Obama Me!

I came across this site Just in time for Obama's inauguration tommorow!
Inspired by Shepard Fairey's iconic poster.

See your own face in this!

Obamicon.Me

Irish Facebook Users

Statistics compiled by Mulley Communications from Facebook's advertising system show that Facebook in Ireland has doubled in size in 12 months, going from just under 200,000 Irish users in January 2008 to 400,980 users in January 2009.

Damien Mulley, from Mulley Communications, said the user profile showed that older social networkers were choosing to use Facebook over alternative sites, including MySpace and Bebo. While Bebo got the younger population interested in social networking, the adult population seem to be favouring Facebook. Social networks are not just where the kids are hanging out online, it's for all ages now.

1000 Record Covers

I received a lovely present of this book for Christmas! :)

Has loads of wonderful and wackly cd and record covers through the ages, and some rather cheesy ones too....



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Time To Pretend

Here's my video piece for vid production. all created by stop motion except for the clips from the film "21". volume levels made out of skittles. mannequin, russian dolls, barbies, dice, syringe, guess who and monopoly money all used in the making of this!
Camera Used : Canon 450D.
Edited using Audacity, After Effects, Motion, and Final Cut Pro.




MGMT - Time To Pretend from debbie hickey on Vimeo.

Number 1 xmas Toy!

While watching the top xmas toys countdown on TV over the weekend I was only delighted to see my favourite childhood Toy come in at number 1 as the top 100 xmas presents of all time as voted by their viewers. Hurrah for Lego. Here's the company's logo over the years :)

The present day logo looks quite different to 1936 eh ;)

Social networks the new government?

In Digital Media and Society today I was suprised to see the statistics for Obama's online campaign. One of them being that an exit poll stated that Obama had the vote of 70% of the under 25 year olds in the United States. Was this solely due to Obama's clever participation of facebook,twitter,flickr,linked In etc? What do you guys think, would Obama have won without the help of the internet? Personally I think it was a huge benefit to him as he spent a tremendous amount of time maintaining and updating all his OSNs which can not be said for McCain.

Typefaces come alive!

I really like this video, it gives a true persona to every font type :)
I thought it was very well made! The collegehumor group have some pretty weird and wonderful videos! Have a look