I, Popeye is ‘s radical reinvention of everyone’s favorite cartoon sailor as a 3-D sad sack, confronted by inconsolable inadequacy and unspinachable ennui (as opposed to the sinister sexual schemes of his familiar foe, the interminably burly Bluto). It’s an unauthorized fan-fiction short film legally enabled by the archaic conventions of of European copyright law, which unexpectedly propelled Popeye into the public domain last year.

Murata twists a cartoon of heroic triumph into a litany of failure—the opposite of what Disney does when adapting a tale that, in the Grimms’ telling, doesn‘t end happily. The halting, minor-key version of the Popeye theme song in Devin Flynn and Ross Goldstein’s soundtrack and the leering, moneyed Popeye pictured on the anti-hero’s T-shirt—a caricature of pop-culture icon as commodity—are two details that contribute the video‘s effect. But the key factor is the medium itself. By rendering the characters in the kind of slick three-dimensional animation commonly associated with big-studio production, Murata intensifies and complicates the discrepancy between the official Popeye and his own “folk” version.

Murata’s short is on exhibit at The New Museum’s just-opened , which brings together a bevy of Internet and Internet-adjacent artists like , (!), and . This stupendous-sounding show, curated by Lauren Cornell of , also features the IRL premiere of Ryan Trecartin and David Karp’s revolutionary web video project, . Throughout Free‘s three-month run, the museum will be hosting a series of in-depth talks with the creators of such marvelous online entities as and . Delicious!

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Don’t miss Ceja’s terrifyingly hypnotic exhibition, , on and ‘s superb cyber-gallery, .

is well known for his wily literary accomplishments, which include writing a book called Shoplifting from American Apparel and then , inciting with his mysterious Internet pranks, and basing his latest novel, , around the suicidal angst shared between a pair of lovers named Haley Joel Osment and Dakota Fanning.

But when he’s not busy changing the face of literature or sparking hip hop-level firestorms of blogtroversy between improbably irascible haters and die-hard fanatics, Lin indulges himself in the . His subject? Hamsters. His tools of the trade? MS Paint, Photoshop and construction paper. At a book tour stop in L.A. Tao took the time to chat about his process, share some juicy details on his forthcoming iPhone App, viagra pills for sale, and gives us a quick lesson on how to draw a hamster.

Heavyweight world champion video artist has teamed up with the brilliantly innovative founder of Tumblr, , to invent an extraordinary new way of using language and cognition through online video. The fruit of their collaboration has just been unleashed on the Internet today, and it’s called .

The site combines the random nature of systems like Chatroulette and Stumbleupon with the creative conventions of YouTube and Vimeo, allowing anyone to anonymously upload a video clip up to 10 seconds in length, describe it in three tags, and then “throw it into the river for public viewing.” The interface-free front page of Riverofthe.net simply starts with a random video clip and then follows it with every other clip that shares that tag (displayed in the lower left corner). The only way to control what you’re seeing is to choose a new tag or add more content to the River. Essentially, the whole project is an endless film that is constantly evolving, never played in the same sequential order, and authored by everyone.

It sounds complicated, but actually it’s quite intuitive. I’m honestly flabbergasted at the plethora of possibilities this platform presents– but the best part is, it’s SO FUN! I hope everyone I know starts contributing to the River, shaping it into a massively layered and altogether unimaginable art piece. has a great where he explains the concepts behind the site in more detail. I’m posting a long-ish excerpt after the jump and viagra pills for salerecommending that you go in the River.

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Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of blogs today primarily act as aggregates for the digital refuse of 100 years of found photographs. Usually, they’re pretty hit or miss– but ADAMADAM is a constant goldmine. It’s so consistently rad in fact, that it was nearly impossible to whittle my favorite images down to the 31 featured in this brief overview. Shuck has developed a sharp curatorial eye over of squirreling away history on ADAMADAM, and the blog feels almost like an flowing, abstract queer commentary on masculinity’s function in contemporary society, quietly underscored by a sharp sense of humor. Or, you know, it could just be a bunch of weird pictures that are fun to look at.

Shuck also does something incredibly rare in the realm of found-photo blogs: cites sources. Nearly every image he posts is paired with a link back to the page it came from, frequently Flickr archives that can provide useful details about the image’s origin. It’s a small gesture that makes the entire project feel even more generous, and grounded in thoughtful discourse with the past. Now go yourself in .

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Giant Robot 67 also includes a great interview with , an investigation into Japan’s obsession with tricked-out big rig trucks, and ‘s gorgeous travelogue from her journey through Mongolia. It’s chock full of radness!

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The compositions themselves feel dangerously loose, like the camera has supernaturally drifted out of the photographer’s hand to focus on a seemingly benign, but seriously haunted background detail: an ominous piece of garbage, or a towering wedding dress that threatens to smother us if we get any closer. It somehow reminds me of Harris Savides’ memorable camerawork in viagra pills for sale, a reference point that could also be tied into to this next factor: almost all of Steciw’s photos are in a portrait orientation. It didn’t pop out at first, but upon closer observation it seems like an intentional subterfuge. Stewciw’s rigid portrait framing often works against her static subjects, producing a eerily calm sense of photographic perversion. Savides’ decision to shoot Elephant in the unusual (for modern movies) 1.37:1 aspect ratio produced strikingly similar feelings of anxiety in me. It’s the same feeling you get from watching a video someone’s shot in a portrait orientation on a digital camera or cell phone. Weird and somehow vulnerable.

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is the Don Draper of GIFs. No: she’s more like an auteur. 20 years from now, when James Cameron shatters box office records with the first feature-length GIF, historians will take note that Steph D. was the pioneer in bringing integrity and artistry to the format, and the Academy will present her with an honorary Oscar for her lifetime achievements in GIFmaking.

But it’s not just the medium, it’s the message: beyond the (hypothetically) visionary nature of Steph’s work in a technical sense, there’s also a substantial emotional impact permeating her pixels. Draw the rhythm of a beating heart on an axis of humor and terror and you start to get the picture. She can take something covertly frightening and use comedy to both negate and reinforce the horror of its existence—Pope Ratzinger, press-on nails, corporate aesthetics and spray-tanning, for instance. Now, the enfant terrible of Canadian new media graciously sheds some light on Maya 3D rendering, The Cheesecake Factory and 50 Cent’s tweets:

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