Week 10

Future Vision:

The amount of technology in the video and the thought of how it would change my  life is overwhelming . Being able to make new connections at the press of a button or understand  whole organizations in seconds because a billboard told me what its advertising. But it would be tariffing that my whole life would be online that it would be so easy to be scammed or stocked because everything in my personal life would be accessible to the right kind of bad guy. Also the paranoid part of me doesn't like what this would mean for my future freedoms. For example apps that we download like games and or for emoji's, whatever the reason, ask for permissions and gain access to basic information or occasionally even txt messages or voice mails. This just seems suspicious  especially as technology gets more advanced and our securities become more lax.

In some ways it would be better to have that much technology at my fingertips because there is so much good that could be done like having doctors on call to do in home check ups or connecting people in a more affective way could lead to helping people who were once unreachable. This doesn't directly affect me in that I'm not constantly sick or in poverty, but I do believe that we as people have a responsibility to help those in need and this is how we can improve. Also I would hope it could lead to unity in nations and a better understanding of people and cultures.


In the video we see many things like how easy it was to access hotels or find conference rooms to more efficiently work. The bellhop was able to look up his next client, recognize her and know her needs so that he could maximize her stay. At the business lever this is great because it make for a better customer satisfaction which lead to more costumers. At the level of the consumer it makes traveling, that normal can be disjointing and annoying, a easier and more enjoyable experience. In this world of technology everything is clean and organized. All that is seen is upper middle class workers or higher. For one thing it would make lives easier in that people would be able to work and interact in business relationships at a higher more efficient level. Another way that it would affect people is that it would create a bigger gap in the working classes because only so many people are going to be able to afford this kind of constant technology. After the divide is established it would be nearly impossible to fix and lead us into an even more dependent on physical things. This kind of divide and dependence will cause as much strife as much as it will help connect and create.

Week 3

What does work
The Dress and The Salvation Army ad:

The uproar of #TheDress all over the internet lead to all kinds of companies using it to promote or encourage their products. While the consensus is that the dress is ridiculous and defiantly was more popular than its worth, there was one add that I thought used the dress in the best way to make the biggest impact. The Salvation Army used this picture to invoke inner fear and use the bandwagon effect to get their point across.  They use the fraise many did during the dress circulation "Why is it so hard to see black and blue?" and "1 in 6 women are victims of abuse."  to promote abuse awareness. They use the #StopAbuseAgainstWomen and quickly it went viral, getting attention from media users like myself and news feeds like +BuzzFeed. They are successful in that they use shock value and bring attention to an important topic from one that is abruptly common knowledge and very frivolous.


What doesn't work

McDonalds commercial's don't work for a few reasons one being that anyone that has had a McDonalds product knows that what they advertise isn't what is sold from the buildings with the golden arches. From the questionable chicken products and unusual flavored beef McDonalds the reason they have business is from broke teenagers, people with the munchies and when your on the go. I manage to fit into all of those categories occasionally sometimes all at the same time. They attempt to use the bandwagon effect and stereotypes to get people to flock to their restaurants. In their many commercials they use people in their 20's to show that its cool to eat there and everyone does, almost like what they taught us in middle school about what people say to get others to smoke or drink. Funny enough McDonalds is bad for your health too.

 

Week 9

In my experience with music it takes all kinds of reasons for a person to like music the same for hating it. My mom hates any kind of swear words and most loud music. So to say that its hard to find music we agree on is an understatement, Mumford and Sons and Ed Sheeran are who we both like. So if there's a band that I know she wont like I guess I protect her from my music like I would a small child who shouldn't know what  the F word is yet.

But with my love for bands who scream rather than sing softly. It wasn't just her who looked at my music with disgust. Mostly people who listen to pop look at me like I have a two heads. Personally I couldn't care less but it used to bother me that I had to be crazy not to like pop or country music because those are the only "good" music in existence, naturally I got over it and then eventually made people uncomfortable because of it because why not have fun with peoples stereotypes. I mostly think that people need to get over themselves, sure you don't like it fine an I reserve the right to not like other kinds of music, just not to judge people by their music. There actions can do that just fine in my opinion.

Music is something that I've always been around beginning with my parents influances and then gragualy making my own deciacies as we all do. My mom listens to mostly Christian and classical while  my dad listens to 80's rock. When I was younger this was what I love to too, until I discovered the radio. After a few misguided years of pop and country music I finally found that my genres are typically but not limited to Alternative and folk. I've gone to Warped Tour in Portland for the last 4 years and plan to go again this summer. Basically its an all day concert that lasts about 10 hours and has about 4 to 5 stages playing at once with 7 all together. The bands range from famous to up and coming and locals. When my sister used to go years ago and she saw Paramour and Lincoln Park. In my 4 years I've seen  multitude of bands a few being A Day To Remember, The Mighty Mongo, Mayday Parade (twice and my favorite), Falling in Revise (another favorite) and a Band who had very weird music, a guy in a mouse costume covered in blood wielding a chainsaw. So there are defiantly some interesting things that go in but I love the atmosphere. Even with the moshing people are very friendly and the whole thing is just a relaxing day with people who love music, very different than some of the other concerts I've been to. My favorite band and of their songs are as listed: Mayday Parade- Jamie all over, Ed Sheeran- Give me love ( amazing in concert and hopefully again this summer), Falling in Reverse- Raised by Wolves, ZZ Ward- Move Like You Stole it, SafetySuit- Annie (only the first album though).

Week 8

On my bookshelf in my bedroom I have a the worn favorites from my childhood such as Harry Potter, Matilda, Winnie the Pooh and Granger the Overlander. To the new ones like City of Bones, Hush Hush, Long Lankin and lots of crime novels. These books say that I never grew out of my love for fanciful worlds and adventure. Mix in a taste for murder and horror. Also 20 or so books that I've bought that are partially read or waiting to be next.  That's what's on my shelf and scattered around my room at the moment.

I think that these books talk about my love for adventure and a passion to see the world, to know more than the small town I'm from. Cliché? Yes but true I read the books I do because for now that's how I stand going to school. Taking classes I don't always understand in hopes of one day seeing cultures and traditions that have lived far longer than any history book. It sounds kind of dark but my books are my inspiration and soon a goal accomplished.

My books, like friends, have come from all over picked up in all kinds of book stores. Mostly form Powell's in Portland because they have current used books and I can take my old unloved books there to get credit sometimes ones that I got from Powell's in the first place. The rest are I've picked up from the Book Bin, Borders and, my favorite, random secondhand bookstores that you can hardly walk in.

In the next 10 years my bookshelf is more likely going to be a book room and the genres will change to more sophisticated writers as they have in the past. But I think a lot of the same things will remain just for nostalgias sake and I doubt I'll ever completely grow out of my favorites even if their childish. And trashy clichés are the best for passing time on trips so there here to stay for sure.

The transition from books to eBooks is taking the market by storm and I am one of those consumers but I will never completely change over unless I'm forced to. The eBooks might be cheaper and easier to carry around but I hate the headache the glow gives me, the complete detachment that is involved in buying online books rather than carefully selecting for hours the best one to bring home. Not to mention the completely wonderful smell and feel of books you can't get that from an iPad or Tablet. But in 10 years I might not have the option of buying printed books or they will be astronomically expensive because publishers know they will make more of a profit if their produces are online.