Blog-ster vs Art-ster
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created on 周一, 2008-02-25 18:31 
Having both a fine arts and a new media background, on Feb 21st I attended Moose Camp hosted by Northern Voice at UBC during the day and Fuse at the Vancouver art gallery during the night. It was here I got to observe these two cultures close at hand. Just like Dian Fossey and the Gorillas, I couldn't help but to compare the males of these species.
Blog-ster |
Art-ster |
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| Fashion | Tshirts with obscure web references, geek humor, their website address, or free swag from conferences |
An obscure indie band tshirt, has tons of vintage clothing but wears the same tight pants scarf. Chipped off black nail polish. |
Addictions |
Coffee, wi-fi, RSS feeds, bookmarking, microbrewery beer, drinks a lot of soda (mostly coke) |
Coffee, hair dying, Belmont Milds cigarettes, Ativan, finding a colour darker then black |
Habits |
Drops comments, Settlers of Catan, Mac products |
Name drops, playing chess out side pretentious coffee shop, Mac products |
Music |
Listens to music you don't want to hear, anything that can be downloaded, Last FM, Pandora, web radio, pod casts |
Listens to music you haven’t event heard of, college radio, cbc |
Vocabulary |
Social media, micro-blogging, citizen journalism, seo, escribitionists, swear to blog, PPC, ad-sense, technosexual |
Po-mo (post modern), semiotics, happenings, juxtaposition, alternative process |
Symptoms |
Pale pasty complexion, complains of trouble sleeping, impotence |
Pale pasty complexion, complains of trouble sleeping, impotence |
Pros |
knows all the websites that are 2.0, Usually has a rad collection of movies and cartoons on their hard drive, may be able to fix your computer |
knows all the bars that have 2.00 drink specials, knows where to get vintage clothes, usually has a flask on person |
Cons |
Embraces all popular culture, has google advertisements on their blog for Viagra and owns all 10 season of "Friends: The Collectors Edition" |
Rejects all popular culture, prevalence of advertising and crass capitalist consumerism…. yet secretly watches “Friends” |
Social Skills |
ummm... Online chat rooms... forums... craigslist? |
Engrossed in his area of interest at the cost of personal hygiene |
Weapons of choice |
His Macbook Air and iPhone. He probably knows some hackers, is an admin on your favorite social network, and will have your ass kicked off. |
A fixed gear bike, pithy comments of irony, ironic distance, complains often |
