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...very taken with the idea of consumers creating content for the Internet. With the advent of blogs, tagging, personal profiles, garage band music and amateur web videos, instant notoriety is just an "upload" click away. The sheer volume of user content is staggering. Wikipedia's user-created entries have surpassed the 5 million mark. In 2006 YouTube announced that it had served over 100 million video clips per day. With such vast libraries of lip-synched videos and episodes of LonelyGirl15, the numbers seem to indicate that this phenomenon has gone mainstream...
...resident’s $75 student activities fee (or at least that’s our hope). With Mather’s roughly 430 residents, that would amount to $33,000—or approximately 4 times the amount of funding that the UC currently provides Mather HoCo. The sheer amount of fun that those funds would provide is simply unfathomable...
...today observers in Portsmouth's Prescott Park saw a glimpse of the error screen the campaign currently faces. A modest crowd ("Oh, yeah, I've seen a lot more," said a local connoisseur) milled about while a speaker from a veterans' group tried to gin up some excitement with sheer volume: "Mah-CAIN! Mah-Cain!" he thundered. "We want McCain...
...strong, were not spectacular, and it accordingly leaned heavily on warm harmonies and stayed away from melodic bravado. Likewise, many jokes flopped on the first go-round, but took off when they reappeared a few minutes later, as though the cast was able to make a scene funny by sheer determination...
...individual titles for a series of identically-sized photographs (a modest 6” x 8”), which, evoking urban sprawl, are assembled on a loose grid. Many look as though they were taken from a moving car, not because of blurriness, but because of the sheer inattention paid to composition. Adjaye seems to operate with few artistic guidelines other than keeping the building, monument, or general architectural oddity in the frame.Together, however, the photographs form something incredibly impressive. Adjaye curated the exhibit, himself, and his own architectural skills come out in the design and organization of the exhibition...