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Vocaloids: Gateway to Geekery
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Why it’s Daunting: For fans of the William Gibson novel “Idoru”, her rise was foreseen. She topped the charts with a number two album in 2009 and a number one single on iTunes in 2012. Her name in Miku Hatsune, and she is a Vocaloid. Vocaloids are synthetic music software programs that anyone can purchase and use to edit and create songs. They can then upload the song to the web or make a CGI video with an avatar dancing and performing the song. Miku’s most popular web videos where compiled into albums and a devoted fan base developed. Americans ...
Vocaloids: Gateway to Geekery
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Why it’s Daunting: For fans of the William Gibson novel “Idoru”, her rise was foreseen. She topped the charts with a number two album in 2009 and a number one single on iTunes in 2012. Her name in Miku Hatsune, and she is a Vocaloid. Vocaloids are synthetic music software programs that anyone can purchase and use to edit and create songs. They can then upload the song to the web or make a CGI video with an avatar dancing and performing the song. Miku’s most popular web videos where compiled into albums and a devoted fan base developed. Americans ...
Gateways to Geekery
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Make a “Gateway to Geekery” post (in the style of The Onion AV Club’s posts) about a favorite director, actor, band, musician, writer, etc. Give an overview of his/her/their career(s), including sections on “Why It’s Daunting,” “Possible Gateway,” “Next Steps,” and “Where Not to Start.” Feel free to include Creative Commons photos, screenshots, embedded YouTube videos, etc. to liven up the text. Have fun!
From hell’s heart, I blog at thee.
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GATEWAY TO GEEKERY: HERMAN MELVILLE A picture of Herman Melville and his wife, Elizabeth, at their home (CC SirRonWong) Why It’s Daunting: Whoa, Herman Melville. Arguably the most important American writers of all time, Melville wrote what many think is the greatest novel ever written (certainly the greatest written by an American). But without a road map, the amount of work that Melville produced can be intimidating: nine novels (though Melville claimed Typee and Omoo were memoirs, they are generally considered to contain heaping piles of fictionalized material), dozens of stories and poem and one epic poem. The Library of ...
From hell’s heart, I blog at thee.
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GATEWAY TO GEEKERY: HERMAN MELVILLE A picture of Herman Melville and his wife, Elizabeth, at their home (CC SirRonWong) Why It’s Daunting: Whoa, Herman Melville. Arguably the most important American writers of all time, Melville wrote what many think is the greatest novel ever written (certainly the greatest written by an American). But without a road map, the amount of work that Melville produced can be intimidating: nine novels (though Melville claimed Typee and Omoo were memoirs, they are generally considered to contain heaping piles of fictionalized material), dozens of stories and poem and one epic poem. The Library of ...