Sunday, September 30, 2012
Who Controls the Story?
In a NYT article, Margaret Sullivan explains the implications of "quote approval," a common practice by media, including newspapers and magazines, that is now being questioned.
Saturday, September 29, 2012
Interesting!!
I thought this was interesting video how media can affect people and how much people strive to be what's in media - ideal woman/man.
Friday, September 28, 2012
Meet UNREAL, A Natural Candy Maker Endorsed By Jack Dorsey, Matt Damon, Gisele And Tom Brady
The video features Tom Brady (Gisele’s husband), Matt Damon, John Legend and Jack Dorsey — all of whom lavish praise on the product, amidst scenes involving the hacking of raw agave and the consumption of raw cacao. Burns says that some of these big names have invested in the company, although he won’t divulge which ones. There will be more famous faces in the future, Burns says, as UNREAL vamps up an aggressive digital and experiential marketing campaign that targets what he sees as the brand’s core demographic — millennials.
"If Amazon wants everybody to own a Kindle so they’ll buy products through Amazon’s online store, Wal-Mart and Target surely want as many people as possible to own a Nook, simply so they don’t have a Kindle."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/sethporges/2012/09/26/what-barnes-nobles-new-nook-tablets-tell-us-about-their-strategy/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/sethporges/2012/09/26/what-barnes-nobles-new-nook-tablets-tell-us-about-their-strategy/
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
The Akinator
Pretty interesting little thing I found. It's like 20 questions. Think of a character from a movie, game, book, or a real person and answer the questions accordingly.
http://en.akinator.com/personnages/
http://en.akinator.com/personnages/
Uncharted 3 Airplane Scene HD!
One of the best series and charater of all time. There is talk of a movie. Who should play Drake. Someone thats witty and not too over paid in Hollywood. i found the perfect man. Nathan fillion from fire fly!!
Monday, September 24, 2012
Sunday, September 23, 2012
"Skinvertising"
Remember the human billboard phenomenon? From an advertiser's viewpoint, the idea may have seemed profitable and effective, but now that that the trend has lessened, those who participated are left with mixed feelings for the now defunct companies they have permanently marked on their persons.
Full article
With enough financial incentive, would you get an advertisement tattoo?
Magazines Affect Our Culture
Do magazine covers like this tell us that violence against women can be OK?
Friday, September 21, 2012
It's too bad it's leaving Florida
Space shuttle Endeavour to final frontier, in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES |
(Reuters) - The space shuttle Endeavour, bolted to the top of a jumbo jet, was to take off on Friday from Edwards Air Force Base for a last airborne victory lap over California en route to its final frontier and retirement home - a science museum in Los Angeles.
Riding piggyback on a specially modified Boeing 747, the 75-ton winged spaceship was scheduled to depart at 8:15 a.m. Pacific time (1515 GMT) on the final leg of its cross-country trip that started on Wednesday in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The scheduled departure was about an hour later than originally planned due to fog over the San Francisco Bay area.
After making at least 20 planned low-altitude passes over some of California's best-known landmarks and scientific institutions, including Disneyland and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Endeavour and its carrier jet are expected to land at Los Angeles International Airport at about 12:45 p.m. local time (1945 GMT).
Friday's flight from Edwards, about 100 miles north of Los Angeles in the Mojave Desert, will mark Endeavour's last ferry flight, and the final airborne journey for any of NASA's three surviving shuttles.
NASA retired Endeavour and the rest of its shuttle fleet last year after completing the U.S. portion of the $100 billion International Space Station, a permanently staffed research complex orbiting 250 miles above Earth.
Its arrival Thursday afternoon at Edwards was a homecoming of sorts for the California-made spacecraft, which was built as a replacement for Challenger, the shuttle lost in a 1986 launch accident that killed seven astronauts.
Endeavour went on to fly 25 missions, including 12 to help construct and outfit the space station, and logged nearly 123 million miles (198 million km) in flight during 4,671 orbits.
Seven of those missions ended with Endeavour landing at Edwards, which served as NASA's principal backup for shuttle returns during much of the 30-year orbiter program in case of bad weather over Cape Canaveral.
'THERE'S MY SPACESHIP'
On its way to Edwards on Thursday, Endeavour and its carrier jet performed a fly-by pass over Tucson, Arizona, in tribute to former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, Mark Kelly, the retired astronaut who commanded Endeavour's final flight on his last mission in late May 2011.
Kelly and Giffords, who is still recuperating from a gunshot wound to the head suffered in an attempt on her life last year, watched the flyover from the roof of a Tucson parking garage.
"When it came into view, Mark said, 'There's my spaceship!'" recounted a former aide, C.J. Karamargin, who joined the couple for the event. "Gabby was just elated, hooting and hollering like the rest of us were."
After its arrival at Los Angeles, Endeavour will undergo preparations to be moved next month through city streets from the airport to its permanent home at the California Science Center in downtown Los Angeles, where the shuttle will be put on public display starting October 30.
To make way for the mammoth orbiter along its 12-mile (19-km) route to the museum, crews are cutting down nearly 400 trees, raising overhead utility wires and temporarily removing hundreds of utility poles, street lights and traffic signals. The science center has agreed to plant 1,000 new trees to replace those scheduled for removal.
Endeavour is the second of NASA's three surviving shuttles to be sent to a museum. The oldest surviving shuttle, Discovery, is on display at the Smithsonian Institution's Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center outside Washington.
Atlantis, which flew NASA's 135th and final shuttle mission in July 2011, will be towed down the road to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in November.
NASA lost a fourth shuttle, Columbia, in another fatal accident in 2003. That shuttle was not replaced. A shuttle test vehicle, Enterprise, which has never flown in space, was delivered to a New York City museum.
On its way from Edwards to the Los Angeles, Endeavour and its carrier jet are expected to fly in low over San Francisco Bay and the California state Capitol in Sacramento before heading south for additional flyovers of such landmarks as Disneyland, the Griffith Observatory, the Hollywood sign, Malibu Beach and Los Angeles City Hall.
(Editing by Jane Sutton and Vicki Allen)
Tuesday, September 18, 2012
Jimmy Fallon (playlist)
Since we are on the topic of Books in class heres a classic show tune with a twist. Jimmy Fallon dresses up as Jim Morrison to sing Reading Rainbow. Most of you have no idea what Reading Rainbow was, but it was a show for kids. Jimmy plays on Morrison's persona stating the word "HIGH" on stage which was a contriversal issue on The Ed Sullivan show with The Doors hit "Light my Fire." and instead of rambling poetry Jimmy Fallon rambles book titles.
Ocarina of Time 3D - Robin Williams Commercial
Did you know Robin Williams named his daughter after the character Zelda.
Could the Iphone 5 help the economy?
http://news.yahoo.com/sales-iphone-5-could-boost-u-economy-analyst-071317455.html
Great article on how the IPhone 5 can make an impact on the economy. The IPhone is popular than even, and thus coming out with a new device, attracts more and more customers, which ultimately helps the economy in significant ways.
Great article on how the IPhone 5 can make an impact on the economy. The IPhone is popular than even, and thus coming out with a new device, attracts more and more customers, which ultimately helps the economy in significant ways.
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Consumers as Advertisers
Instead of using commercials and advertisements on webpages as marketing mechanisms, companies are now using consumers as advertisement. On Pinterest, people can go to a website, like American Eagle for example, "Pin" a piece of clothing to their board on pinterest and create a link back to American Eagles wesbite, allowing others to go look and purchase this clothing. All the work is put in by the consumer and it takes the company no effort.
http://pinterest.com/search/?q=clothes
http://pinterest.com/search/?q=clothes
LG clever advertising
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghRji9ZKOl0
This is an example of how companies have adapted to modern day media. LG have created this viral youtube video and cleverly placed their logo at the end. The video is great because it makes you watch it multiple times and its cheap to produce.
This is an example of how companies have adapted to modern day media. LG have created this viral youtube video and cleverly placed their logo at the end. The video is great because it makes you watch it multiple times and its cheap to produce.
The media's manipulative influence over your morals
I think this is interesting and true video. It is targeted mainly on females, but I think males are influenced as well in terms how they see women. They expect them to be like females they see in mass media. And of course, it applies the other way around as well. I am just wondering if there ever will be something else people must have to be perfect or is this ultimate?
Saturday, September 15, 2012
A Day of Glass
Is this where our world is headed? Is integrating technology into every facet of our lives a good thing? This video not only explores the possibility of new technologies but makes one question, how much is too much technology?
What Is Social Media?
It talks about how social media can increase profits in a business. For this reason, I like when it says "You can't just say it. You have to get the people to say it to each other".
Music for the Open-Minded
The New York Times just did an article about Timbre, a free music app. I didn't think music apps were a big deal since everyone has easy access to them, so I read more about it. Timbre is actually designed so that it can't be personalized--the whole idea is for people to find out what concerts are going around in their area, not just the music they like. Based on your location, Timbre tells you what concerts are playing and gives you a 30 second preview of a song (so long as it's on iTunes). It's similar to something like Songkick, but the idea is to get more people to listen to different types of music and expand their horizons, instead of only discovering concerts for the music that they're interested in.
This is the link to the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/nyregion/timbre-offers-previews-of-a-variety-of-bands-playing-nearby.html?ref=music&_r=0
Link to Timbre: http://www.timbreapp.com/
This is the link to the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/nyregion/timbre-offers-previews-of-a-variety-of-bands-playing-nearby.html?ref=music&_r=0
Link to Timbre: http://www.timbreapp.com/
Friday, September 14, 2012
French film technique meets the enigma of LOLcats
Continued Overseas Censorship by Large Companies
An article in the NY Times recounts Google's decision to block an "inflammatory" video on YouTube considered to be highly offensive to Muslim individuals. Read it here!
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Who is gonna get it? :)
Is the new Iphone 5 worth it? Who wants it? I definitely do. I have never had Iphone so I am excited!!
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/video-review--is-iphone-5-worth-it--.htm
Apple's $1,049,343,540 victory: Google, don't tread on me
Tuesday, September 11, 2012
UFO DOCUMETARY I Know What I Saw 2011
Wonderful Documetary on UFO's by the History Channel. With interviews with military figures from around the world.
Monday, September 10, 2012
Dead Media
Thirty-six years after its debut, the VHS cassette is virtually extinct. As the DVD reaches its seventeenth year, it is only logical to speculate what technology will replace it.
Art by Noah Scalin (x)
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Future Phone Technologies!
Found this article this morning on one of my favorite sites. Really amazing the type of things that could be on our phones!
Technologies You'll Have on Your Phone
Technologies You'll Have on Your Phone
For Star Wars fans.
Friday, September 7, 2012
Reading should now be even more fun.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/07/technology/amazon-updates-its-kindle-line-of-e-readers.html?_r=1&ref=technology
Amazon knows how to make money on selling content and making it easy...offer low cost eReaders.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/07/technology/amazon-updates-its-kindle-line-of-e-readers.html?_r=1&ref=technology
Amazon knows how to make money on selling content and making it easy...offer low cost eReaders.
Wednesday, September 5, 2012
NYT Article
In an article titled, Smartphone? Presto! 2-Way Radio , NYT writer David Pogue examines the various media through which humans communicate and discusses yet another new mode, similar to a walkie talkie. All you need is a Smart phone, and a way in which to download the apps. There are three thus far: Zello, Heytell, and Voxer.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Gaikai - Cloud Gaming
I found this a while back. You do not have to download games because they are being streamed to you from other servers. (Kind of like Netflix) You can also play these on Facebook now.
http://www.gaikai.com/
http://www.gaikai.com/
Monday, September 3, 2012
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