Media's Affect on Relationships

Everyone gets caught up in romance movies, but sadly the events that occur in these movies and rehearsed and practiced countless times, and there is a very unlikely chance that they would ever occur in real life. People believe that their relationships can be more like the movies by listening to what magazines and articles about relationships tell them.

Relationships are what you make of them, everyone chooses how much effort they want to put into a relationship.

The typical things they like to comment about are:

• examining likes and dislikes
• examining the chemistry between you and your partner
• the trust issues
• the problems with your partner
• pet peeves
• etc.

Sometimes they point out normal qualities and make you believe that they are negative or horrible to the extent that you dislike your partner, which i believe is a very stupid thing to do.

In the article that i read, which is one of many in the sections on yahoo's article pages, they have 5 "dating tips" you can use, these dating tips involve ignoring certain factors about your partner, ones that woman or men "read too much into." It's ironic because i see it as a the medias way of fixing a problem that they started, because many women and men are too picky today, and very obsessed about how they would like their partners to be, so this is their way of saying its okay if they don't like your music, its okay if they are not as stylish as you want them to be etc.

Source:

YAHOO!

MTV Change logo!!

For as long as MTV has been running they would always conform to the new social styles and fads, but regardless there is one thing they never changed, until now. their logo.

it is a big deal and worthy enough information to be on the yahoo news page!

according to Tina Exhoros, a spokesperson for MTV's marketing team:

"If you watch the channel, you've seen that it's definitely going in a new direction. We really wanted to see the logo featured in a new way, and this was really meant to be able to house all the great things that are happening at MTV at any given time."

This seems to be a half-truth of what is really going on, the truth of the matter is that MTV dropped the famous "music television" from the logo, if it wasn't significant, i believe, then it would not have been done at all. This only reminds me of "the Merchants of Cool" and how they are admitting to the fact that they no longer care about the music like they used to, and its about the TV shows and chasing the teens of today for their attention and money.

Power Corrupts, Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely. And guess what... in today's world, MONEY IS POWER!

YAHOO PAGE

MERCHANTS OF COOL

APPLE IPAD- and the Geniuses at Apple

i'm sure most of you hear of the new upcoming iPad, this genius contraption is the brainchild of tablet computers and the ipod touch.i phone. it is a 9,7 inch black and silver beauty.

im not going to just provide you the news, because i'm sure you have heard of this somewhere, i would like to bring attention to the genius use of media skills and advertisement that apple are implementing in order to sell this product. first of all when i first saw this product my mind was thinking up a list of cons, and fascinatingly enough apple have used those cons as a method of selling the iPad. when i noticed this it made me laugh because of how clever it was.

first of all let me state that this product is a marvelous piece of machinery and technology and i would definitely recommend it, however here are the cons i thought of:

1. It was like an ipod touch or iphone but bigger, in that it had the same applications, it was simple to use and it resembled them in style.
2. it was no where near as professional as a macbook or a macbook pro
3. it was portable which leads me to think why one should just use an ipod instead

now watch how these seemingly significant cons turn into a clever marketing strategy:

1. it will be very comfortable for new users as well as professional users and will be easy to use for people of all ages.
2. THE STARTING PRICE IS 499$ the man in the video promoting this product said: "normally products start at a high price and work their way down the price scale, in this case we are starting at the bottom, we want EVERYONE to have an iPad" this is genius because people of all ages will want to own the new iPad and it will be cheap enough for everyone to own, and in the end iPad will be carried everywhere with their little apples therefore creating mass advertisement all over the world. this will open up for people to buy more mac products like the much more expensive MacBook Pro ;)
3. almost everyone has owned or used an ipod touch/ iphone before therefore the fact that it is as simple to handle as an ipod removes the fear that everyone had, surrounding macs and their "intricacy" it also has a similar interface.

This is the best strategy i think i have ever seen implemented on a product before, then again not any company could pull this off, macintosh is known for having a series of excellent designs and products therefore they can create risky plans that will have better odds than most.

all in all i think this is an amazing product and one that truly deserves recognition

here is the link to apples website

APPLE- see front page

DIRECT IPAD PAGE- APLLE

since i was stating some cons its only fair that i state some pros:

• best way to surf the web
• experience a care-free interface for reading and writing
• touch keyboard
• best way to share photos with friends and family
• best way to view movies portably
• battery life up to 10 hours active, 1 month inactive
• most advanced touch interface on the planet
• thin and lightweight
• environmentally friendly
• WiFi + 3G *diff models @ diff prices
• all the apps and games on your ipod touch go straight to the iPad
• built in speaker
• has many accessories

Virgin Megastore? more like Virgin Mega Machines

We are all of course familiar with Virgin megastore, but for some time now they have been working on a project of incredible proportions. commercial Space Flights!

i have seen countless videos of animations and test flights as well as design schemes of the Virgin GALACTIC space planes. i find this very interesting because Richard Branson CEO of Virgin Enterprises, has a dream of space travel and he seems to be the only one with money that is trying to push the limits of reality in the average human's life. This made me feel very happy because of my life-long childhood dream of going into SPACE one day. I hope that by the time i feel its right to do it, that it will be fairly...cheap :p (see the bottom for links to videos of VIRGIN GALACTIC)

Virgin Galactic has been out in the public for quite some time, but the real treasure that i have uncovered lies with the amazing undercover project Virgin has been planning all along. Starting February 20th 2010 Staying at the Virgin Private Islands, which are owned by the billionaire chairman, will give you an opportunity to ride their new UNDERWATER PLANES, i personally think that Branson is really looking to create a new world, for the people to come. these underwater planes take passengers deep into the Caribbean.

After all who said people wouldn't pay the BIG BUCKS to experience their very dreams in reality. (see the bottom for an image of the Underwater Plane)

Sources:

• Yahoo Finance (click link)
• VIRGIN GALACTIC's channel on YOUTUBE (with all their videos)
• Virgin Galactic website

"Brooks Was Here" score by Thomas Newman from the Shawshank Redemption OST analysis

I have had this soundtrack for quite some time, and nothing in the world can keep me calm like this track.

Not only does it keep me calm, it puts me in a state of observance and intuitiveness, i feel more aware of my surroundings and the little details in the world. For some reason this track has the ability to slow my mind down, maybe this applies to others as well, it gives me a sense of slow motion, a way to drown out reality and be alone with my thoughts. This always makes me wonder wether different type of notes or the amount of vibrations a sound makes are recognized by our minds as different moods, this can be trained though...like taste.

hit the video link below to hear this track, tell me how it makes you feel.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByJsjIyS1wQ

image from blogspot.com*

Welcome

Welcome to my Media Investigation and Analysis blog, in this blog i will be analyzing various sources of "THE MEDIA" throughout a couple of weeks. these subjects will most likely be of some interest to me, then again they might not be so i hope you enjoy your stay!