ChasNote

Web Scout at LA Times liked this campaign too:

“Web Scout’s First Law of Internet Culture: 99% of everything is crap.

“This law holds true for Facebook’s application cosmos, which is up to 15,000 apps and counting. It’s true of flickr, of the podcast world, for blogs obviously, Web pages too, and for online video, it’s the truest thing of all. YouTube has nearly 70,000,000 videos, so many of which are terrible that you wouldn’t be mathematically remiss by rounding its crap fraction up to 100%.

“But hey, I’m not a glass is 100% empty kind of guy, so it’s always great to stumble onto stuff in that rarefied golden microdroplet of net culture that contains the best, coolest and most imaginative stuff out there.

“Facebook’s Graffiti application is wrapping up its ‘ReGeneration Contest,’ sponsored by Dell, where online artists were invited to use the app’s painting tools to ‘explain what green means to you.’

“The images produced by the 150 finalists are a testament to the depth of artistic talent out there in Internet land. Moreover, it’s a treat to use Graffiti’s ‘Replay’ feature, where viewers can watch a recording of each work being created, stroke for stroke.”

(Artist credit: Rose Peng)