Hello! I’m John Weeks, developing innovative fundraising and communication strategies in Southeast Asia.

I particularly relish the challenge of growing nonprofit infrastructure. I’ve founded Our Books, Our Books Illustration and Design, House32 Web Design, and assisted in getting Open Development Cambodia and the ICT4 Cambodia Development Network off the ground.

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You Didn’t Believe 2014 Was ‘The Year Of Listicles’ – Here’s Why You Secretly Love It:

‘Unauthorized Culture’

Okay, okay – I’ve succumbed to using Pinterest, where I’m webbing up some notes on ‘unauthorized’ remix / fan art and how these often feed back into the original works.

For example, there’s rapper Adam Warrock, who’s devoted whole (free) albums to licensed properties. http://www.adamwarrock.com/

Also: Natasha Allegri’s ‘Fionna and Cake’ gender-swapped versions of Cartoon Network’s Finn and Jake (Adventure Time) grew from a simple cartoon…
Fionna and Cake
…to two episodes and a comic book! (The first episode remains the highest rated show of the whole series.)
(c) Natasha Allegri – above (initial) strip found via http://www.flickr.com/photos/84568447@N00/4860628206/

Then there are the more ‘off the grid’ folks such as Cave Clan, remapping what’s *public* land, but technically ‘off limits’.

Cave Clan
http://www.caveclan.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_Clan

Then there’s Inspector Spacet… whoops, I mean “Untitled Web Series about A Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time”.

Untitled Web Series About A Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time

Much much more at: http://pinterest.com/culturequery/

Note: All art here is (c) respective entities and artists. (For some, I’m working out a technical issue to get images to appear on the dang pin-board!)

Tags: The Filing Cabinet, unauthorized culture

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