The big hit of the week is of course…. our nations president dodging shoes (8874 Diggs):

I Found Him! claims 6293 with a simple wave of the pen tool:

I don’t even eat meat and I think the bacon weave is dope (4751 Diggs):

Why People Write “First” in the comments (3586):

#1 for the week on Buzzfeed is Parson’s alumn Becky Stern’s Private Browsing Sweater:

And what would a good meme be without some animated gif remixes:

The most “awesome viral videos of 2008″ according to videogum:

Soft 9-11:

Iraqi Reporter Throws Shoes At Bush claims 17 of the top 20 most viewed youtube clips of the week.

Internet art all star (and personal favorite) Oliver Laric makes youtubes front page featured section with his clipart annimation (if you haven’t seen his work be sure to check it out):

If someone just slaps some west coast rap ontop of this I’m guaranteeing some famo:

Skills With A 15 Ton Front Loader – Watch more Entertainment

3D Cursor:

fffff.at resident tobi-x claims some famo with Pirates of the Amazon….. Great project, great title.

ER over and out.

“Thats what you get douchebag”

God’s Facebook page wins the week with 6,527 diggs:

Soooo funny (5,074 diggs):

Shocking:

Graphs still seem to be getting some love:

Signs still popular as ever:

Buzzfeed still interested in the election with 7 of the top 20 most viewed articles dealing with politics.

Baroque Obama:

Soulja Boy is back on the front page of Youtube with a new song and a new dance (ripe for remix material?):

The Weirdest Dog Ever seems to be sweeping the web this week:

Girl With Perl Earing:

Chicken Police!

Welcome Back from ImprovEverywhere on Vimeo.

Fetus Cookie Cutter:

Youtube contest to make a video that is “good”:

YouTube Contest Challenges Users To Make A ‘Good’ Video

This kid makes famo look so easy:

Once upon a time… from Capucha on Vimeo.

And last but not least is the event of the week:

New York Times Special Edition Video News Release – Nov. 12, 2008 from H Schweppes on Vimeo.

I hope “the mission” is a smashing success. Make sure to come next week when we will be joined by Greg Barlow who will be teaching us the power of fame and the dark $ide. This is a man who knows that the internet is indeed serious business:

Digg:
And the number one most dugg article of the week, scoring 8684 diggs, is….. of course….. Sarah Palin being a dumb dumb:

Coming in 2nd with 7824 is Pedobear & Loli – Halloween 2008:

For more info on insider 4Chan memes please consult Prof. Dub.

Raise your hand if you attempted a nerdy Halloween costume? (I hope there are a lot of hands up, this is such an easy win)

Some Photoshopery claims 4796 diggs:

Smart presidential Debate mashup claims 4617 Diggs:

Buzzfeed has a good post on Internet Meme Halloween costumes…. lets take a moment to reflect:

And from youtube….

Who says your thesis can’t catch famo:

Some cat footage:

People serious about winning this class would adopt a cat on day one.

http://thisfuckingelection.com/ give us a nice blog-a-ble recap of the election:

Gum Election. A nice little street campaign:

Great John Williams movie themes, a capella:

Boring video, but a good hack:

Drawing with water is awesome:

God Hates Signs Protest of The Westboro Baptist Church:

LOLcats art show!

Pantone Rubik’s Cube:

Walkie-talkie feedback music:

Ok, that’s all I can muster this week. I have severe election fever and can’t be spending this long away from the headlines!

Digg:

#1 with 8644 diggs, and a whopping 2557 comments, I can’t imagine a President being named Obama:

Sneaky Restaurant Fail (alt. title: Bad Wall Design) claims 5739 Diggs.

They’ll never know puts 5012 in the bag:

Not surprising that the majority of the top 20 involve the presidential race (yawn). Can’t wait till we get back to slip-n-falls and cat videos.

Moving over to youtube:

Blatant middle frame grab action clocks in almost a million views on this rather lame McCain Palin rap:

Bigger than the Colin Powell endorsement was the return of the WASSSSUUP boys (2 million views and counting):

When politics is ruining your internet waves it’s always a good time to head over to break.com….. of the top 16 most viewed videos of the week only 1 has to do with the election.

The number one most viewed video of the week on break is, “Baby Elephant Knocks Out Old Man” (2 millions views +):

Baby Elephant Knocks Out Old Man – Watch more free videos

In honor of Prof. Dub’s reporting on the FAIL, I thought we’d do a new series called FAILING IN FAMO.

The 14th most viewed Break video of the week was a fail:

Massive Shopping Cart Fail by Two Morons

Massive Shopping Cart Fail by Two Morons – Watch more free videos

This is the all time most viewed FAIL video on break:

Fail – Watch more free videos

And the all time most viewed “EPIC FAIL” video on youtube (not sure if this really qualifies, you’ll have to as the prof):

The top 4 all time most dugg “EPIC FAIL” posts on Digg:

#1: English Language Epic Fail! [PIC] :

#2: Burger King epic FAIL [PIC]:

#3: Epic Fail: Palin can’t answer softball question on security

#4: Burger King: Out of Meet? (meat) [PIC]:

Burger King scoring 2 of the top 4 EPIC FAIL slots on Digg.

And the most popular EPIC FAIL images from a google images search:

For some famo reading homework, A Decade of Internet Superstars: Where Are They Now?, is a good overview of friends of famo past.

Over the top nerdy pumpkins is a no brainer famo win:

Buzzfeed brings us:

For more in famo reading assignments, Online Video Contest Guy makes $200,000 in cash and prizes from videos….. and you thought all you could get was an ‘A’?

And I will leave you with the most internet famo (infamo?) moment of the week, and ask you only this………. FAIL?

#2 on Digg for the week, with over 9k diggs, palinaspresident.us. ……where were you guys on this one. EASY FAMO!

With almost 7k diggs we have You Stole Our Obama Sign (PIC) . It’s a PIC, it’s a sign, it’s related to the presidential campaign…… it’s your #4 most dugg article of the week:

Coming in at the #6 spot with 6,642 diggs is the now infamous McCain Zombie.

The image was posted on Digg by user brown3218. If you track the static flickr URL (using this technique) you will find that it was uploaded by flickr account user brown3218 (coincidence?). Note that flickr only counts 30 views since the digg URL was to the static image. If you look through brown3218′s photo stream you will find a gold mine of such digg favorites as:

Cow curiousity fail [pic] (5,397 Diggs)

Don’t die, stay with me, damn it! [pic] (3745 Diggs)

Have you ever seen anything like this? (pic) (3907 Digss)

Instant Heart Attack (pic) (4908 Diggs)

Why Vote For McCain/Palin? (pic) (4307 Diggs)

Banksy Grafitti Removal (Pic) (5451 Diggs)

And a blast from week in famo #4:

Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru Action Figures (pic) (3666 Diggs)

Most of these are no doubt not his original content, but still…… dude is a digg jedi. Look through his flickr page and digg submission history; study his techniques. Brown3218 could win Internet Famous the Class for the next 20 years without having to touch a mouse.

Before we leave the McCain Zombie meme, it is worth noting that our own Prof. Dubs tasted some nice stumbledupon famo with his timely Zombie Nation post:

McCain Zombie also appeared in 3 articles in buzzfeed, including the 2nd most popular non-sex related article of the week:
- http://buzzfeed.com/meghanhenry/when-i-was-a-pow-we-didnt-have-brains-we-did-bom-1ot
- Fun With McCain
- Photoshopped McCain Zombie Images

funwithmccain.com and WFMU’s blog have particularly good McCain Zombie photoshop contests.

Highlights:

…phew….. ok, honestly that really tired me out. Lets move onto art famo of the week:

From Boing-Boing, the work of Zhang Huan getting some love:

Cholla the horse painter:

From Rhizome, ‘Loop’ is pretty hot:

Some really good stuff over at clubinternet.org:
Tazer Tests:

Untitled (KW):

Meditation.gif:

Also wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t mention Gamecocks – Garcia tackled by ref:

And lastly, EPIC FAIL on your Internet Famous Class Icons for the site banner! …..(Jamie/James, yell at them about this in your angry voice). I don’t want to click on any of those! Learned you nothing from Peretti?!?! Check out the article icons on buzzfeed… now those I want to click on.

Now go forth and famo.

- The #1 most popular article of the week on buzzfeed…… Sarah Palin’s SAT Scores?:

Followed with #19 Sarah Palin’s IQ?:

- 7 of the top 20 most popular articles on buzzfeed are Palin related.
- 13 of the top 20 have to do with sex. (And yes, I’m including the Naked Shorting article in this category).
- 4 of the top 20 have to do with Palin and Sex…. dare a I suggest Sex + Palin = famo?

From the land of Digg…

- Huffingtonpost.com has 3 of the weeks top dugg stories….1, 2, 3 (all surrounding Palin and McCain). Don’t let Jonah leave class today without learning his form of wizardry.

- Some blog title poetry wins the #1 place with Why Halloween Will Suck This Year:

- Has anybody done anything iphone related yet? Nerds love their iphones SO MUCH, this is an easy famo win.

- A personal favorite:

- 7 of the top 15 most dugg articles of the week were images.

- 6 of the top 15 most dugg articles were election related (losing steam already?).

- It’s nice when 4000+ diggs is this easy:

Boing Boing:

- Violent Cartoon Art:

- I’m pretty sure that cheeky DIY deserts are a recipe for famo (pun embarrassingly intended):

- He’s a cat, flushing the toilet:

- Nerds propose via twitter

- Dream Captcha:

- My pal Banksy is back in the blog-o-sphere:

- Don’t sleep on the Instructables DIY Halloween Contest. If you’ve been paying attention to this post then you already know that the sexiest Sarah Palin costume is going to win….. make it.

See you next week, and say hi to Jonah for me!

Limited edition famo certificate by Ireneface. Class photo by Famous Andrew

lazerportraits.tumblr.com by Emily Coxe Lindsey Weber:

You begged your mom to pay the extra $4. A tribute to the greatest school photo backdrop there ever was.

dan2600 also shared some graphics for photoshoppery:

- 11 of to 15 most Dugg articles about politics.

- Digg front page weekly tallies by candidate:
Palin = 25,272 Diggs
McCain = 23,671 Diggs
Obama = 5,418 Diggs

Star Wars gags will always be gold:

- And in Youtube news…… it was really boring this week.

Has anybody been making cat videos yet? If there are no hands up right now then you aren’t trying.

Cat Back Flip Gone wrong – Watch more free videos
(Great title)

And in art news:

Gif Dump from Mark Brown on Vimeo
More work by Mark Brown

Vertical Sleeping….. Jamie O’Shea is a beast.

Paris Hilton collage made of porn images by Jonathan Yeo

“Yeo is offering Paris 100% of the proceeds from the sale of the posters because she never received any money from her infamous 2004 sex video with then-boyfriend Rick Salomon.”….. nice touch.

Hot Tub in a Dumpster

Ok, back to non-arty Internet Famo…..

Chinese schoolgirl flips off old begging woman. (Ripe for re-mix action).

And from Buzzfeed:

McCain’s Left Eye…. WTF?!

Everybody is talking about the The Greatest Catch Of All Time

Could be fun re-mix material in a “What really happened” kind of way.

Mustachioed 50 Cent

And lastly (and perhaps my favorite of the week), Darth Vader being a smartass…. great idea, well executed, good title, and Darth Vader.

(For more moments in Vader history in Internet Fame see Vader On Wheel Of Fortune….. classic).

- All of the top 12 most viewed articles of the week on buzzfeed either have to do with sex or the presidential race…. all of them.

On digg the #1 most dugg article of the week is a perfect example of web judo. 5 days ago a post about Sarah Palin’s email account being hacked was created which claimed over 6300 diggs (making it the 6th most popular digg article of the week). One day later the onion posted this image on digg under the title Barack Obamas GMail Account Leaked !! (pic) , making if the #1 must dugg article of the week with almost 10,000 diggs.

- “That’s What She Said” is a nice little pulp media project that claimed over 5700 diggs:

- 9 of the top 15 articles on digg were about politics.

- It’s nice when a simple image macro steals 5800 diggs:

And from Boing Boing:

- I’m putting this one in just so Jamie has to explain what a Goatse is:

- Abu Ghraib coffee table:

- Remixed Signage:

- Atari Modern Classics:

We’ll start with Digg again:

- The #1 most dugg article of the week with a whopping 14,292 diggs is You should never ask for help on the internet. One thing we know that the internet loves is sincerity, and I think part of this posts popularity is that you can really feel Peaveh’s pain as he is gotten by nerds with photoshop skills. Great example of title poetry as well.

- The #3 most dugg was Matt Damon’s Sarah Palin statement. Could be good re-mix material?

- Is this one really worth 6050 Diggs! I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again…. NERDS LOVE WORD PUNS.

- Cats will never go out of style on the internets:

- Palin/McCain tally = 13 in the top 30

- And here is some more evidence to support the nerds love signs theory:
Church signs scores 4,648 diggs, while the ‘security’ sign scores 5,088 diggs.

Since we are after all in an MFA program I thought it might be worth while to take a departure into some art famo from last week:

From rhizome.org we have:

- How to make a perfect Malevich using only basic HTML:

- MGM (1975) – Jack Goldstein:

- Jonathan Schipper’s Slow motion car crashes:

- form study #9 (2008) – Robert Wodzinski

- vvork.com brings us this new one by John Michael Boling:

From we-make-money-not-art.com:

- Manifesta: the Chernobyl’d Matrioska

And moving right along to the world of BuzzFeed:

- The number one most viewed article of the week on BuzzFeed is…. Howard Stern auctioning off the virginity of 22-year-old San Diego student Natalie Dylan to help her finance her college education.

- miracle toast maker:

- Human catapulting:

- From the Internet Famous team that brought you Coke and Mentos:

EepyBird’s Sticky Note experiment from Eepybird on Vimeo.

- The Internet can’t get enough Kanye:

- Melted Sign:

- Freestyle Battle Rap Translated:

And a couple of personal favorites, and examples of solid one day projects:

- Every Photoshop Filter. This has high damn, I wish I thought of that value.

- And LHC Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment Webcams. Timely and well executed.