Wes Unruh

Quaint Media and Today’s Memetic Ecology

by Wes Unruh October 14, 2009

This report begins where Gary Goldhammer begins, by stating that all media is social. The struggle today is between this notion of traditional, even quaint, media and convergence culture’s interactive narrative across a transmedia platform built for modular exposure of storytelling elements. Quaint media then is media that remains tied into a single …

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…A Man Leaves Town.

by Wes Unruh October 3, 2009

…A Man Leaves Town. A Yellow Sign Tale Wes Unruh Lucy whipped the batter. “My arm’s sore!” “Just a little bit longer, dear,” Mother said. “Until there’s no more clumps.” A box of cake mix and a can of diet coke mixed together, no egg, no water or oil. That’s not the way it said [...]

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A Man Comes To Town…

by Wes Unruh August 25, 2009

A Man Comes To Town… A Yellow Sign Tale Wes Unruh Twilight, new moon dancing through the sky where leaves twisted on the trees. Curt stared up through the window, laying across the backseat of the family car. Dad was driving. “We never go to church on Sunday nights.” Curt complained. “There’s a man coming [...]

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Philip K Nixon – 1ibereal (Remix)

by Wes Unruh August 10, 2009

Directed by Mystery X

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Obscenity Woven into High School Yearbook Cover

by Wes Unruh June 18, 2009 Week In Review

A high school student pulled one over on the school administration and graduated before her work was discovered. Sadly she’s been forced to pay for and apply stickers to the covers of all the remaining yearbooks, and, being the senior yearbook editor she’s probably feeling pretty fucking stupid… but I thought it was …

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The Art of Memetics on Amazon

by Wes Unruh June 9, 2009

The book @fenris23 and @zenwerewolf wrote and published is now on amazon – since it’s also freely available online via the snazzy image on the left sidebar over there, we only ask that, if you’ve enjoyed it or found it useful, that you let other amazon readers know by fleshing out the comments.

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Twin Peaks on CBS.Com

by Wes Unruh May 30, 2009

CBS is hosting the entire run of Twin Peaks! (Well, except for season 2 episode 18, which is mysteriously missing from their site. Fortunately there’s an excellent torrent out there where you might find the missing episode). One of my favorite television series, even with its occasional flaws, Twin Peaks is remarkably …

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The Yellow Sign: Timothy Leary’s Neurocomics & Promethea by Alan Moore

by Wes Unruh July 12, 2007 Uncategorized

One of my old roommates boasted a collection of Dr. Timothy Leary’s works that included nearly every single work in first printing that he had published, including a beat-up old copy of Start Your Own Religion, a well-thumbed What Does Wo/Man Want?, and a rather abused copy of The Politics of Ecstasy, but he didn’t [...]