Re: Tumblr Is Missing From Apple’s App Store
Roseanne Devon
I'm still figuring that part out myself but I think the most important thing is to not give too much away too early. If you have plans to build a brand or content you want to release, keep it to yourself until you have all your ducks in a row because you never know who's watching and what they'll take from you without acknowledgment. When I started using this phrase though I had no idea people would run with it the way they did. I was just having a good time with my mutuals.
I\u2019m of the opinion that OG Tumblr was a Petri dish for creative expression and analysis for marginalized voices the same way that OG Twitter (pre-2014) and Vine was. A lot of those voices migrated to Twitter over the past few years once Tumblr lost popularity, bringing with them years of concepts and themes that then filter into larger consciousness due to Twitter\u2019s high % of users who work in media and entertainment being introduced to them and then sharing them with their (way bigger) networks You see it all the time: A video or meme or theme or clothing style or slang term gets hot due to shares/RTs/scalper accounts (accounts that are created for the sole purposing of stealing popular/viral memes and using that popularity (and your emotional response to said memes) to sell you something. This is a scalper account. Long story short: The culture gets stolen because it\u2019s really easy to do.
At first, I ignored it. The closest experience I\u2019ve had to western style or cowboy culture to-date was via my Mexican homies and their families (and via shopping for Dickies at western clothing/workwear stores like Alcala\u2019s here in Chicago) so that culture didn\u2019t resonate with me at first and I just chalked the whole thing to a. by-product of other cultural events going on around the time: the ascendance of country artist Kacey Musgraves into the mainstream pop world, that weird yodeling kid getting 15 mins of fame and the \u201Cwhat in tarnation\u201D meme. I was wrong. After doing some research, I landed at the account of Bri Malandro, a writer, analyst and Youtuber that reps Texas to the fullest. Since last year, she\u2019s been proudly sharing cultural analysis around the last 20+ years of western-inspired looks worn by the likes of Nelly, Mary J. Blige, the Knowles sisters and buzzing rappers like Megan Thee Stallion (Please do yourselves a favor and go listen to Tina Snow after reading this!!!!!!!!!!) and coined the phrase \u201Cyeehaw agenda\u201D.
When I reached out to you, I mentioned that I really wanted to talk to you about this trend now vs waiting until someone else stumbles on the concept and tries to take credit for it. Before we get started, do you have any thoughts about how the marginalized or people of color can get compensated as the \\\"creators\\\" of trends like this one? It\u2019s so hard to take credit for a concept or trend getting hot.
Of course. If you're talking about things like going to the Rodeo and farming, there's tons of people of color who make their living in those areas currently. Honestly, when I was growing up in the early 2000\u2019s for whatever reason, western gear was everywhere. This is where the main influence is for me because if you look back at the trends of the time, you'll see everyone from NSYNC to Mary J. Blige rocking some kind of frayed jean or studded belt. A lot of pop acts would wear a cowboy hat with their tank tops and top the look off with some rimless sunglasses or a fringe belt. It was just a really interesting time for fashion and I never saw it as something that wasn't for me because all of my favorite black entertainers were the ones pulling those looks off.
...So it feels like the mission (or agenda, I guess) isn\u2019t just about cataloging looks or documenting a trend that\u2019s happened over the years, but also to educate people on our history, right? What are we missing about our history that you feel the yeehaw agenda can tell us?
Texas plays a big part in that for me. My father played football for the Dallas Cowboys when I was younger so I'm always going to feel connected to that aesthetic. Also, my grandmother \u2014 who lived in Mississippi by the way \u2014 was obsessed with \\\"Walker Texas Ranger and never hesitated to let me know they filmed in Dallas, TX. On that show, Walker had a best friend named James who was black but they never made it the focus of the show, like they never pointed out their friendship or what they wore...like it was abstract. For everyone else, I'm hoping it will shed light on the fact that there were (and still are) black cowboys and cowgirls and (the culture) is not uncommon or anything you have to feel like you can't participate in.
For now you can follow The Yee Haw Agenda on IG (@theyeehawagenda). It's basically just a hub of black people \u2014 famous and non-famous \u2014 in their best Western looks. I'm having a lot of fun with that page right now and submissions are always welcome!
I am always looking for cool things to do with my Girl Scout troop, and I heard about field trips to the Apple Store through an online Girl Scout forum. I had also heard a rumor that the Apple Store would be discontinuing field trips, so I wanted to get our troop in for a class before there was any possibility of missing out. (I did ask at the store and was told that there was no plan to stop offering field trips).
I filled out a form on the Apple website, and was contacted not long after by an employee at the Apple Store. I was given a variety of options for our troop activity, and chose the Hour of Code with Sphero. Our meeting usually runs 6:30-7:30 on a weekday night, and they were able to accommodate our meeting time.
The night of the event, we arrived at the Apple Store and set up for the meeting. For this activity, girls could bring their own iPads, or use ones provided by the store. In order to use their own iPads, they had to download the Sphero Edu app. Only a few brought their own iPads, and none of the kids had any issues with their iPads or the ones loaned by the store.
The hardest part of the coding for them was grasping the concept of what degree turn their Sphero should make. And while some of them experimented with various degrees, others experimented with other facets of coding, like creating a loop or trying to figure out what speed to set their Sphero to.
Their challenge was to code their Sphero robot to maneuver through the maze. For this, you have to make a series of commands to tell it what direction (in degrees) to travel, how fast, and for how long. For example, 90 degrees, at a speed of 40, for 3 seconds. The next command would tell the Sphero robot to turn and travel the next length, and so on.
Since the girls struggled a little bit with figuring out degrees to turn their Sphero, they were just as happy to see what else the Sphero robots could do, from sounds to jumping. I loved that their hour of coding was versatile enough to get them thinking and checking out different possibilities.
Dear Marisa
I am a Girl Scout leader as well and we are always looking for something new and fun to do! I am going to contact an apple store (2 hours away only downfall) and see what they can do for us. We live in a small town so there is not much to do around here. If you have anymore ideas that maybe we might could explore that would be amazing!
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