Tokyo F.A.T
- Course Website: internetfamo.us/class
- Instructors: Jamie Wilkinson, James Powderly, Evan Roth
- Parsons: Fall 2007, Fall 2008
Just because a lot of people see your work doesn’t mean it’s good… but it does mean you’re famous — Internet Famous. This course dedicated to learning how to spread your work to the widest possible audience online. We are going to study the art and science of getting hits.
Internet Famous is the first algorithmically graded class in the history of academics. Custom Famotron software determines each student’s grade based on a quantitative measurement of their web fame.
Update: there are more burger vids here
A Warhol response video
Eating A Hamburger (w/ Rap Music) from jamiew on Vimeo.
Music: “Vibrationz” and “Beyondce” by Javelin
7-year old Latarian Milton stole his grandma’s car and beat her up at Wal-Mart.
Let us immortalize…
Shi Tao is serving a 10-year sentence in prison for writing articles calling for political reform in China. Yahoo helped put him there.
FuckFlickr is open-source image gallery software that won’t narc you out. We created it as an alternative to hosting your photos on a certain Yahoo-owned photo sharing site.
Download FuckFlickr 2.0 (PHP, 268kb .zip)
Check out our install at fffff.at/fuckflickr. For the full feature list, installation instructions and development info click here.
A big shoutout to Greg Leuch for serious code contributions to 2.0 — big plans for the future, too, like video support and Hydra-style federation. Oh, and version 2.0 has support for themes — drop yours in the comments.
The expressions published in this site are all in the public domain. You may enjoy, use, modify, snipe about and republish all F.A.T. media and technologies as you see fit.