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Published: 2009-12-04 07:01:51 +0000 UTC; Views: 14991; Favourites: 296; Downloads: 275
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An American Idol once said that “In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes!”The future is now!
I think this statement displays a profound awareness of human nature and is both a reflection and prediction central to the ideologies of the pop art movement …
In turn this passage inspired me to better understand humanity in the present world by trying to find out how Andy’s quote was relevant today. I soon began focusing on people’s insatiable relationship with the media. I needed to find the essence of fame in today’s culture and then find a way to cleverly and succinctly depict it.
My research had many focuses including advertising, photography, print, viral, word of mouth, television and of course web but my main focus areas soon became reality TV and the internet. From there I took an idea and found appropriate and specific examples that I thought would best convey my message.
To get a good understanding of the way Warhol thought I was forced to look closely at the inherent beauty within the subject matter, of things we see every day and pay little attention to. By harnessing the existing power of the chosen logos and reapplying them to Warhol’s saying I was then able to add validity to Andy’s words
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Comments: 81
DONT READ THIS. YOU WILL BE KISSED ON THE BEST DAY OF
YOUR LIFE. NOW THAT YOU'VE STARTED READING, DONT STOP. THIS IS SO
FREAKY. 1 say your name 10 times 2. say your mum's name 5 times and your
crushes name 3 times 4. paste this onto 4 other games. If you do this,
your crush will kiss you on the nearest Friday possible. But if you read
this and do not paste this, you will get bad luck. SEND THIS ON 5
DIFFERENT GAMES IN 143 MINUTES. WHEN YOUR DONE, PRESS F6 AND YOUR
CRUSHES NAME WILL APPEAR IN BIG LETTERS. THIS IS SO FREAKY IT ACTUALLY
WORKS
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you're welcome <3
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Great concept! I featured it in my journal: [link]
I hope you don't mind
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Huh,never thought of it like that.
This opens up so many doors in my head 
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Wow. It is actually rather disturbing how I instantly recognised all of these fonts/typefaces/logos (except the quotation marks and the word "for" - what are those?). An intriguing study and a powerful reminder of our society's obsession with fame and the media nowadays, although I would argue that reality TV rather than social networking is the primary perpetrator of the 15 minutes phenomenon.
All in all, I really like this
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thanks, good points but i think social networking effects a lot more people
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You've been featured in Korina's premium feature #12 !
Congrats
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he'd probably just smile, but that would be enough for me
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i can't even believe it...this is literally perfect XD 
amazing job!!
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ty, i came to the same realization before i made it, and this was the result
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*fave'd* ... Witty commentary on our current Net icons!
I'm not quite so sure that "the future is now," with the lifetime of many of these enterprises being relatively fickle and short, a flicker in the marketplace (even the several-owners-by-now Flickr {grin}).
Yet what's in the Net-now is well-connected, nearly universal in scope, and generating symbols with greater strength and reach (if not resonance) than ever before in history.
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yes, but at the same time, think about all of these ppl who have recently been discovered on youtube and what not and have actually been interviewed on tv shows such as Ellen and the Tyra show! there have actually been child singers who have been discovered because of sites like this (one of which was then given a contract through oprah [link] ) while a mans unique way of using his twitter account resulted in a tv show being based off of his tweets [link] 
it's remarkable what these sites have the potential to do, but i totally agree with what you're saying in terms of the lifespan of many sites of this nature XD look at myspace for instance o __ o;;
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interesting point - leaves the option open for a sequel i suppose...
and this can be renamed the future was then, opens up a whole new element to the concept
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I'm putting this on my Tumblr.
www.deaflogorrhea.tumblr.com
You are a genius!
Stay awesome...
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thanks man, wicked!!!
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go what? a million dollars - why thank you
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glad you feel the connection
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Is it possible to get a breakdown of what actual logos you used? I'm sitting here with my partner racking our brains trying to figure out all of the logos here!
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haha = that would be cheating
if you send me a note of the ones you've figured out i'll send you a reply with the rest
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Cool, nice concept. I like you how merged all those different logos of web sites
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ty, funny how things can just come together
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very well done, it's clear and bright,easy to read and free enough
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Wow, this is really cool~ It has a very strong visual impact, and what you wrote to go along with it was also interesting!
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This is pretty awesome =O
I love how you incorporated all the fonts and styles of those popular website logos.
Really great job!
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