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Vacuum Your Persian
I know puns can sometimes be overused, but when a really clever one comes along I just can’t resist. This pet hair cleaning vacuum creates a link with their product between keeping your pets groomed and clean and keeping your house (or rug in this case) clean as well. This technique speaks to multiple groups of people simultaneously: people with pets, people with houses, and people who need a vacuum.
According to the Google Earth Day Quiz, if everyone lived like me, we would need 3.8 planets to provide enough resources. I don’t even drive a car and I’m practically vegetarian! See what your score is and find out what you can do better for the planet.
Save Olaf!
This braun ad is hilariously effective. It shows facial hair in a totally different perspective and essentially creates an entire potential market of consumers- men with beard hair. The ad implores them to think about their facial hair as if it were like the hair on his head- which leads to the next thought that if one person styles their hair, i.e. getting it cut, dying it, putting mouse in it, etc. he should also be styling his facial hair.
Stupidly Gendered Products
In creating my final project, I had to consider who my target audience was, and I decided that for once I wanted there to be a practical product that was not gendered. Sometimes it gets kind of ridiculous:
Like what the hell world, get it together!!
This clearly shows that Mulvey’s assessment that hegemony forces the minorities to view things through the mainstream point of view. Sadly, in this case, the minority is women. I think that it is horrifying that these kinds of products are seen as acceptable. Objects that men and women use exactly the same way, but they have to be gendered because the world needs women to stay pink and frilly and out of the way so they can’t threaten the patriarchy.
All this does is teach little girls to conform to society, and to think of themselves as innocent and fragile.
Thanks patriarchy.
I completely agree
The Rhetoric of Post Secret **TRIGGERS: discussing self harm, nsfw**
This submission to post secret uses visual rhetoric to provide layered messages for the audience. The text hints that the author is going into a medical profession, this is reinforced by the inverse picture on the left that resembles an x-ray. However instead of a broken bone the image features an arm being cut by a thin knife above the text book. Together, the picture and the text create an impactful and fascinating message from the anonymous poster to the greater audience.
Is VR really going to be a thing?
The oculus rift has ben around for three years now, a developper kit sells for about $400 and even if the public release gets constantly pushed back, it feels like the device could eventually end up in a Best Buy soon.
Yes, the technology is not revolutionary (think Nintendo Virtual Boy in 95) and the graphics could be improved, but anyone who actually tried a virtual reality device will attest that the experience really is immersive and new.
So is the price going to be a problem? Probably not. Let’s assume that an Oculus Rift will sell between $400 and $700, i bet numerous amount of people will still ready to buy it. When a playstation is released at $500, it quickly runs ou of stock and the oculus promises more than videogames, it offers virtual tours of museums, planets, etc.
The price really shouldn’t be a problem, especially when we look at Google’s project cardboard, a virtual reality headset made literally out of cardboard you can buy for $25 (or download a free template), slip your android smartphone in and get to a virtual world. The screen resolution of most smartphones is superior to an oculus and the right application, combined to the phone sensors, makes it a perfectly functioning DIY VR device.
I believe the only thing that really stops VR devices from being popular is its impossibility to really be “social”. What we witness now whenever the device is on display is a line of people waiting to trying it out, impatiently lurking at the guy in a chair, silent, with headphones on and swiveling his head around like an ostrich.
When people go to the movies, or play videogames or watching TV, they are all sharing the screen, sharing the space and can turn their head to see the people they are enjoying the moment with. When you are wearing a VR device, you are in such a bubble that sharing the moment with people around you is made much more difficult. If they do not have the headset on, impossible to share, and show the amazing world you are experiencing.
For the oculus to really be successful, it should be social, everyone should have one, and for everyone to have one, we all should be able to see how cool it is in the first place without having to try it out. There is some sort of paradox and I wonder if such a personal experience as VR will ever be something easy to share.
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I agree that a huge component missing from VR is the ability to connect to other people. What is compelling about the internet is the fact that the user is aware that they are participating (anonymously) in an artificial space. But as Virtual Reality becomes increasingly more and more real it will become interesting to see if there’s a shift in typical internet behavior on social media as we know it today.
The power of 4. This ad by Schick Razors cleverly shows a classic tiger tattoo where the tiger itself is shaved as well, implying that this razor is so powerful it has the ability to alter a permanent tattoo. The representation of a tattoo’d woman also hints at the intended audience of young adult women. Women that might be more likely to dawn a tattoo than their older counterparts. Younger women might be attracted to a product marketed like this because tattoos have been mainstreamed enough to be considered cool in most cases- something most teenage girls strive to be.
Comedy in Context
Within the chaotic torrent of information flowing in and out of reddit, there is a subreddit called shittyreactiongifs. This subreddit opperates around the idea of taking an existing gif and pairing it with a title that completely takes it out of context, for example:
MRW (My Reaction When) or MFW (My Face When): I start my kickass guitar solo just as the aliens activate the microchip in my brain and command me to kill my family, but I try to resist their control.
In reality, this is just a gif of Freddie King during a performance of his popular song, Have you ever loved a woman. Its interesting how just a change of title can give a picture, gif, movie, etc. a whole new value.
Focus
**NSFW picture below, possible TRIGGERS**
I decided to google two sources of information Buzzfeed and Fox news plus the key words “ferguson photos” and post them here to compare and contrast the what each of the article chose to focus on.
Buzzfeed’s first article was a series of photos exhibiting the peaceful protesters with simple explanatory captions.
Fox’s first article however was an issue of police shootings with the shocking and graphic photo of a bloodied police helmet.
Both sites pander to each own audience and what they believe their viewership wants to take away from the situation and therefore diminishing the readers ability to examine the facts objectively.
I found this image this week and thought it was relevant to everything we have been reading related to Ferguson. The author of the image is very clever in comparing an angry bear to the way police men treat black people.
At first I believed this image was something that the author had found and worked over, but after a quick Google image search, I was not able to find an original, so I think the author made the entire thing.
Even though this might not be “authentic” because it pretends to be something that it is not, the author used this idea to be able convey his or her message across. The infographic makes police officers seem like a threat for black people, in an almost humorous way, but the joke stops when we realize that this is actually true, and what is being shown in the image could actually be applied in real life to survive an encounter with an officer…
What’s In Stock?
Stock photography began as early as the 1920s, at its birth mainly consisting of outtakes from commercial magazine photo shoots. Websites like Gettyimages.com and istockphoto.com now host a multitude of images for every project, from the world of food
to the alternate universe where humans use cakes as pillows.
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The benefit of stock photography is availability of low cost, generic images that can be edited to fit a wide variety of needs. Most stock photos feature neutral backgrounds with a large area of blank space where a promotional title might go. These benefits make the careers of models like Ariane, dubbed “the overexposed model”, possible.
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In 2013, Glamour magazine posted an article about Ariane, The Most Famous Model in the World You’ve Never Heard Of. Ariane is a mixed race Chinese / Canadian woman whose face graces ads all over the world for companies she may or may not even know about. Anyone who wants to purchase the rights to use her face for personal projects or company promotions can do so without her approval. This freedom could potentially be abused, which makes me wonder: would you sell your face to an unknown cause?
My favorite:
So since we’re talking about Ferguson this week, I thought I might talk about this episode of scandal. Some context: a lot of people think that Scandal doesn’t do its part in addressing race issues even though it is focused on a very strong African American woman with a lot of power. I think that this episode which aired only a few weeks ago was meant to fulfill their quota for race issues.
In the episode, a white police officer shoots a african american teenager in the street and the teenager’s father shows up with a shotgun and a chair and sits over his son’s body still they get a legitimate person to investigate. Olivia is called in by the police to fix the situation and stop protests from happening. She instead stays to find out the truth, as the police officer claims that the kid had a knife, when the father said he never carried a knife.
It is later found out that the kid was reaching for a receipt to prove he had paid for what the officer had claimed he had stolen and the officer had planted a knife on him to cover it up.
When the Olivia finds out and confronts the officer, he goes on the above rant about how he wasn’t respected. I feel like this gives a good example of the mentality of these kind of white cops who shoot unarmed black men and think that they are some kind of god. The officer said that they weren’t taught to respect hum, but that just reminded me of the words in the Dred Scott case where they said that black men had “no rights which the white man was bound to respect”
In the end, they let the dad off with out being arrested and the police officer gets charged, which just goes to show that the show glosses over reality and goes for a neat ending, which would never happen in real life. So good job talking about race Scandal, but don’t bother if you’re not going to be accurate about what really happens in life.
Kudos to this guy for being a sick actor though!
Ferguson was an event in history unprecedented with respect to it’s dynamic storytelling through unofficial journalists all over social media. Most people in today’s world examine their sources with a critical eye, but when there are several POVs on regarding a certain situation a reader may take away something completely different than someone else depending on what source they gathered their information. Like the photo above, we could only be getting part of the story and not even know the difference.
The events after the initial aftermath of Ferguson reflect this erratic confusion among the general public.
It’s pretty impressive how so many companies successfully market their products through fear. In this ad, Timberland aligns a male human with a ferocious bear and a snarling wolf. The comparison invites self doubt to its reader, who, even if they know that the type of running shoe he or she wears isn’t the defining line between life and death, still question if he or she are good enough, smart enough, fast enough intellectually or socially in his or her own life.
Nakedness vs Nudity
In “Image Events Guerilla Girl Style”, Hanson discusses the differences between revealing nakedness and examining nudity. She states that, “Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display” (8). But what about if one chooses to reveal themselves as nude? In a modern world where the #selfie dominates social media, women choose everyday who they present to the rest of the world. Can porn still be classified as crass and objective nudity if the people starring in it elected to do so? When a person chooses to put themselves on display in that way, is it an issue within society that drives those women to reveal so much, or is it, like the Guerilla Girl’s tactics, a reclamation of male dominated nude representations of women in art and in the media?
Comic Sans: Visual Argument 1.2
Ulysseancelerhe315 photoshopped NYT front page:
Though Comic Sans is one of the easiest fonts to read, it is one of the silliest. With thick lines that aren’t perfectly straight and resemble the handwriting of a child, it is the font that can’t be taken completely seriously. Splashed across the front page of The New York Times, Comic Sans makes a spoof of, arguably, one of the country’s most reliable news sources. News titles, at first glance, appear as one might expect them to appear on The Onion. The front page of The Onion, however, is surprisingly professional upon first glance but satirical upon reading past the design barrier. In contrast, this front page of the NYT is satirical on first glance, but serious upon reading past the design barrier. Both pages aim to force readers (presumably people over 18 including students, teachers, writers and editors— anyone who has to make an argument based on outside research) to think logically and question the sources of the content they read and quote as proof. Comic Sans, in the case below, makes an additional argument by delaying the realization that the top NYT stories are in fact serious and depressing; this delayed realization elicits a emotional response that seems to say with more emphasis and shock value than Times New Roman, “Hey. You may have thought this was a joke at first glance, but this is real. #terrorism.”
I changed the font of the NYT homepage content with Comic Sans MS.
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It's amazing how changing the font totally warps the tone of NYTimes front page. It almost feels like the articles are jokes, it's hard to take anything seriously when the page looks like a PTA newsletter.
*** TRIGGER WARNING *** (i.e. discussing the rhetoric surrounding rape)
The Image above uses extremely powerful wordplay derived from absurd quotes about rape and reapplies them with respect to going in the water. It highlights the logical fallacy involved in such statements such as Missouri’s Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin who’s infamous quote, “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down” is paralleled by the bottom text.
