Gadgetory

hi I'm Paul the verge I'm at the Museum moving image with Jason asta curator here and you do a lot of the digital media stuff exactly yes and you got gifts I got gifts I got a wallet gifts for you are these the first gifts that you've placed in this museum then the first ones that have been here since I've been here I was just watching upstairs I got a little Charlie Chaplin like flip butcher hey there was a lot of site guards a lot of pratfall a little similar right which is a lot of gifts are I mean you know gifts or maybe even sort of like a new kind of foot book you know like a very short five-second the story or something so these are part of a photoshop thread on something awful that was called what trip tell Hadji Diouf El Hadji Diouf is a soccer player right who played for the Rangers and so he was clobbered by an opponent right actually we show you have the original yeah the originals over here it was posted by teeth in he was actually lives in Brooklyn okay who sort of mysteriously said I'm not allowed I'm illegally not allowed to actually touch photo manipulation software when he posted this and he said yeah but he said but here's the thing I found and I would love to see this one this one and this one together okay and then said I would love to see what everyone had something awful we could do over 100 entries came in inserting pop-culture video games sight-gags what's crazy to me that I've seen almost all of it yeah I used to go to fark.com Alam and they did these photoshop threads similarly where somebody erases everything yeah for exactly somebody cuts just the guy out so that he can be in any setting yeah like in solitaire there's one where it's just the ball right yeah over here I love these meta which this available starts to seem like a really artistically how esoteric do you get with like this is a new medium or anything like that what I'm interested in is how people are using these tools to communicate on a daily basis yeah because these tools are so cheap and so readily available we're finding that people are just using this as another tool to like tell jokes or have conversation and that's what I think is really just thing about about this threads that tells the story of some people who don't claim to be artists you know there's you know I don't have titles they're not aspiring to any lofty goals they I think also one of the other interesting things about this for me is how they're used like especially on reddit like to respond to a post instead of like writing like I like this or oh this is gonna get good right you know they're like these sort of canonized gifts it's like a new emoticon yes