http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/apocalypse/?q=taxonomy/term/3/0 A forum for discussion of the Lolapocalypse project. en http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/apocalypse/?q=node/62 <p>In case you guys didn't check out the link on the student news thing, we (well except astra and sam) got put into an admissions video for MHC.</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y78fcKRQvTo&amp;feature=related" title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y78fcKRQvTo&amp;feature=related">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y78fcKRQvTo&amp;feature=related</a></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/apocalypse/?q=node/62#comments Lolapocalypse Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:32:13 -0400 jkata 62 at http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/apocalypse http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/apocalypse/?q=node/46 <p>Joanna Kata and I, Lena Marvin, have decided our group project will be to create lolapocalypse imagry.&nbsp; Does anyone want to join our group?</p> <p>Lolcat is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meme">meme</a> that comes out of the image macro tradition.&nbsp; As is stated in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_macro">wikipedia's image macro article</a> &quot;An <b>image macro</b> is a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture" class="mw-redirect" title="Picture">picture</a> with digitally <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superimposed" title="Superimposed">superimposed</a> text, often for humorous effect. ... Another style of image macro that has amassed its own separate subculture is the &quot;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolcat" title="Lolcat">lolcat</a>&quot;, a photo of a cat with a humorous or idiosyncratic caption.&quot;</p> <p>Here are some examples of lolcats which have incorparted apocalptic themes.&nbsp; We will create our own lolapocalypse photos in the lolcat style, using the lolcat synataxical grammar and visiual style, but using apolocylatic imagry from throughout history.</p> <p><a href="http://www.lolcatbible.com/"><img alt="http://www.lolcatbible.com/images/c/c2/Ammo.jpg" src="http://www.lolcatbible.com/images/c/c2/Ammo.jpg" /></a></p> <p><img alt="http://www.lolsingularity.com/greygoo.jpg" src="http://www.lolsingularity.com/greygoo.jpg" /></p> <p><img alt="http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/funny-pictures-cats-umbrella-rain-flood.jpg" src="http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/funny-pictures-cats-umbrella-rain-flood.jpg" /></p> http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/apocalypse/?q=node/46#comments Lolapocalypse Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:29:28 -0500 hmarvin 46 at http://macaulay.cuny.edu/seminars/apocalypse