the scourge of the internet where there is no rules nor regulations and one can find any defiled piece of childhood one can imagine. But this isn't the first thing I've seen Tumblr steal, Twitter's logo used to be a "T" very similar to Facebook's "F" logo, but Tumblr now has the "T" while Twitter has a blue swallow as their logo.

Tumblr logo

So Tumblr is an icon thief, in my opinion.  Not only that I rarely see anyone actually really "blog" on their own pages. I see mostly "reblogged" images. So not only does the website steal from other websites, it encourages theft amongst its members. 

Twitter logos
But back to the correlation between Tumblr and 4chan. 4chan's been around for a few years now, and I first heard of it in high school. It was like a "meeting of the minds" in an old school 90's internet chat forum. Its just that these minds are not ones would particularly desire to become engaged in conversation with. As I mentioned earlier, anything defiling you can think of about any childhood memories (in pop culture) exists within the forum walls of 4chan. 
Facebook logo

And now as I scour Google for the funny meme pictures that make me giggle they all seem to come from Tumblr. And I know they first came from the /b/-tards on 4chan. /b/ is one of the many, and most infamous, forums on 4chan. Tumblr is much more mainstream and popular than 4chan due to it having rules and restraints to negate racism, crudeness, and bigotry. And since Tumblr is so trendy it attracted hipsters which now compose most of its members. But the fact remains that Tumblr is borrowing 4chans products and passing them off as their own, since I doubt most hipsters know what 4chan is due to 4chan's demographic are socially awkward/challenged, basement-dwelling gamers; and sociopaths. 


Apparently there's also a war waging betwixt Tumblr and 4chan. I haven't personally seen any flying shrapnel, unlike YouTube flame wars. I hear of attacks from one another but I have yet seen any kind of action actually taken, perhaps because I am on neither site.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Tronalicious

     I saw Tron: Legacy last month which gave my eyes orgasms, so much so that I had to have more. Baby needed his crack so instead of paying money to go watch the film again I decided to Google image search instead. Whilst I gave my eyes a cheap substitute for the real deal, I stumbled upon a girl who had made her own Quorra costume this past Halloween.

  


     I read that she used faux leather and Electroluminescent (EL) wire or tape to create this DIY Tron: Legacy costume. After seeing such inspirational innovation, I decided that I too wanted to create my very own light up Tron outfit. So instead of just blindly searching for "Tron" and "Tron: Legacy," I decided to look up Tron outfits more specifically. One thing I saw was this official merchandise motorcycle outfit. Instead of EL wire, or any other form of illumination, they use reflective tape.
  



     I mean, these are cool and all, but I want something that actually lights up, also these are a bit on the pricey side. So its back t scratch DIY for this guy. I then again made a more specific search for homemade Tron outfits. And what I found was outstanding. I had stumbled upon something thats been on the internet for over five years, I discovered the Tron Guy.


  


    Now, his costume is from the old school 1982 Tron. The original Tron isn't as popular as the one and is, in some circles, placed in the same category as playing Dungeons and Dragons (D&D). But say what you will about the Tron Guy, he is extraordinarily brave and has gained fame (or notoriety?) from this endeavor. He's been spoofed and interviewed several times.

  


     So since 2003, when he created his costume, hes gained much media attention especially with the new movie that just came out. But still I want my costume to be more of the new movie's style as opposed to the original's (despite my liking of nostalgia). So now its all of how to make it all work, how to put the costume together. I'm thinking of a black morphsuit as the base underneath it all, also some black leather motorcycle boots and motorcycle helmet. The armor and EL wire are the tricky parts. I've never used EL wire before personally, but I'm not a complete noob. I've known about the stuff for over a year due to one of my best friends, Blyth, who has used it before for her own outfits. So I'll have someone for referencing (thumbs up). But the armor, I'm a little clueless. I could get chunks of plastic for my chest, shoulders, and gauntlets but where does one find such plastic? Also I don't know what to do with my lower half. I may be ballsy at times but I don't necessarily want my junk just hanging out there, and with just the morphsuit I can have no shame. So I'll need to think of how to do that, leather pants maybe? However I end up doing it, I'm sure it'll come out great and I'll have a blast making it!

Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Ancient Civilizations Older Than We Think

So everyone's heard of Atlantis, or at least most people. But of late this subject has peaked my interest again. All of this started when my friend told me about his findings of vimanas, ancient Indian flying crafts. So we did the first thing any scientifically minded youngsters of our time do, we Googled it. We discovered that there were actual blueprints found about the crafts and that when made into models actually fly. The most intriguing facts though are that the documents about vimanas are dated over 10,000 years ago. Why is that so intriguing you ask? Because Homo sapiens have been on the Earth about 200,000 years, reaching full behavioral modernity for around 50,000 years, and modern archaeology says that we were hunter gatherers living in caves until around 6000 years ago. So if there modern archaeology is right, then where did these documents on vimanas come from and why are they dated over 4000 years prior to the "birth" of civilization?


Along with writing of the ancient Indian airships, vimanas, there were also accounts of a huge land mass that is now submerged that connected the Southern tip of India and Sri Lanka to Madagascar and the Western edge of Australia called Kumari Kundam. This place is just as legendary as Atlantis, just not as known in Western civilization because we don't seem to care about anything past this side of Constantinople. But why if such a large landmass existed, is it now submerged? Well the last ice age we had fully melted around 9000 years ago, raising sea levels that submerged roughly the same amount of land as Europe and China combined. So if Kumari Kundam was just at a lower elevation than everything, that would explain why its now submerged. This too would also explain why Atlantis would be submerged.


So back to Atlantis. Plato is the only one in Western civilization to have accounts of Atlantis that we know of. And he said that it was outside the Pillars of Hercules, which is believed to be present-day the Straight of Gibraltar.






More recently others have thought Atlantis could be in the Caribbean Sea near the Bermuda Triangle. Which is understandable when seeing things like Bimini Road and the Pyramid like structure Paulina Zelitsky found off the West coast of Cuba. But I believe its right where Plato said it was, in the middle of the Atlantic, but I'm not saying that cause I'm a hardcore Plato fan, but because I looked it up, but where else, yes Google! I Google mapped the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, and guess what I found, I found a couple of small islands atop of a sea mount range. (Zoom out from the link on Google Maps and you'll see the islands' placement)
What I don't understand is if I can find that via the internet on a consumer grade computer, hell, I did it first on my iPhone, but why can't archaeologists go search around there for any submerged structures or artifacts? With enough searching I'm sure they'll find something.

I've spat out a lot of info your way and its a little late (at the moment), so continuity might be a little askew. My main point is that modern mainstream archaeology doesn't seem to be up to date. Once I heard that we've have had our current full mental capacity for over 50,000 years and that civilizations have only been around for 6000 years I knew there was something wrong. If we've come this far in the past 6000 years, not even, the past 100 years, HELL, the past 10 years technologically; then why the hell can someone think we did nothing but live in caves for over 40,000 years doing no more than discovering fire, the wheel and painting on the walls? Its ignorant to think that for six times as long as we have had civilization recorded we did nothing with that time.

My friend and I came across ancient Indian stories about how Atlantis and Kumari Kundam use to wage war against one another, being the two most technologically advanced powerhouses on the planet at the time. And how they had the vimanas and weapons of great power, they describe what would be similar to laser guns and radiation beams. And how their final battles blew each other up and submerged both continents causing the world to go into a dark age. And with this information added to how long we've had our mental capacity, I can completely believe that mankind, over 10,000 years ago, was more advanced then we are and blew each other up so bad that it created a dark age and all documents were virtually lost. With 40,000 years of development I can believe this planet has seen flying crafts and atomic weaponry when mainstream archaeology says we were living in caves. There have been numerous dark ages, the most famous being Europe's around a 1000 years ago.  

There are so many more things yet to be discovered in this world, about our past and whats yet to come.