Media Meditation #2 : Boys & Girls

[Photo of The Harvard Sailing Team]


The video "Girls Will Be Boys", most likely wont be as interesting to the guys as it is to the girls.
It's humor is good at taking a males point of view and using common conversations with the male gender and put it in to the words of women.
It's almost using plainfolks persuasive technique as well, because this video is using everyday conversation and reactions that normal men would have.
Bellow the video was put in, only 3 1/2 minutes it is a fascinating short film about turning view points.
Which makes me wonder, what would it be like if they switched it with the men acting as girlfriends.

[Found at Snotr]


Even though the video says four, there are five girls in the video, a small factor that people enjoy arguing about.
This video was created by a comedy group called The Harvard Sailing Team
These girls in the video reenact their boyfriends, in more of a role playing fashion.
Produced by the Untucked Films, it was directed by Jonathan Emmerling
The photography director was Pat Armitage and was edited by Charles Divak.

There wasn't as much to find about this group, expect they were at first part of an improv group that eventually formed The Harvard Sailing Team. They focus more on comedy, and have been features on CBS Early Show, New York Magazine’s Vulture blog, and TheAtlantic.com.

When looking for their specific website I was able to also find the video of four males acting as their girlfriends, when I will add here.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

These videos, plus multiple others, and shows can all be found on their website.
Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Media Meditation #1: Logos R us!

Good morning life
Good morning sun how are your skies above
Gee it's great to be alive and in love
-Dean Martin

[Photo of Ronald McDonald holding Big Boy hostage Found at This Website]

Irony, I would say is the best humor of it's kind.
Stepping in to a world of logos and advertisements, the sad reality of it is that it resembles a most of the real world now.
Fascinating, this had to have been the first thought I had when I began to watch it this video. It's definitely a unique animate video.
While writing this I can spot about twenty different logos from clothing to computers and more. You will never escape them, just like in the video there are logos everywhere.
Like they are Big Brother.

Yes let's scare you now and make you realize you are trapped!

Well okay, non of that seems appealing so lets turn our attention to this video. For quite some months this things has been popping up everywhere, articles all of, the video, the commercial to the video, it isn't too hard to find.
Of course that's the benefit of the internet and computer, you have everything at your disposal, it's as if giving us power.

[My favorite part is 7:35]

Logorama from Marc Altshuler - Human Music on Vimeo.

This video was created by a French animation collective H5, which is made up of three French animators. François Alaux, Hervé de Crécy, and Ludovic Houplain presented this video at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. It opened the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and won a 2010 academy award under the category of animated short.

What is neat, is that this video made of logo's seen every day, has only two pieces of licensed music. Starting in the beginning with Dean Martin's "Good Morning Life" and closing track The Ink Spots "I don't want to send the world on fire" All the rest is original music and sound design is by, Human.

This video has different techniques that I think makes it so appealing. Obviously by using symbols as one. It takes what you see every day and p

utting a twist on each symbol, or making it be what the symbol is trying to make it. (For example: The MSN butterflies in the first five seconds. Or AT&T symbol as the telephone lines.)

I think another form of persuasive technique to help it would be the timing technique, used create a suspenseful story line. Honestly, the way this entire video was presented is what made it so appealing and well made. This has easily become one of my favorite videos on the web, and have already watched it multiple times.

Hope you enjoy the video, I know I did.

"I don't want to set the world on fire

I just want to start a flame in your heart."

-The Ink Spots









[Ending credits in the video. This animate photo found at This Website]

Who am I? I don't know, but this is about me.

As of the last four to five years I have lived in Kailua Kona Hawaii. Which is fitting because I have always had a love for the knowledge of sharks and pirates, and what better way to learn then by an ocean. However I had previously lived in Edmonds Washington for fourteen years before that. My family on the other had is based out of Kansas and there is where most are living at the moment.

My media experience this summer, well it wasn't new but it was very exciting for me. For the last two years I have been working in a used book store and we are able to see things before they are put out for customers. I fell in love with the series "A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" By Douglas Adam's. So I came in to work and there it was, a gorgeous leather bound book with the words, "Hitchhikers Guide". There before me was the books following "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy," along with that exact book in order and in great condition. So I bought it, and now I am happy to have it and read it.

For a more modern media experience, I would have to say I absolutely loved "Despicable Me" in 3D I had to see it twice.

What I like is that as our society expands so does the acceptance for new things, meaning a more unique and creative angle is excepted more then ever. The expansion of creativity is phenomenal, such as movies there's Quentin Tarantino or Tim Burton, to writing styles like Douglas Adams or Stephenie Meyer with Twilight, so everything is more so accepted even it were to be hated by peers.

However there is an unnecessary fixation and dragoon to install a certain image in people. It's even it's own sex symbol. It pressures people to look a certain way, whether it has to do with weight, make up, clothes or styles it is some thing that has been at hand for years. However at this point is has gone from a simple suggestion to a necessity that could in the end send you on the path of self destruction. So the forced image and the unwarranted pressure on the people who face it is what I dislike the most.

In the future I hope to have excelled in my writing and be able to make a career out of it. Mostly to write novels, fiction based novels that are read because people like my style of writing and the idea's I have been able to come up with. So I hope these next few years can get me to that point.

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