Inside Your Seach

I found a website that explains how search engines work. Well, kind of, its a play on search engines. We talked a lot about the internet and search engines in our class and I thought this link would be fitting. It adds a humorous approach to how some may think a search engine works. Its a sort of behind the scenes action of your Google search. Check it out.

Photo shop

Lately we have been talking about photoshop. I thought this was a funny example example. The jibjab (this land) video is a really good video that captures what animators can do with presidential elections. Another great example of photoshop is the cat video where the guy took the cat out of the photo completely and replaced it with a stain. Photoshop can be powerful, especially to those who wouldn't know the difference. All the Obama photoshop pictures both hurt and helped him. Photoshop can be used for almost any argument and is a very good and easy tool to use.

Walmart: The High Cost of Low Prices

Me and Ted were talking about this the other day, and i really wanted to take a look at it. It goes along with the culture jamming we talked about in class, the used walmart's smiley face and their slogan and twisted it around to be an anti walmart ad. "The High Cost of Low Prices"

Advertisement (extra credit)

In class we talked about advertisements going to extremes to reach out to people, especially kids our age. In all the books we've read, it mentions how we just look over, or skip through ads because we have become so used to seeing them. I found this interesting and began to wonder if companies were catching on to this, and how they were responding. The image above provides an answer to both of these questions. It showed that companies are getting our feedback even though we are not directly telling them how we feel. Also, it showed to me just how far these companies are willing to go to reach out to us. They will create 3D billboard designs to become different and get away from traditional ads. But is it working?

Political Photoshop (extra credit)

As we had talked about in class, photoshop can be very useful, especially in the world of politics. Politician and their supporters can use photoshop to create any image they want. They can make it a positive or negative message. The funny thing I discovered was when i typed in the word politics to google images. the picture above is what i discovered. I found this interesting because it not only covered what we talked about in class, but it combined the two just to show how it can be used.

Regrets Every Time

This a culture jam I created using a cold 45 ad. It can bee seen in many low income and minority neighborhoods. It promotes the use of alcohol by advertising the product as a way to get sex. However, all the consumer usually ends up is regrets instead.

Collaboration

I decided to go back and talk about chapter five some more. In Jenkins book of Convergence Culture, in chapter five, he talks about the harry potter wars and how children get together collaborate to form new ideas and thoughts on the issue. There are many sites that are related to this site, in that they are set up with similar structure and purposes. Just as we were previously talking in class on the previous chapters, the spoiler websites are related to this in some way. They both are where people come together to collaborate their ideas and form new conclusions and ideas from what they can piece together. In The Daily Prophet, the children learned how to write and played with their fantasies while they did it, but on the other sites such as the spoiler sites they are looking for the conclusion to a show or question. Today we were talking about sites that are set up to talk and ask questions on a certain subject that are very helpful when we are lost on that topic. The collaboration within these sites is impressive and interesting to see how they form a conclusion or new idea from what is said. Here is a link to a website that then takes you to further wbsites where you can talk with others on a certain issue or topic. It is interesting to see how many different sites there really are and how many people really get involved with it.