May 2008
3 posts
Making a beat →
I found this video on youtube that I found pretty awesome. This video in particular isn’t one of the most watched videos on youtube but I figured that since I use this site almost as much as I use Google to search for something (which is at least once a day) I should include it in my blog. Plus, I’m really into music so things like this are really amazing to me. I think it’s...
A New Appreciation for Meida
I think that first and foremost the best thing that I learned all semester in this course is that media is all around us in many different forms. I never realized just how big of a role media plays in everyone’s lives and now I can appreciate it a lot more than I used to. I am a Communications minor and I’ve taken courses in Communications before, but none of them made me appreciate...
April 2008
2 posts
Glamour
After seeing the first half of the film today and reading about glamour in the text, I noticed that the idea of glamour played a big role in this movie. The main character was an advertiser and eventually broke down after he realized how he was manipulating the minds of millions of people by creating the “glamour” advertisements that he had been creating his whole career. Even if he...
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The uses for a brick (aside from building a wall): - Weapon - Weight (to hold something down) - Can be used to stop a wheel from rolling - A symbol of strength - Something to carve/write something on
March 2008
1 post
February 2008
9 posts
Reaction to Video Clip
After watching the movie clip in class yesterday, I found it to be quite interesting. I never really thought about how different things were just 100 years ago and what has changed since then just because of how one person realized how people think and started to exploit what Freud knew. By giving people the idea that they should want to have something instead of having them think they need it not...
January 2008
7 posts
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