Media Example 10

Google is offering all the web services they provide and everything a person can access through the internet, specifically Google Chrome. Google, like many other companies, is using "real life" examples of people that use Google Chrome to relate to other audiences that could also benefit from using this internet browser.  "Life is what you make of it. Make it happen."

Media Example 9

For some reason men think of dieting and diet drinks as something only women should do and drink. This ad is trying to make this "diet" drink appeal to men and seem manly by excluding women completely. The ad is of an action movie with 2 men and dinosaurs. The can appears to be designed simply, with gray as the main color. Dr. Pepper is probably trying to gain a larger demographic and help their company by appealing to men and hoping they'll buy this drink.

Media Example 8

This ad is one of the many advertising appearance being altered by technology. Your chest will be bigger if you buy the camera with 3 million pixels over the camera with 2 million pixels. Despite the ludicrousness of the ad, it probably is effective in persuading people to buy one over the other. People want the camera that will make them look the best, and the 3 million pixel camera is the one for that.

Pan e Veno

I've often passed by Pan e Veno and thought it looked like a cool place to eat. Small and intimate, it looks like the kind of place where the waiters wear white shirts and bow ties and you hear the sound of wine glasses tinkling. When you go inside, its pretty much what you expect. The atmosphere is definitely magical and romantic, a great date spot. It's an experience different from most restaurants you come across. The Italian feel of the restaurant makes you want to take a gondola ride after you leave it. Plus, the food is great.

Event article - change

I might change my event I'm writing about. The Students for Sensible Drug Policy club's next meeting on Thurs, Feb 24 is supposed to be hosting a panel of law professionals, campus police, and ACLU members to have a discussion about knowing your rights. Other aspects of the ongoing drug war will probably be discussed. I think this would be an interesting thing to hear so I might do my article on that. Just depends on what is the best event for me to attend that I think I can get the best story out of, so my tentative events are always subject to change.

Event Article

I'm thinking of doing the upcoming school play "Hush" for the event article. That is subject to change, though.. I'm still investigating events.

Morgan's Media Example

The response I seem to have about every media example: interesting. In most people's minds, a kiss on the lips is a way to show affection to someone you care for romantically. A kiss on the cheek or hand might be used to show friendship or mutual respect. Though proclaiming it is an "unhate" campaign, I wonder if showing these national leaders kissing on the lips is a form of mockery. Even the author of the write-up about the pictures uses the statement "..images of the smooching world leaders" as if he doesn't take it seriously. On the article you can even vote for your favorite kiss. It feels like a joke to me.

Stephen's Media Example

At first I rolled my eyes at the thought of a movie about Nazi's from space- I'm definitely not going to see that. Then, just as Stephen said, I saw Sarah Palin and heard her imitation accent and knew it was some kind of joke. Interesting trailer, but not my kind of movie.

Addison's Media Example

I'm a fan of USA network's "Characters Welcome" slogan. They applaud citizens of all types for being genuine people and making a difference in the community. The channel itself employs actors of all races and its encouraging to see a popular channel that is seen by the mass media embrace this idea. It's also cool to see that they put regular people in the video, as well as actors from their shows.

Restaurant Description - Mellow Mushroom

Mellow Mushroom is the type of place a customer goes not just for the atmosphere and not just for the food, but for both. Though a chain of pizza restaurants, every Mellow Mushroom is completely unique, but each maintains a trippy vibe that's out of this world. The Charleston location is definitely a favorite among myself and many other Charleston residents. The inside is painted with murals of aliens and abstract pictures with lots of shapes and vivid colors. Alternative and indie type music plays on the speakers. Upstairs is the bar, which has a slightly more chill theme, but you still know you're in a special place. Take a trip to the bathroom and you'll be intrigued by the sink between the men's and women's room. It's a long marble trough with water streaming down, very cool and eclectic.
The Clemson location has furniture placed on the ceiling, as if you are actually on the ceiling yourself, looking at the room below.

Lead - Steve Jobs and the FBI

FBI gathered file on Apple's Steve Jobs

When I saw this headline and lead on ajc.com, I definitely had to have a look. Steve Jobs is famous for, of course, being CEO of Apple, creator of awesome stuff galore. The lead reads, "The FBI kept a file on Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, according to documents obtained by The Wall Street Journal."
Why would the FBI be keeping a file on Steve Jobs?! Turns out, as I discovered in the next sentence, George W. Bush was considering Jobs for a seat on the President's Export Council. The FBI apparently had a 191 page report of Jobs' background information. The report information reveals that Jobs was brilliant, but didn't have the best social skills. Anonymous sources said Jobs was "profoundly talented, creative, and hardworking... but his management techniques were considered by many to be abusive."
Interesting, eh?

Rebecca's Media Example - PETA

PETA is known for their extreme acts in advocacy for animals' rights. Throwing fake blood on people who wear fur and dressing up as monkeys in a cage to protest testing of animals are just a couple. This PETA ad may be called extreme. These people are sexy because they don't wear fur, and being naked and cold is better than being warmed by a fur coat. I'm not exactly sure what the ad is trying to illustrate, except that these individuals apparently would rather go naked than wear fur. While the people in the ad are definitely attractive, I don't know that this ad would make people not want to wear fur. There's no emotional tug on the heart, as there may be if this ad pictured hurt and dying animals' fur being taken from them. The naked males and females do draw the eye and grab attention, if nothing else, which at least may get people to read the words instead of immediately rolling their eyes and moving past the ad thinking, "here PETA goes again..." like I do every time I'm handed a pamphlet at school persuading me not to eat meat. The ad is interesting, I'll give it that.

The 5 W's

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/us/islandia-a-florida-city-that-never-was.html?_r=1&hp

Who: Miami-Dade County Board of Commissioners
What: end to the development of resort town Islandia
When: Next month, more than 50 years after Islandia's incorporation
Where: Elliot Key, Fl; "Islandia"- in Key Largo, Fl.
Why: It's not a city, and the finding that its elected government was illegal. Many don't want to develop it, but leave it as an untouched paradise for people to visit and enjoy privately.