“In the Internet Famous class at Parson’s New School, students blog, facebook, twitter, and digg their way to internet fame and hopefully an A.” [link]

Mad props if you register a Current account and vote us up on their site. Further props for retweets, reblogs, re-edits, remixes, reposts, crossposts, sideposts, you name it. That’s what we’re all about baby.

The big hit of the week is of course…. our nations president dodging shoes (8874 Diggs):

I Found Him! claims 6293 with a simple wave of the pen tool:

I don’t even eat meat and I think the bacon weave is dope (4751 Diggs):

Why People Write “First” in the comments (3586):

#1 for the week on Buzzfeed is Parson’s alumn Becky Stern’s Private Browsing Sweater:

And what would a good meme be without some animated gif remixes:

The most “awesome viral videos of 2008″ according to videogum:

Soft 9-11:

Iraqi Reporter Throws Shoes At Bush claims 17 of the top 20 most viewed youtube clips of the week.

Internet art all star (and personal favorite) Oliver Laric makes youtubes front page featured section with his clipart annimation (if you haven’t seen his work be sure to check it out):

If someone just slaps some west coast rap ontop of this I’m guaranteeing some famo:

Skills With A 15 Ton Front Loader – Watch more Entertainment

3D Cursor:

fffff.at resident tobi-x claims some famo with Pirates of the Amazon….. Great project, great title.

ER over and out.

Jack is also rockin’ it on Vimeo:

My Name is JACK – Please ADOPT ME! from adriene hughes on Vimeo

Other concept tumblrs we’ve enjoyed, all focused and dedicated:
* Puddle Blog
* Boner Party
* Laser Portraits

Rickroll has officially entered mainstream culture with a surprise performance by Rick Astley during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Over 7000 diggs and over 1800 points on Reddit:

The dark side of Black Friday, with 3945 diggs and 1730 points on Reddit:
Long Islanders Fatally Stampede Over Walmart Worker

Pictures rounded out most of the top dugg stories of the week…

Not-quite-Engrish grabs 4844 diggs:

From The Onion, but truer than some might like (4496 diggs):

Ongoing fun with beauty pageants (4352 diggs):

Religion again (4496 diggs):

And from our friends at BuzzFeed…

A clear top story with 84,000 views, Lois Feldman gains internet infamy for having semi-public drunken bathroom sex. I cry (real) pics or it didn’t happen

In second place with almost 60,000 views is Michael Phelp’s new girlfriend, “cocktail waitress” Caroline Pal

The film Twilight hit theatres last week, but it’s star Kristen Stewart smoking a bowl in public that gets attention:

Boston.com’s (excellent) Big Picture highlights photography from the Mumbai terror attacks:

Switching gears to Reddit we see some attention to retouching, not dissimilar from our own Evan Roth’s Detouch project:

Ripe to be punched into Detouch, which highlights changed pixels. Code freely available of course (info)

And in more ER news, the highlight of my week… Evan does a music video for Jay-Z ! “Brooklyn Go Hard” w/ Santogold done with typographical illustration, which he originally developed while at Parsons (nudge nudge)

Catch the video’s ending credits? “Download Source Code” — one step closer to making open source the 6th element of hip-hop.

What’d you do this week?

“Thats what you get douchebag”

God’s Facebook page wins the week with 6,527 diggs:

Soooo funny (5,074 diggs):

Shocking:

Graphs still seem to be getting some love:

Signs still popular as ever:

Buzzfeed still interested in the election with 7 of the top 20 most viewed articles dealing with politics.

Baroque Obama:

Soulja Boy is back on the front page of Youtube with a new song and a new dance (ripe for remix material?):

The Weirdest Dog Ever seems to be sweeping the web this week:

Girl With Perl Earing:

Chicken Police!

Welcome Back from ImprovEverywhere on Vimeo.

Fetus Cookie Cutter:

Youtube contest to make a video that is “good”:

YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A ‘Good’ Video

This kid makes famo look so easy:

Once upon a time… from Capucha on Vimeo.

And last but not least is the event of the week:

New York Times Special Edition Video News Release – Nov. 12, 2008 from H Schweppes on Vimeo.

A bunch of us Internet Famous cats were lucky enough to skip out on class last night and get down on some Fake NY Times fun. Here are some photos from last nights fun and today’s insanity.

For more photos —> http://www.flickr.com/conwayl

I hope “the mission” is a smashing success. Make sure to come next week when we will be joined by Greg Barlow who will be teaching us the power of fame and the dark $ide. This is a man who knows that the internet is indeed serious business:

Digg:
And the number one most dugg article of the week, scoring 8684 diggs, is….. of course….. Sarah Palin being a dumb dumb:

Coming in 2nd with 7824 is Pedobear & Loli – Halloween 2008:

For more info on insider 4Chan memes please consult Prof. Dub.

Raise your hand if you attempted a nerdy Halloween costume? (I hope there are a lot of hands up, this is such an easy win)

Some Photoshopery claims 4796 diggs:

Smart presidential Debate mashup claims 4617 Diggs:

Buzzfeed has a good post on Internet Meme Halloween costumes…. lets take a moment to reflect:

And from youtube….

Who says your thesis can’t catch famo:

Some cat footage:

People serious about winning this class would adopt a cat on day one.

http://thisfuckingelection.com/ give us a nice blog-a-ble recap of the election:

Gum Election. A nice little street campaign:

Great John Williams movie themes, a capella:

Boring video, but a good hack:

Drawing with water is awesome:

God Hates Signs Protest of The Westboro Baptist Church:

LOLcats art show!

Pantone Rubik’s Cube:

Walkie-talkie feedback music:

Ok, that’s all I can muster this week. I have severe election fever and can’t be spending this long away from the headlines!

Digg:

#1 with 8644 diggs, and a whopping 2557 comments, I can’t imagine a President being named Obama:

Sneaky Restaurant Fail (alt. title: Bad Wall Design) claims 5739 Diggs.

They’ll never know puts 5012 in the bag:

Not surprising that the majority of the top 20 involve the presidential race (yawn). Can’t wait till we get back to slip-n-falls and cat videos.

Moving over to youtube:

Blatant middle frame grab action clocks in almost a million views on this rather lame McCain Palin rap:

Bigger than the Colin Powell endorsement was the return of the WASSSSUUP boys (2 million views and counting):

When politics is ruining your internet waves it’s always a good time to head over to break.com….. of the top 16 most viewed videos of the week only 1 has to do with the election.

The number one most viewed video of the week on break is, “Baby Elephant Knocks Out Old Man” (2 millions views +):

Baby Elephant Knocks Out Old Man – Watch more free videos

In honor of Prof. Dub’s reporting on the FAIL, I thought we’d do a new series called FAILING IN FAMO.

The 14th most viewed Break video of the week was a fail:

Massive Shopping Cart Fail by Two Morons

Massive Shopping Cart Fail by Two Morons – Watch more free videos

This is the all time most viewed FAIL video on break:

Fail – Watch more free videos

And the all time most viewed “EPIC FAIL” video on youtube (not sure if this really qualifies, you’ll have to as the prof):

The top 4 all time most dugg “EPIC FAIL” posts on Digg:

#1: English Language Epic Fail! [PIC] :

#2: Burger King epic FAIL [PIC]:

#3: Epic Fail: Palin can’t answer softball question on security

#4: Burger King: Out of Meet? (meat) [PIC]:

Burger King scoring 2 of the top 4 EPIC FAIL slots on Digg.

And the most popular EPIC FAIL images from a google images search:

For some famo reading homework, A Decade of Internet Superstars: Where Are They Now?, is a good overview of friends of famo past.

Over the top nerdy pumpkins is a no brainer famo win:

Buzzfeed brings us:

For more in famo reading assignments, Online Video Contest Guy makes $200,000 in cash and prizes from videos….. and you thought all you could get was an ‘A’?

And I will leave you with the most internet famo (infamo?) moment of the week, and ask you only this………. FAIL?

#2 on Digg for the week, with over 9k diggs, palinaspresident.us. ……where were you guys on this one. EASY FAMO!

With almost 7k diggs we have You Stole Our Obama Sign (PIC) . It’s a PIC, it’s a sign, it’s related to the presidential campaign…… it’s your #4 most dugg article of the week:

Coming in at the #6 spot with 6,642 diggs is the now infamous McCain Zombie.

The image was posted on Digg by user brown3218. If you track the static flickr URL (using this technique) you will find that it was uploaded by flickr account user brown3218 (coincidence?). Note that flickr only counts 30 views since the digg URL was to the static image. If you look through brown3218’s photo stream you will find a gold mine of such digg favorites as:

Cow curiousity fail [pic] (5,397 Diggs)

Don’t die, stay with me, damn it! [pic] (3745 Diggs)

Have you ever seen anything like this? (pic) (3907 Digss)

Instant Heart Attack (pic) (4908 Diggs)

Why Vote For McCain/Palin? (pic) (4307 Diggs)

Banksy Grafitti Removal (Pic) (5451 Diggs)

And a blast from week in famo #4:

Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru Action Figures (pic) (3666 Diggs)

Most of these are no doubt not his original content, but still…… dude is a digg jedi. Look through his flickr page and digg submission history; study his techniques. Brown3218 could win Internet Famous the Class for the next 20 years without having to touch a mouse.

Before we leave the McCain Zombie meme, it is worth noting that our own Prof. Dubs tasted some nice stumbledupon famo with his timely Zombie Nation post:

McCain Zombie also appeared in 3 articles in buzzfeed, including the 2nd most popular non-sex related article of the week:
- http://buzzfeed.com/meghanhenry/when-i-was-a-pow-we-didnt-have-brains-we-did-bom-1ot
- Fun With McCain
- Photoshopped McCain Zombie Images

funwithmccain.com and WFMU’s blog have particularly good McCain Zombie photoshop contests.

Highlights:

…phew….. ok, honestly that really tired me out. Lets move onto art famo of the week:

From Boing-Boing, the work of Zhang Huan getting some love:

Cholla the horse painter:

From Rhizome, ‘Loop’ is pretty hot:

Some really good stuff over at clubinternet.org:
Tazer Tests:

Untitled (KW):

Meditation.gif:

Also wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t mention Gamecocks – Garcia tackled by ref:

And lastly, EPIC FAIL on your Internet Famous Class Icons for the site banner! …..(Jamie/James, yell at them about this in your angry voice). I don’t want to click on any of those! Learned you nothing from Peretti?!?! Check out the article icons on buzzfeed… now those I want to click on.

Now go forth and famo.

- The #1 most popular article of the week on buzzfeed…… Sarah Palin’s SAT Scores?:

Followed with #19 Sarah Palin’s IQ?:

- 7 of the top 20 most popular articles on buzzfeed are Palin related.
- 13 of the top 20 have to do with sex. (And yes, I’m including the Naked Shorting article in this category).
- 4 of the top 20 have to do with Palin and Sex…. dare a I suggest Sex + Palin = famo?

From the land of Digg…

- Huffingtonpost.com has 3 of the weeks top dugg stories….1, 2, 3 (all surrounding Palin and McCain). Don’t let Jonah leave class today without learning his form of wizardry.

- Some blog title poetry wins the #1 place with Why Halloween Will Suck This Year:

- Has anybody done anything iphone related yet? Nerds love their iphones SO MUCH, this is an easy famo win.

- A personal favorite:

- 7 of the top 15 most dugg articles of the week were images.

- 6 of the top 15 most dugg articles were election related (losing steam already?).

- It’s nice when 4000+ diggs is this easy:

Boing Boing:

- Violent Cartoon Art:

- I’m pretty sure that cheeky DIY deserts are a recipe for famo (pun embarrassingly intended):

- He’s a cat, flushing the toilet:

- Nerds propose via twitter

- Dream Captcha:

- My pal Banksy is back in the blog-o-sphere:

- Don’t sleep on the Instructables DIY Halloween Contest. If you’ve been paying attention to this post then you already know that the sexiest Sarah Palin costume is going to win….. make it.

See you next week, and say hi to Jonah for me!