save a tree? or make sales?

I have recently noticed the increasingly hi number of products being sold on the “going green”, and “eco friendly planet” symbol that targets the world peace, eco friendly, vegetarian/vegan, organic, demographic. It really makes me feel as if our country is attempting to actually make a difference in the environment. Although these companies and industries may be doing this just to increase revenue it really bring a slight bit of joy to my heart so visually see the changes and differences people and industries are making to save our planets eco system, atmosphere, and animals. I have also analyzed that many products labels along side of the nutritional value some tell you whether or not the product is biodegradable, which means it can eventually be consumed by the earth and not just stay trash on the surface of our beautiful earth and Georges blue oceans. Are all of these signs of a new beginning that is finally taking affect? Or is it just a way for companies to increase revenue and make more sales by exploiting the earth loving tree huggers like myself that love every aspect of nature.

2012?

2012 is a date that I hear my piers, along with many others discuss all the time. And for the most part I have come to realize that it seems very much so that the knowledge that people have of it is from the spread of others by word of mouth, or the media. For example the recent movie to hit the theaters named after the date 2012. The movie is extremely graphic and shows some very intense scenes about what incidences are predicted to occur if the entire “2012” scenario was to happen. This doesn’t mean that it is destine to happen. But for some people, including a few of my mentally enabled friends who will go unnamed, they believe this is really going to happen. Or they joke about it enough to make it seem as if their opinion is to believe it’s going to happen. Here is an example, for instance when you mention plans for the future, later than 2012 these people will say, “we are all dying in 2012 anyway so why does it matter.” When it really comes down to it in an all serious perspective how do people really feel about the issue, and is it something to just nonchalantly be making fun of? I am very curious to see how the entire population including the media will react in December of 2011 when the actual day is near. I really ponder were will everyone be? And what will the media be recommending the citizens to do? Stay home with your loved ones, or go out and find your usual New Years Eve rager and do what you do best, and to go all out like they inform you to do every year. And I wonder how the media has already effected some people’s decision making from what basically should be labeled as the “2012 scare”. Are people making different choices in life just based on information in movies and what they tell you on national geographic and the history channel?

Has it affected any of your decisions? Or is it just a joke to you guys? When the time gets closer how much more serious do you think mankind will become about the issue?

INVICTUS!

Rugby, rugby is not a word your everyday “American” knows everything about. Some think it’s a sport with sticks and crickets, and others think it’s a type of ancient Indian rug or something. But what rugby is, in case you don’t already know, is a sport originating in Greece way back in the 1100s that was designed for wealthy men to show off their strength as they brutally battled one another in viscous games of up to 100 against 100 involving many injuries even deaths. Today rugby is played by teams of most often, 7 or 15. Rugby resembles soccer and American football combined very closely and uses a football shaped ball but only with round ends and slightly larger. The sport of rugby is very well known and similar to our sport of baseball when compared to the U.K. and New Zeeland especially when the quantity and insanity of fans is taken into consideration.
Rugby has recently been starting to make its rise here in America with club teams supplying all the essentials for players of all ages to come and enjoy full seasons of rugby with other kids and players from all over the world. There are even select high school teams in the U.S. that get to travel and play all over the country and Candida. I have personally had the opportunity to do these things and its outrageously fun, and I think that if more children, kids, teens, and adults knew about this great sport that it could develop much larger and become a sport that everyone knows of and all the kids want to grow up loving and playing. Well rugby is already on its way there. This last year Rugby 7s has finally managed to force into the U.S. Olympics and is going to be seen played nationwide in 2016 when the U.S. Olympics are held.
I believe that the media has purposely made the soon to be block buster film Invictus, to inform the United States citizens of the existence of this miraculous sport in a very intelligent way. You may have heard of this new film staring, Morgan freeman and Matt Damon or seen it on one of the recently placed billboards around town. What Invictus is, is a movie displaying excellent showmanship on how the south African president, played by Morgan Freeman brought the world cup of rugby to his county to get his people to stop fighting for a limited amount of time due to them viewing the games played in their own country throughout the duration of the world cup. The film includes over 35 minutes of playing time which will inform the audience of several rules and it also will include large amounts of visuals being a movie. And most Americans don’t even have half a clue of what the uniforms even consist of, nor should I say the lack of what it consist of. (haha) This is an excellent example of how the media can use certain elements of media such as (movies) to inform any specific group of people, race, gender or sexual preferences any kind of information that they specifically want them to know.

zee lap band! again.

Ok, so here we go again with the lap band! I feel like I see that same average white blond girl waving her average sized arms in the air standing on a scale all day every day. On buses, bill boards, magazines, just about every form of photographic media there is. I’m not exactly sure if I keep noticing the add so much because I have a significant reason to acknowledge it because I’ve used it for class topics and what not several times, so it kind of just jumps out at me. But I honestly feel like I see it at least 20 times a day on every other bus and billboard. It makes me think that this may be a specific kind of advertisement where they continuously reuse the same exact add with the same exact image and everything just so that way eventually you don’t even have to read any of the words on the add because as soon as your eyes analyze the image of the pink shirt and white arms in the air with the blond hair hanging down it instantly pops in your head and you no exactly what the add is for because you have already seen it so many times every where. It’s like as if they want to just keep it in your head so if anyone is to ask your recommendation of surgery for that specific procedure it will be the first one that comes to mind.
I no what your thinking, isn’t that the goal of every user of advertisement? For example like when new movies come out and you see ads for that movie everywhere the previous month before it hits the box office. This is very similar but it seems as if when people try to get the knowledge of there product out to the public thru advertisement they most often use all different types of pictures, people, races and scenarios such as denim ads or vehicle ads or cellular ads. So I guess my question is do some users of media specifically use one image for a very extended period of time as a tactic for sales and repetition or do they do it as a cheap alternative to not have to hire models camera guys and whatever other resources you need to make a photographic still add.

Then I started to think well maybe they are just using this specific image for the lap band here in Los Angeles for some important reason. Then I took a trip back home to my home town which is about one and a half hours from Los Angeles and it was the same! Every bus every other billboard they all had this exact same image of the blond white average looking lady on it. I cant get away from the lap band ads even if I try.

TWITTER!

Twitter friend or foe? Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author’s profile page and delivered to the author’s subscribers who are known as followers. Many brands, stores, clubs, and celebrities use this link so people can follow them as a form of advertisement. I recently made one of these just to keep up, follow, and chat with friends back home; I didn’t think it could literally affect my life. I recently applied for a job at urban outfitters and by the time I had gotten home, only 2 hours after submitting my application, I had been alarmed by my black berry that I had a email. When I checked this email it said I was being followed by urban outfitters. This immediately alarmed me because I don’t always say the most appropriate things or use very appropriate language that grandmother would approve of if you no what I mean. And I no what your thinking “why didn’t you just delete them” or “set your profile to private,” it was a option but I didn’t want to seem suspicious or sketchy. What I did instead of trying to get rid of them as a “follower” was manipulate this form of media and the situation by saying all kinds of fantastic things about myself that I was doing in life and just all positive, motivational information. That way when whoever was reading my tweets, which I no was one of the hiring managers because all the other people they were following were applicants also, would be impressed by what I was doing in life and have a trusting feeling in hiring me.
It’s just crazy; I never thought media could have such a major direct affect on my life in such a way it’s pretty ridiculous. O and I did get the job by the way. =]

is it right?

The amount of Public advertisement for body altering surgeries is insane. Up until recently I have never realized how often I hear advertisements for all these different types of plastic surgeries and nip tuck operations in the media. You hear them on the radio see them on television and on the web. Things like this use to seem a lot more personal and secretive, but lately it seems as if people don’t care if any one knows they just went out and got a new set of double Dees and the electrifying new lap band we see billboards for on every block going down Pico or some new Angelina Jolie Botox lips. It’s almost as if these under the knife and extreme bone chiseling operations have become a social everyday part of life being advertized on the radio with the same techniques approached by a used car sales men. To me it feels very unmoral and unnatural, and what does it say about us Americans as a society. Showing before and after pictures as the result of surgically placing a rubber band that constricts around your internal stomach to make you not as hungry in order to loose weight, in every other commercial that our little sisters, daughters, nieces and cousins watch on the daily. How is the generation to come going to be effected by this, what is the ultimate outcome of this going to be like? Should such commercials even be allowed on the air? They censor and have blocks on pornographic television stations and magazines what’s really the difference when you’re talking about and showing a women’s breast after they have “gone from a B to a DD”.

What do you guys think?

media litters the streets

Media literally litters the streets of many neighborhoods. Especially significant areas in down town Los Angeles were I live. I can’t come to my car one time in the morning without having at least 4 different flyers and several business cards on my windshield. The average person when finding this piece of media will take it, not even give it a look and throw it right on the ground leavening it for some one else to pick up, which in some parts of down town does not happen very often unless done by street sweeper or a kind citizen . This form of media which may be informative if used properly has only become a pest to people forcing them to throw it on the ground as if it were a nasty bug or piece of bird dung on the windshield. And it’s not just a little amount over time it builds, and not just windshield nonsense. Stacks and stacks of unopened news papers, flyers for all sorts of random functions, even business cards advertizing Brest implants all flood the streets! All just because people want some one to no they just opened a new store in the middle of down town which thousands of people are going to drive by a thousand times anyway. The amount of litter in some neighborhoods all due to flyer passer outers and small media notices is really ridiculous why cant people disperse and receive there media from more efficient vicinities and not fill the streets with trash.

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