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does the majority of people think, or does the majority of people not think
anti computer
what does this mean
people hate mark zuckerberg
he got rich and famous too young
he is like a disney star in the form of american corporations
we need to make more malls
malls have too many people in them
confessions of a trader
by dan caldwell
how to make a billion dollars
go to your local convenience store and buy a pack of gum. preferably those 35 cent packs with five pieces in them. go to class, ask a friend, or stand on your local street corner and ask if anyone wants to buy a piece for 25 cents. once you sell all your gum, you will now have $1.25. go to the convenience store and buy a six pack of kool aid for $1. sell each bottle for $1 each (this actually works). you now have $6.25. go to a thrift store and hunt for some name brand clothing. buy a few shirts for $2 each. sell on ebay for $12 each. you now have $36.25. go back to the thrift store, or go to a marshalls, ross, or tjmaxx and look at the sneakers they have. you may need to hunt for deals, but you will find a good deal on a pair of sneakers. resell said sneakers for $75 on ebay. you now have $75.25. you now have enough to start finding online deals. go on ebay and look for cheap sneakers. sort by newly listed. find a nice pair listed for $60. clean them up and resell for $110. you now have $125.25. subtract ebay fees, you now have $112. buy $12 of ethereum and wait. continue buying and selling sneakers until you have $500. you now have $24 of ethereum. go on ebay and look for broken macbooks. spend $150 on a broken macbook. spend $5 on those screwdrivers and $60 on a used SSD. fix the macbook, resell for $450. open an account on etrade, fidelity, etc. invest $200 in a stock of your choice. don’t be stupid. pick a good company. repeat your broken macbook business until you have $2000. invest $1000 into etfs. wait. you now have $48 in ethereum. buy a cryptokitty. breed and trade your cryptokitty until you have $200 in ethereum. pool your money. spend $1000 on a junk car. fix it. sell for $3000. get a job at a wendy’s. there’s your money for necessities. start making youtube videos about anything remotely interesting. people will watch anything. collect ad revenue. gain 100,000 subscribers. use half your ad revenue for the stock market, and half for buying junk cars. make videos about buying junk cars. fix junk cars until you have $10,000. invest $5000 in the stock market. don’t be stupid. don’t sell. spend $50 on your mom. she loves you. open up a lendingclub account and start loaning people money. gain 6% interest every month. wait. you now have $20,000 in your bank. quit your job at wendy’s and work do accounting for some company. make $50,000 a year. live on $30,000. invest $20,000 in the stock market. open a business lending people money. who needs lending club? you charge 12% interest - a very competitive amount. wait. you now have $100,000 in the bank. spend $500 on your mom. she still loves you. keep your investments. trash ones with bad returns and find better stocks or etfs. keep making youtube videos until you have 1 million subscribers. you can live off the ad revenue, but you invest it all. sell your ethereum. you never really needed it anyway. wait. you now have $500,000 in your bank account. become a venture capitalist. invest $250,000 into an innovative startup. wait. they just IPOed. you now have $50 million. invest in other startups. you lose some money on bad ones, but you find another innovative startup. buy the accounting firm you used to work at. keep making youtube videos. give your mom a car. wait for the perfect startup. invest $1 million for 15% ownership. it’s the next big thing in transportation. it IPOs. you make $3 billion on the spot. you’re a billionaire bigshot now. you can buy anything, but you have no friends. you became isolated and can’t connect with regular people. cry. buy a lot of stuff because, even though you know it won’t make you feel any better, you want it to make you happy. it doesn’t. you have an interview with the president. you can’t go back to climbing the mountain. you’ve already climbed it. there’s nothing left. you can’t go back down. the air is thin at the top of the mountain. after a few weeks at the top, you can’t breathe anymore. everything is overwhelming. everything is too complex. give all your money to charity. close your youtube account. sell your stuff. move to montana. live a simple life. go into the local convenience shop and buy a pack of gum. chew the gum and live your life.
plan for lab
I will narrate my script over the week. During lab, I will edit my footage to go with my narration. I will also gather music and relevant pictures to make my documentary better.
that’s jeff bezos, in case you don’t know who that is. he’s pretty evil. just look at him.
investing tip: the more evil the corporation, the higher return on your investment you will get
Amazon, McDonald’s, Apple, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Google. If they’re evil corporations, you will have great returns.
short term media project 11
My footage consists of screen recordings from various websites - trading websites, stock websites, and sneaker trading websites, in game footage of me trading with someone, and an overview of my profile and marketing techniques to sell my stuff. I also have some footage of some shoes I am selling and of random products that I’ve acquired. My documentary will have lots of pictures as well, so I have gathered many pictures of various marketing techniques I’ve noticed. I have written a script, so I will edit my footage to synchronize with the script as I read it. My documentary will be a story of what I’ve been doing for the past 8 years of my life and my thoughts on the future and the present. I don’t need a lot of raw footage since my documentary mostly has to do with online purchases and aspects of consumption, but I have some footage of excessive consumption that will be a good addition to my documentary. My documentary is about how I’ve maneuvered different markets, what I’ve learned about marketing, and my thoughts on why I’m a hypocrite because I think marketing is evil. I try to answer the question “Why do we buy?” and provide evidence using my screen recordings, products I’m selling, and photographs that try to explain why consumption is out of control in America. The ending to my documentary is slightly extremist on the downside of capitalism, but I think it’ll make for some interesting content. No one likes a boring documentary!
it’s 2517, and a dome encapsulates the world that you can buy advertising space on
instead of the boring sky, we can now look at advertisements when we look up. our self-driving cars are now plastered with ads (with similar looks to nascar cars). all grass is now pavement. all pavement is covered in ads. think of it like this: every inch of society is covered in ads. on a good note, dogs are no longer enslaved to humans. we let them free since we got ad-covered robots to be our friends
if america’s so free, then how come i gotta pay for everything
how to look like a crazy person in public
listen to a recording of your favorite stand-up comedian on your phone using your earbuds while you ride the bus. watch people stare at you while you continuously laugh to yourself.
short term media project number 10
Step one - Research:
1. Vegetarian Vegetable from the portfolio Campbell’s Soup II by Andy Warhol, 1969
a. Information: This is a print of an illustration of a can of Campbell’s Vegetarian Vegetable soup. It includes the red and white Campbell’s logo, “condensed” text below it, and a yellow speech bubble that says “The Alphabet Soup”. There is an ABC on the left of the can reading vertically. There is the “Vegetarian Vegetable” text in all-caps, in a red font on a white background. The word SOUP is at the bottom of the can, in a black text with bronze embossing. To the left of the soup label, we see a “net wt. 10 3/4 oz.” text, and to the right we see what appears to be four fleur de lis symbols.
b. Tone: The tone of this piece is emotionless, considering it is a can of soup. However, the speech bubble that says “The Alphabet Soup” has a playful, child-like tone to it. This gives the can a more appealing tone, since cans of soup are usually dull and emotionless.
c. Reaction: This piece fits in nearly perfectly with my documentary about consumer culture in various markets. Campbell’s Soup is a staple in American consumer culture. The brand name of Campbell’s is known to nearly everyone in America. While I don’t know the background of why Andy Warhol made these illustrations, they are extremely well known in the art world, and most likely propelled the Campbell’s brand into a household name. This piece is an example of advertising in art, and is a perfect representation of the American consumer’s love for great marketing and pretty package design.
2. Glen Ellis Falls by Albert Bierstadt, 1869
a. Information: This is an oil painting by Albert Bierstadt depicting a massive, daunting waterfall in a nature landscape. Bierstadt was known for his extravagant paintings of nature landscapes, and this painting is no exception. We see trees in the background and foreground, a cloudy blue sky, and the main subject: a massive waterfalls from a cliff that flows into a stream that continues out of frame. Bierstadt uses bright highlights to give the painting a “pop” and further show the landscape, even though it is covered in shadows from the trees.
b. Tone: The tone of this piece is almost daunting, even overwhelming. While a nice waterfall may seem calming and subtle, Bierstadt’s placement of the waterfall in the viewer’s angle makes it appear huge. Since the viewing angle is a the bottom of the waterfall looking upward, it is much more daunting that it may be in real life. However, at the bottom of the painting is a subtle stream, which is calming and relaxing compared to the large waterfall and large trees at the top of the painting.
c. Reaction: This piece displays a scene many people in modern America never even think about. A grand waterfall in the wilderness seemed to be something known and common in the 1800s, when this was painted. However, today, given society’s advances toward industrialization and feeding the machine that is capitalism, this painting seems odd and like a relic of a completely different universe. Yes, there are still many places in America where you can see these great scenes, but considering no one really lives there, we can only really travel through to see these places. Today, we see buildings, factories, and advertisements everywhere one looks. Here, it is a reminder of a more peaceful American society.
3. The Good Shepherd by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1902-03
a. Information: This is a painting of a shepherd under two trees during the night time. The painting is not pristine, but more fuzzy and dark. The trees are silhouettes in the night time, with moonlight just above the trees. There is a silhouette of a man, presumably a shepherd given the title of the painting. There is vast land in the distance, and the lighting of this painting comes from only the moon.
b. Tone: The tone of this piece is dark, gloomy, and uncertain. Who is the silhouette of the man between the two trees? What is he doing at this time of day? The moonlight is what lights the piece. The landscape to the right of the two trees and the man are foggy and unclear, perhaps because there is not much lighting in the piece in the first place.
c. Reaction: I like this piece because the artist does a great job using just the moon light to light the piece. The mysterious look to it, the darkness, and the limited color palette make this piece detailed yet minimal. The use of only a few colors, primarily black, brown, and blue, are all one needs to create a powerful piece. Looking at this piece, we instantly get a dark, blue feeling. It has emotion, and we are able to step in the shoes of someone looking at this view in real life.
Step two - Metaphor:
The Campbell’s soup can (Vegetarian Vegetable) as a metaphor for rampant consumption in modern America.
tenor: Consumption in modern America
vehicle: The blatant Campbell’s logo, the fun marketing for an emotionless can of soup
The giant waterfall (Glen Ellis Falls) as a metaphor for the monstrous machine of capitalism.
tenor: The machine of capitalism
vehicle: The overwhelming waterfall, the desire to be at the top of the mountain (economically), the calmness of being at the bottom
The calm, blue night sky (The Good Shepherd) as what we have lost as a result of economic growth and technology advances.
tenor: What was lost because of economic growth and technology advances
vehicle: The view of of a calm, moonlit sky - before lights overtook the sky; the uncertainty of the world, before all the answers for everything were in our pockets
Step three - Explanation:
My main metaphor will be of the Campbell’s soup can in Warhol’s Vegetarian Vegetable. The metaphor is of consumption in American - not just from literally eating the soup out of the can, but from knowledge consumption from great marketing. The fun wording, the clean colors. We eat great marketing up with our dollars, just like we eat the product up: vegetarian vegetable alphabet soup. The noodles in the shape of letters. The brand name staring right at you. Without these indicators that this is something you need to spend your money on, we wouldn’t care for a can of soup. Yet, we do. We give emotion to something as simple and boring as a can of soup. We even paint a picture of it and create an entire pop-art movement from a brand name. We care about brands. We care so much about brands that we pay millions of dollars for an illustration of a can of soup with a brand name on it. Humans have only so much brain power. Every little distraction takes up our brain power, and marketing, branding, and advertising are what consumes us the most. We have no control over our lives - advertising tells us how to live. We can’t live with uncertainty. We need to carry around our “certain devices” in our pockets. We need to know that life is “certain” by posting a picture of ourselves on the internet for our friends to “like”. We need to consume more and more, and impress others with our tastes and ability to spend absurd amounts of money. We obsess over commodities such as sneakers all in the name of consumption. We are never ending consumers of information, and capitalism is winning its fight in distracting us from our true interests, desires, and passions. Capitalism is necessary for economic growth. For a higher standard of living. Like anything in economics, there are trade offs. Being rich, living a prosperous life, and having a high standard of living is a trade off for our passions, our brand love, and our sanity.
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