Friday, November 28, 2008
black friday?
So today was black friday and all i bought was some icecream, which had no discounts. The day went past unnoticed to me. my family doesnt shop alot and i dont watch that much tv so there was no way for me to get hyped out it. Some of my other friends who shop more then me got very excited. Its funny that the day after you are thankfull for all that you have, you decided that you dont have enough and go shopping.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
media messages
“There's a war going on for your mind. Media mavens mount surgical strikes from trapper keeper collages and online magazine racks.” (Flobots) In our daily lives the media shove messages in our faces about how to be happy. They show pictures of models and tell you that you too can have flatter abs. There is no tolerance for being different. There is known “you could try this product, but you’re still beautiful with out it”. Usually the messages are clear, but sometimes you have to analyze.
Many remember the ads on the subway for Trimspa. Until her passing the star of the ads was Anna Nicole Smith. One advertisement Shows Smith, coming out of the water in a wet suit and holding a surf board. This is suppouse to be an image of the good life. The advertisement almost seems to say that you can have this life too. Along the side of the picture there are smaller pictures of other people who have lost weight. In the after picture all of them are standing on a beach. The only way you would know this ad is trying to sell a pill is by the small bottle in the corner. Next to the bottle it says “are you ready”. This gives the idea that you can look good and be on a beach when ever you decided to start taking the drug. This ad says that the meaning of life is to be able to look good on some beach.
VH1 has a show called I Love Money. It is a battle between 15 contestants. The one who lasts the longest gets $250,000. They stick the 15 people in one house and turn on the cameras. The show comes out to be a bunch of people who will do anything for money; in most cases it involves a small loss of dignity. This is a common theme in pop culture. Do what ever you have to do to get money. Or as Curtis Jackson puts it “Get rich, or die trying”. This message means that life is only good when you have a lot of money. You may be happy now, but you’ll be even better with more money. It also portrays the message of the ends justify the means. You can do anything from dance drunk on a table to spit on some one, as long as it gets you money its ok. In one they go around asking people to do stupid things for money. One example is for $100 a guy got a tattoo, but he didn’t know what tattoo he was getting. It ended up being an embarrassing tattoo that questioned his sexuality. Unfortunately tattoo removal surgeries cost more then $100. VH1 gives the message that the solution to all problems is to get a lot of money.
Many remember the ads on the subway for Trimspa. Until her passing the star of the ads was Anna Nicole Smith. One advertisement Shows Smith, coming out of the water in a wet suit and holding a surf board. This is suppouse to be an image of the good life. The advertisement almost seems to say that you can have this life too. Along the side of the picture there are smaller pictures of other people who have lost weight. In the after picture all of them are standing on a beach. The only way you would know this ad is trying to sell a pill is by the small bottle in the corner. Next to the bottle it says “are you ready”. This gives the idea that you can look good and be on a beach when ever you decided to start taking the drug. This ad says that the meaning of life is to be able to look good on some beach.
VH1 has a show called I Love Money. It is a battle between 15 contestants. The one who lasts the longest gets $250,000. They stick the 15 people in one house and turn on the cameras. The show comes out to be a bunch of people who will do anything for money; in most cases it involves a small loss of dignity. This is a common theme in pop culture. Do what ever you have to do to get money. Or as Curtis Jackson puts it “Get rich, or die trying”. This message means that life is only good when you have a lot of money. You may be happy now, but you’ll be even better with more money. It also portrays the message of the ends justify the means. You can do anything from dance drunk on a table to spit on some one, as long as it gets you money its ok. In one they go around asking people to do stupid things for money. One example is for $100 a guy got a tattoo, but he didn’t know what tattoo he was getting. It ended up being an embarrassing tattoo that questioned his sexuality. Unfortunately tattoo removal surgeries cost more then $100. VH1 gives the message that the solution to all problems is to get a lot of money.
media messages
“There's a war going on for your mind. Media mavens mount surgical strikes from trapper keeper collages and online magazine racks.” (Flobots) In our daily lives the media shove messages in our faces about how to be happy. They show pictures of models and tell you that you too can have flatter abs. There is no tolerance for being different. There is known “you could try this product, but you’re still beautiful with out it”. Usually the messages are clear, but sometimes you have to analyze.
Many remember the ads on the subway for Trimspa. Until her passing the star of the ads was Anna Nicole Smith. One advertisement Shows Smith, coming out of the water in a wet suit and holding a surf board. This is suppouse to be an image of the good life. The advertisement almost seems to say that you can have this life too. Along the side of the picture there are smaller pictures of other people who have lost weight. In the after picture all of them are standing on a beach. The only way you would know this ad is trying to sell a pill is by the small bottle in the corner. Next to the bottle it says “are you ready”. This gives the idea that you can look good and be on a beach when ever you decided to start taking the drug. This ad says that the meaning of life is to be able to look good on some beach.
VH1 has a show called I Love Money. It is a battle between 15 contestants. The one who lasts the longest gets $250,000. They stick the 15 people in one house and turn on the cameras. The show comes out to be a bunch of people who will do anything for money; in most cases it involves a small loss of dignity. This is a common theme in pop culture. Do what ever you have to do to get money. Or as Curtis Jackson puts it “Get rich, or die trying”. This message means that life is only good when you have a lot of money. You may be happy now, but you’ll be even better with more money. It also portrays the message of the ends justify the means. You can do anything from dance drunk on a table to spit on some one, as long as it gets you money its ok. In one they go around asking people to do stupid things for money. One example is for $100 a guy got a tattoo, but he didn’t know what tattoo he was getting. It ended up being an embarrassing tattoo that questioned his sexuality. Unfortunately tattoo removal surgeries cost more then $100. VH1 gives the message that the solution to all problems is to get a lot of money.
Many remember the ads on the subway for Trimspa. Until her passing the star of the ads was Anna Nicole Smith. One advertisement Shows Smith, coming out of the water in a wet suit and holding a surf board. This is suppouse to be an image of the good life. The advertisement almost seems to say that you can have this life too. Along the side of the picture there are smaller pictures of other people who have lost weight. In the after picture all of them are standing on a beach. The only way you would know this ad is trying to sell a pill is by the small bottle in the corner. Next to the bottle it says “are you ready”. This gives the idea that you can look good and be on a beach when ever you decided to start taking the drug. This ad says that the meaning of life is to be able to look good on some beach.
VH1 has a show called I Love Money. It is a battle between 15 contestants. The one who lasts the longest gets $250,000. They stick the 15 people in one house and turn on the cameras. The show comes out to be a bunch of people who will do anything for money; in most cases it involves a small loss of dignity. This is a common theme in pop culture. Do what ever you have to do to get money. Or as Curtis Jackson puts it “Get rich, or die trying”. This message means that life is only good when you have a lot of money. You may be happy now, but you’ll be even better with more money. It also portrays the message of the ends justify the means. You can do anything from dance drunk on a table to spit on some one, as long as it gets you money its ok. In one they go around asking people to do stupid things for money. One example is for $100 a guy got a tattoo, but he didn’t know what tattoo he was getting. It ended up being an embarrassing tattoo that questioned his sexuality. Unfortunately tattoo removal surgeries cost more then $100. VH1 gives the message that the solution to all problems is to get a lot of money.
Monday, November 17, 2008
VH1 is one of the strongest displayers of materialistic life styles. from the show cribs to I love money, Vh1 shows have a strong message that to have a happy and meaningful life you have to be rich. Untop of that they show reality shows where people do crazy things for money. this gives the message of the end justifies the means. you can do what ever you want, even sell your soul, as long as at the end you get alot of money. VH1 says that the best way to improve your life is to get alot of money, and when you have all this money your life will be good.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Thoughts on the election:
When Obama was announced the 44th president my apartment went wild. i could hear jumping from the floor above, cheering, and even a birthday horn. While all of this went on, i checked my email. For some reason i was the least excited about the election then anyone i know. I had friends my age wearing Obama buttons before i even knew who he or Mccain was. This brings up the question; am i just another ignorant un educated teen, or do i have a realistic point of view.
I have a friend who wore obama buttons and shirts before it was cool. I never got why kids do all of that. They spend money on T-shirts and Buttons so they can tell the world who, if they were old enough, would vote for. Infact I dont even think she is for Obama, i think her parents are. When i look at kids who cant vote and yet fight for a polition, i dout they had done enough researche on both nominees and put enough educational thought into the matter to really pick wich one they like more. What i see is the parents brainwashing their kids into rebulicans or democrats and then the kid fighting for the only side they know.
It is clear that i am the total opposite. In this writting i wont call obama a republican or a democrat, because while i think he is a democrat..im not really sure. It was only this year that i became pretty sure hes a democrat. before now i had no idea who was who. All i see are a group of men who use excitting words like change, but then dont ever say how. I have no problem with it either. I could do the researche, wear buttons, hand out fliers that will be not read and thrown out; or i could just do what i would do at this time in any other year. The fact is what ever i choose, the same guy will be elected he will make the same desicions and ill still be a high school student with no job waitting to break free of my parents. I have no problem with the people who put up sighns in thier door that say OBAMA. When the end of the election comes, they will be just as politically active as i was during the champain. (see i cant even spell it)
When Obama was announced the 44th president my apartment went wild. i could hear jumping from the floor above, cheering, and even a birthday horn. While all of this went on, i checked my email. For some reason i was the least excited about the election then anyone i know. I had friends my age wearing Obama buttons before i even knew who he or Mccain was. This brings up the question; am i just another ignorant un educated teen, or do i have a realistic point of view.
I have a friend who wore obama buttons and shirts before it was cool. I never got why kids do all of that. They spend money on T-shirts and Buttons so they can tell the world who, if they were old enough, would vote for. Infact I dont even think she is for Obama, i think her parents are. When i look at kids who cant vote and yet fight for a polition, i dout they had done enough researche on both nominees and put enough educational thought into the matter to really pick wich one they like more. What i see is the parents brainwashing their kids into rebulicans or democrats and then the kid fighting for the only side they know.
It is clear that i am the total opposite. In this writting i wont call obama a republican or a democrat, because while i think he is a democrat..im not really sure. It was only this year that i became pretty sure hes a democrat. before now i had no idea who was who. All i see are a group of men who use excitting words like change, but then dont ever say how. I have no problem with it either. I could do the researche, wear buttons, hand out fliers that will be not read and thrown out; or i could just do what i would do at this time in any other year. The fact is what ever i choose, the same guy will be elected he will make the same desicions and ill still be a high school student with no job waitting to break free of my parents. I have no problem with the people who put up sighns in thier door that say OBAMA. When the end of the election comes, they will be just as politically active as i was during the champain. (see i cant even spell it)
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