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Oil is becoming expensive everyday with its price increasing internationally because of various reasons. It is essential in the society nowadays since most activities cannot be performed without it. For recent years, its demand has increased since its uses have become many. This is why producers are inflating the price. Most of the world’s oil is produced in Saudi Arabia, the United States, and Russia. Other countries like China, Iran, Canada, United Arab Emirates, Mexico, Brazil and Kuwait are among the top ten oil producers in the world. It is not easy to forecast the price of oil internationally because it is highly sensitive to a lot of changes in both global demand and supply. However, it could be said that the cost depends solely on demand and supply. When there is a lot of demand in the market, the price of oil increases. This is because many people want it and they are ready to buy at any price. If one buyer is not interested in buying at a high price, there is another buyer who is willing to buy for any amount so long as he/she gets it. Saudi Arabia is the number one producer of oil, and it has known this. This is why it is hoarding its oil so that it can sell it when there is increased demand. The United States and Russia have started doing the same, and now it has remained that they are only willing to supply it when there is a high demand. This is something that is leading to the scarcity of oil in the market. The leading producers are storing their stock so that they can sell when the prices are high. But, the good news for the producers of oil is that the demand does not seem to reduce. Many countries are importing oil for their domestic and industrial purposes. It is required to run engines so that vehicles can move from one place to another. It is also needed to run machines in industries so that the production process would be effective. Without it many domestic and industrial activities are at still. People from all countries require these activities so that they can satisfy their various needs. This is why nowadays every season is good for oil producers. Recently, the price of oil has increased to $70 a barrel. This is a price that has not been experienced for a long time. In fact, it is the highest price to have been charged for a barrel of oil ever since its importation started. The last time that an amount close to this was charged for a barrel of oil was in 2014 when there was a shortage. $70 is a lot of money that is almost double the price of a barrel two years ago. In 2016, the price of a barrel was approximately $35 but, since the demand kept on increasing, two years later we are now at $70. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is one of the forces that have led to the increase in the price of oil. The organization is made up of some countries from the Middle East which includes Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Venezuela. It is led by Saudi Arabia due to its dominant position in the oil production industry. They set prices that favor them so that they can maximize their profits since their primary aim in this industry is to make profit. This has influenced other countries like the United States and Russia to increase their oil prices so that they can be able to make a lot of money and expand their oil industries. In the near future, the price of oil is expected to rise to even $80 a barrel in the international market. In recent years, the United States has tried to offset the shortages in the supply of oil by increasing its production. This is because the country is characterized by a high-tech economy and a stable investment climate that is suitable for the production of oil. Since the other producers sell their oil at high prices, American producers have been prompted to increase their prices on the global market. This is what has contributed to the increase in oil prices both for domestic and industrial use. The increase in the price of oil is what has led to the development of some states like Texas in the recent years. Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell which are the leading oil production companies in the United States recently recorded an increase in their profits compared to what they used to make four years ago. This is why they are making efforts of ensuring that they produce many barrels per day.

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Information Graphics:

1-Coffee

What is coffee all about, this photo shows us what does it contain each coffee when we drink, so we don’t drink without knowing what is it inside and how much for water, milk, chocolate, etc. And the top producers for the coffee which is Brazil by 29%. It is an easy picture that anyone can understand, a full picture with perfect information design.

2- Snapchat Users:

Snapchat launched in 2011 and was initially almost dismissed as a joke. A fad that would pass. It was reported that Facebook offered $3 billion to buy the company and everyone thought they were mad to reject it.

But the facts in 2016 show a different story

-100 million active daily user

-18% of all social media users in the USA use Snapchat

-30% of all US. millennials use the network

-8,796 photos a second are shared on Snapchat

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/457326537132313235/

http://www.jeffbullas.com/2016/02/08/79-social-media-facts-that-reveal-how-our-world-is-changing/

#NOV30

Typography & Graphic Design:

Typography:

This is a poster design using mostly typography to create an image of the jokers face. I like this one a lot because it does a very good job of showing the jokers facial features even though the artist is only using type. He also does a very good job in showing the face shadows where they would be. The type is distorted in many different ways. I think the artist had a lot of fun while making this. It looks like it is a simple idea but he really works on showing a lot of detail, even though there is only black, white, and pink. His eyes are my favorite part of this image. The type gets very small and condensed, I also really like the shading under the eyes. He only uses a total of 1 word throughout his face; JOKER. It is also all in caps. This artist captures the facial features very well and overall does a great job creating the jokers face using purely typography. it is really good photo to show the people who wants to to typography and give them new ideas.

As well as the other picture of the joker face with the writing his word SO SERIOUS, which is the word the the joker used the most in his all movies against Batman, and his scary noise and loudly laugh that shows in his mouth HAHAHA, when you recognize more in the photo you can see the red eyes which refers to the evils eyes or whatever and his green hair style with the type WHY, so it will be all the world that he says which is Why so serious. its a very artist photo too.

and other typography which is the cup of Starbucks coffee or whatever, and the writing in the straw sounds you are drinking it, and the words which is CREAMY, RICH SMOOTH and others that make the viewer wants this drink for now, and the red wallpaper that grab the attention of course.

Pokemon photo, for those people who addicted to that game or that enemy who shows the writing CATCH THEM or COME WITH ME. and the Challenge that made us play that game and see what challenge they are talking about.

Graphic Design:

This picture, shows how person could think about creating new ideas from films or picture. And how it is hard to get these ideas, it refers like he is killing him self to get the best shot and not any shot, but a smart one.

In this ad, lipton company is creating a great graphic design for their costumers to shows how naturally the leet of the tea brings from the great ground and well and great example. So we can drink it safely and fresh. Also the background shows us the calm and relaxing with the soft green color.

http://graphicdesignjunction.com/2013/06/36-remarkable-examples-of-typography-design/

https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/type/

http://www.crafthubs.com/typography-photo-print-designs/11138

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/297308012874392641/

http://designs-and-else.blogspot.com/2013/01/typography-design-in-theory-and-practice.html

http://www.alartemag.be/en/en-design/graphic-design-from-the-middle-east-cutting-edge-and-cross-cultural

https://www.pinterest.com/abbalee1310/11x17/

#NOV23

Caricature:

Visual Puns.

How the ads shows us the different between the real sandwich in MacDonald's and the other one with the photographer. While the real one take 60 seconds to be done and you can eat it, the beef looks so dry, the cheese is melted, and the sandwich is not well organized. In the opposite thing for the other photographer sandwich, thy took 4 hours to make it look so delicious and puffy. They wants us to love what we see, so we can eat what we like but it is not. They are just playing with our minds.

Provocation.

In this photo, the actor Ben Affleck in his recent movie “The Accountant” How he keeps his folders organized and that he must work for them to finish his job, and since he was young he used to be different from other kids, he used to pot all his toys in the same ordinary line. And everything should be clear. Even the market pens on the table he keeps them in a line near each other, because he is an organized person. If anything went wrong or be different a little bit or even he did not do the work on the time that he needs it, he would be so provocative.

Political Cartoons. In the photo we see Donald Trump and what did he say about the wall that he would build at Mexico boarder. While this picture also shows that Trump is a racist here, as shown on his list that he is holding which called “Trump Platform.” The one who did the character his point is apparently made sense to the viewers. The wall in his mouth shows that instead of him saying wordiness, the people that against him want him to shut his mouth, even the flying words in the photo. “MRFMF, MFFM,…” That he can not speak openly, and no one can hear his voice.

https://sites.google.com/a/hiroshima-is.ac.jp/our-class-noticeboard/home/6-english

http://brendanyyy.deviantart.com/favourites/56824998/Caricature

http://diaryofamadinvalid.blogspot.com/2016/08/political-cartoons-about-donald-trump.html

https://theexportedfilm.com/2016/10/06/the-accountant-2016-movie-review/

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=0ahUKEwiRzYTMt5rQAhVN3mMKHYFuBBIQjxwIAw&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tomrichmond.com%2Fart%2Fcaricatures%2F&bvm=bv.138169073,d.cGw&psig=AFQjCNGZoINbG_9ooQn0I5KXrFyV7mcX9Q&ust=1478738176529016

#Nov9

Visual Culture:

1-The photo is about the series “Lost” for whom have to watch the series, they can find out how did they crashed on the airplane, and they went to an island that is separated from the world, the issue here, when they had crashed there was no signal to contact anyone, what I mean here is there were no life. They had survived for five months like this bad situation, which they find out in the that is precise and comfortable. The question is, can we live like them nowadays, why not, I think it would be a great experience and much fun than we think that is in our phones, so we can feel how we are living before with no rest. Even when they are back from that island to the real life, they did not like it back there again in the earth, they want to go to the island because they get used to it, and there is nothing to care for, just your surrounding people and that you have fun. Maybe if we try to stop texting or posting for letting people know that we are alive in social networks, be a real at least for now, with ourselves, to contact people face to face, I think that would be a big jump, and we will restart our minds too.

2-Who knows what will happen after a few years, if we still complete by acting and texting that much. Our heads always down, why? To answer someone had text me, to post a photo, so the people think you are active, and you must have more followers? And then what is the point, what are we gaining from visual culture, I always remember the old people in our society, when they see us on our phones, they do not like what are their grandchildren’s doing, actually they hate that view, and I never blame them because no one is answering, or chatting to someone, also in the past, they used to set together by each others, having fun with their conversation and a big smile on their faces that made the other person that is speaking happy, because he feel the respond to him, instead of pressing like on each photo on your Instagram, without seeing who is the person that downloads that picture, and even you might not like his post, we are fake, layers and wrong. Is that what we need from the visual culture. I hope after a couple of years later, we won’t have a generation that does not talk about how they speak with their grandmother or father because we are those old people.

http://www.carolesmithturner.com/2015/12/entertaining-strangers.html

http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/that-v-made-lost-hard-to-see/?_r=0

#OCT19

Media stereotypes:

1-In the photo is the biggest drug dealer, and murder person in the history of the world, Pablo Escobar, which most people at that time wants him to be dead, and anyone that can support the police to locate where is Pablo, that might make the cops catch him, will give him a reward no less than 2,000,000$. Pablo is a person whom you do not want to drink with him a cup of tea in his big, beautiful swimming pool. He had killed many innocent people in Bogota the city of Colombia. However, he took this photo in the middle of his war against some other drug trafficker and the police, the US government need him to be dead too, and he was taking that picture in front of the white house with his little son, what a crazy, courage mind he has. He did that to show the word that he is not afraid to go anywhere or scared, and that he is not a rat to be hiding, that was his word always about the rats, and that he is not one of them, he likes to be the snake that catches and eat the rat in one second, he made that contact with the media by taking this shot which made the Americans and the Colombians a chaos.

2-Marijuana these days became more popular, and fame in everywhere, but in the US more, this photo shows where the city that the pot is legal, also in the second picture, the ad which are saying come and smoke marijuana and you will never die from it, also what they want us to believe that it is not like other drugs, the ones that kill you after a while from using it, and if you smoke pot that you will never be overdose like alcohol. People who smoke weed roughly are becoming so addicted to it, and they do not recognize it because they saw it something normal or that is nothing if you know what I am saying. Of course, it had a side effects, if there are not, then most people and the whole world would give it a try, and it would be legal in everywhere you go, pot heads see that the cannabis is something that God gave it to us, but seriously, there are many chemicals that had on it, to made it like that. Marijuana policy news, a non-profit journalism site, is providing state by state updates. California reform efforts with its successful, in 1996 voters initiative to legalize marijuana for a medical use.

http://www.highsnobiety.com/2016/09/28/narcos-cultural-stereotypes/

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/534661786992662826/

http://marijuana.heraldtribune.com/tag/u-s-marijuana/

#OCT12

Ads and PR:

-When there is a new phone had come up in the store, we run fast to go and take the new one and take a photo for it and send to out friends, even sometimes our other phones has nothing to change and there is no problem with them at all, but why we are doing that, is it for the people whom are surrounding us or do we really need these few more option on the new phone ?

This photo shows how the differ between the phones by the years, like in the 1990’s the phone style was tall with a signal on it, and year after year they change the style the type and become more expansive than the year before it was never the same price or less. Now the new iPhone is big like the old ones, but it is lighter and of course all the things are changed since that day.

-Nowadays some picture that shows in the media are unacceptable to watch for all kinds of humans, like the photo in her, Hillary Clinton and the actor Chloe Moretz, it is a piece of glazed donut and I don’t think that they are doing that photo for the company of the donut, however there is a big meaning behind that, but the question is, is that photo that necessary to be watched by all the kinds of people ages, for whom they want to see this picture, and what is the main idea, is it for a good reason or useless?

is the public relations whom we have to blame or the media or no one cares about what people will respond or what is the emotions and the actions will take for that specific photo, Hillary and Chloe are far famed, everyone is going to see that photo.

https://www.pinterest.com/ressmann/mobile-marketing-mobile-advertising/

http://starecat.com/hillary-clinton-holding-donuts-with-chloe-moretz-large-hole-small-hole/

#Oct5

Gestalt and Cognitive Processes:

Gestalt psychology tries to understand the laws of our ability to acquire and maintain meaningful perceptions.

-Of course, we used to the media and how they want to affect us with what they want us believe in, in these photos there are many ways you can see the photo and it is all about the first look and what your brain can get from the first look, but when you focus on it, you will what is the photo is and how it is made to trick you, the artist who made that photos is a very smart, because like these photos needs too much of focusing and that is what I called art.

-In the series "Game of thrones” they let the girl “Khalesi” to act with a doll to feel the other picture that shows for us which is kind of big dragon, so “khalesi” can act like she is feeling the dragon and the reality just because they wants us to feel the reality and that is how the movies or series become great, especially that series is the number 1 and the top in the series and the photo I have from a long time in my phone, there are no source for it.

#Sept21

Semiotics:

It is all about the symbols and how they affect us in the real life, it is the study of meaningful communication.

1-Energy drinks

Most of them are not healthy for our life, this ad which I had take this photo in “Subway”. In the ad you you can see how the change of the color in the word “Energized” with the red instead of the green, so they can grab your attention, the word “Naturally” of course they are going to keep it green to feel the real nature which we do not know if that is a real health drink or just to sell their products.

2- Karma Camera

The project of that “GoPro” camera can fly easily in the air and capture to you what you want by wireless control, also when you switch it off it will come back to you when she is in the air, and that where they come up for her name that called “Karma” which everyone can recognize, “Karma” means that if you do something good it will come back to you as a good thing, and when you do a bad thing it will come to you on a bad thing too. It will follow you by the sincere on it, like when you run or object that moves you can select the camera to follow it and capture for you all the view in a very high performance, with a perfect quality. The color of the word “Karma” they used for it the blue color, which is the same color for their logo, in my opinion that is a genius idea, who come up with that one and great ad for the company “GoPro”

https://www.rcgeeks.co.uk/blog/review-gopro-karma-vs-dji-mavic

#Sept14

Gestalt Law:

The Gestalt principles of perception govern the way we group different objects. Good form is where the perceptual system tries to fill in the blanks in order to see simple objects rather than complex objects. Continuity is where the perceptual system tries to disambiguate which segments fit together into continuous lines. Proximity is where objects that are close together are associated. Similarity is where objects that are similar are seen as associated. Some of these elements have been successfully incorporated into quantitative models involving optimal estimation or Bayesian inference.

The human eye tends to build a relationship between similar elements within a design. Similarity can be achieved using basic elements such as shapes, colors, and size.

We see what they want us to see and believe in what they needs us to believe in, but in my opinion that is wrong for us because that may made us follow something that we do not want to follow, or buy stuff that we never need it, just because we saw it somewhere.

This amazing photo for the man who is jumping from a high place, we agree it is a very nice picture, but what is the thing that makes it like that? is it the sky, the man who took the picture ? or the man who is jumping?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_illusion

https://www.studyblue.com/notes/note/n/week-8/deck/11294755

https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/article/the-law-of-similarity-gestalt-principles-1

http://www.adorama.com/alc/0013706/article/6-Principles-of-Gestalt-Psychology-That-Can-Improve-Your-Photography

#SEPT28

Viewers make meaning:

Shock ads now are every where maybe sometimes we do not recognize it at the first time, but normally you can remember what it is about even if it is not at the same time, it will just stuck on your mind.

-Here the picture shows the old woman smoking cigarets in her 42 Birth day, and what it is looks like she is more than 60, However, the ad shows to us that the gum “Nicotinell" can makes you quit the cigarette but in a scary way, the hand of the woman is looks so bad which they want to tell us that it does not matter the age of you how long smoking the cigarette, you can quit it with chewing this gum. The media wants us to keep inside our minds what they want even if we are not acceptable of it.

-The picture below made for international league against racism and antisemitism, It shows the raise between the human for the coloring, and not just for the old people that they had problem with that, even the small children that can effect them and destroy their future, and that is not supporting them, we should be together and must respect each others, because no one is complete and no one choose his color, and we all humans there are no differ between us, they can be whatever they want to be, not just workers, which shows in the picture and make them less respected.

http://democraticvoices.com/2014/09/smoking-kills-doesnt-scare-maybe-shock-value-advertisements-will/

http://blog.imonomy.com/visual-discrimination-can-done/

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Ground Zero Mosque:

-The Mosque was not close to the trade center, nowadays some people they think when they see a photo of Muslim guy the first thing that is going to pop on their heads is that man is a terrorist, and why is that? Because they thought that Osama was a Muslim, he is not. That man does not have any religion, like ISIS nowadays, they are not muslims. They say that to make the Islamic priority looks ugly and to made sedition. But all the real Muslims knew that they do not have any religion. What religion is it that made you to go where people pray and go inside the mosque and blow them up and killed many people. I remembered before couple months ago, one of the ISIS person had come to our country and had explode the Mosque, and killed many people, and some are injured. The Video I will include her shows the ISIS guy, how he was running and afraid to go and do that mission that ISIS people gave him, however if he was Muslim, why he would explode his Muslim community, because they had no religion. Also the Quran, told us to not kill any human in the world. Islam is peace, not a blaze.

http://www.welayatnet.com/en/news/79681

This links down for the videos that shows the terrorist guy when he came inside the Mosque quickly, to kill the innocent people at the time when they where worshiping God. I hope and pray for the people whom are dead from that and to protect our country and all the world from that bad explosions or whatever is bad. And we live in peace for the rest of our lives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFPzTCltl6g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9GxyaztCTw

#Sept7

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