View allAll Photos Tagged Web
twitter.com/Athena21620181/status/1519342645922996225
This resource posted is for digital art and design, personal and commercial projects, digital learning, and more. All design content is from external sources from around the web.
Lifecaster creates buzz
By Scott Beveridge, Observer-Reporter
WASHINGTON, Pa. – The media buzz began swirling around Justine Ezarik after she received her first iPhone bill, one that itemized her text messages and calls across both sides of 300 pages.
Stories about the young woman and her fascination with mobile technology were picked up by USA Today, CNN, Fox News and CNBC, as well as hundreds of other media outlets, after she posted on her Internet blog a self-made video about the $274 bill so thick it came in a box.
“A friend of mine was in Spain and opened up a newspaper, a Spanish version: the iPhone bill with my picture on it,” said Ezarik, 23, a Scenery Hill native who is the current “It girl” on the Web.
The digital world took notice of Ezarik, who uses the screen name ijustine, in a big way in August. The short film about the bill was subsequently viewed more than 3 million times in 10 days and earned her $5,000 in ad revenues from her online host.
“Now I’m signed up for E-billing,” she said.
But the Internet never dies and ijustine is along for the ride while building a huge fan base.
She was the lead story on Yahoo’s home page two weeks ago because of the popularity she has gained from lifecasting her daily chores on two Web sites.
Whether capturing her travels from a mini-camera attached to her ball cap or pointed at her face from a table, Ezarik has become the star of justin.tv.
The new media company is the brainchild of Justin Kan, who is among the first to use mobile technology to stream live videos to a Web site. Broadcasters have free access and personal control over the look of their pages and the ability to chat with viewers.
There were more than 400 people tuned in when Ezarik showed up Monday to meet a reporter and cameramen from the Observer-Reporter at the Crazy Mocha coffee shop in Washington.
Most of her viewers say nice things, and some periodically dare her to perform the Chicken Dance polka in public places. She usually complies and breaks into the dance that requires hand signals to suggest duck quacks. She was drawing as many as 4,000 viewers at any particular moment after the Yahoo story hit.
“This is crazy. Why am I doing this?” she said.
Others have not been so nice, and complained that she has odd eyebrows, wears too much makeup or is too self-centered to think that anyone with a brain would want to watch her sleep.
“Many of her critics urged her to ‘get a life,’ ‘read a book’ and cease her ceaseless self-promotion,” a writer noted Aug. 29 on the popular news blog Pittsburgh Dish.
“People like to hate for whatever reason,” Ezarik said.
While some viewers think she is surfing the Internet while running her fingers through her hair at a coffee shop, Ezarik said she actually is editing videos or designing Web sites for her business.
The graduate of Pittsburgh Technical Institute now lives in Pittsburgh and also is spokeswoman for Pittsburgh Councilman Bill Peduto. Through her blogging, she has landed a job with Xtrain, a company that offers online expert training. Just this week, Warner Brothers was trying to track her down to invite her to appear on “The Tyra Banks Show.”
She’s unsure just how much longer she will be sharing her life with the digital world as a lifecaster.
“A lot of my friends don’t like it when they’re around. It’s too invasive,” she said.
But her father, Steve, of Scenery Hill, said he is beginning to like lifecasting in a era when many children Justine’s age forget to call their parents.
“At least we can follow her around,” he said.
Watch our video of ijustine
at youtube.
uploaded for Sue as requested :) This was part of Wet Webs 2 slide show below. I was walking in a web wonderland.
The areas of contrast to the right of the web are due to this being converted to black & white - they appeared with no adjustments aside from that.
B&W? Or colour?
Today I walked the girls into the nearby wood and used the brief spells of sunshine to illuminate todays images. So a couple of spiders webs a wet clock and leaf shadows.
"Imagine a multidimensional spider's web in the early morning covered with dew drops. And every dew drop contains the reflection of all the other dew drops. And, in each reflected dew drop, the reflections of all the other dew drops in that reflection. And so ad infinitum. That is the Buddhist conception of the universe in an image." -- Alan W. Watts
Poor bug is fighting for its life so hard that it's creating vibrations on the other strands of the web.
A garden spider web catching the sunlight beautifully as it filters through mum's Virginia Creeper laden oak tree. My old Soviet-era Helios 58/2 44M lens comes into it's own into the sun.
Life is so hard, isn't it?
We live tangled in all these webs...
An woof whose ending implies the end of our own existence.
Juliana Mello ©
® les-vers-de-juke
A macro of the spider web pattern on a witches hat.
I turn the vibrance up in lightroom to fetch the colours out
Taken for macro mondays theme halloween
... Once upon a time in a corral just like this ... ... ... ;)
Taken in the corrals at the inlaw's farmyard. I have a macro of this web I'll share soon :)
Click on 'All Sizes' to view this large!