My name is danah boyd and I'm a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, a Visting Researcher at Harvard Law School, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales. I received my PhD from the School of Information at UC-Berkeley. I spend 1/3 of my time in Cambridge, MA, 1/3 in New York, NY, and 1/3 in the air. Buzzwords in my world include: public/private, identity, context, youth culture, social network sites, social media. I use this blog to express random thoughts about whatever I'm thinking.

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very gay navy

OK… Japan continues to astound me. Thanks to Joi, check out Come for the Seamen, Stay for the Ship (a very gay Flash animation).

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5 comments to very gay navy

  • Jon

    oooh, fun fun! the village people have nothing on them!

    a favor/request: could you *not* put the Flash animation directly on the main page? put it in a popup, or by following a (More…) link, or whatever. since it has music, I just envision hearing that crazy song blaring out of my speakers every time i go to your blog for the next few weeks, or however long it takes to scroll off the bottom.

    thank you! :-)

  • Seaman Ship

    apophenia has word from Wirefarm about an ad shown in Shibuya. The intent? To recruit Japanese to join the Navy? Very much different from Army Of One ads I remember seeing in the States! Japan Today’s banterish crowd also has…

  • Seaman Ship

    apophenia has word from Wirefarm about an ad shown in Shibuya. The intent? To recruit Japanese to join the Navy? Very much different from Army Of One ads I remember seeing in the States! Japan Today’s banterish crowd also has…

  • John Poisson

    Yeah, I second that.

    Somehow early this morning while I slept another app crashed on my machine, exposing your page and the Seaman Boys in all their glory, their message of love spewing forth from my speakers proudly.

  • If I don’t put the video right there, how will the song get burned permanently into your brain, the way it is in mine?