December 2007
15 posts
Weekly Entry # 9 This link leads to the following article: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.06/melanotan.html Thin! Tan! Hotter Than Hell!Pharmaceutical labs are cooking up a new class of pills that make looking good feel better than ever. By Wil McCarthy This article is extremely interesting. It contains information pertaining to the “Barbie Pill”. The “Barbie Pill” is a drug which is...
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November 2007
1 post
DEWmocracy
I had to watch the video clip several times because I honestly could not believe that the video was actually an advertisement for Mountain Dew. Mountain Dew’s previous advertising campaigns all contained an element of immaturity with the commercials featuring snowboarders and mountain bikers performing dangerous stunts. Even though I sometimes thought that Mountain Dew’s past commercials were...
October 2007
13 posts
September 2007
15 posts
This is a satellite image of my hometown, Bangor, Maine. I love this image because I am provided with a whole new perspective of an area in which I am so familiar. I have driven the roads, swam in the lakes and boated up and down the rivers within the image. I find it remarkable that the land and city which seem so expansive from the viewpoint of the passenger seat of a car can represent such a...
. I rarely read newspapers so I usually do not see still images of current events. This photograph was taken on August 24, 2007 and is the result of the damage which Hurricane Dean inflicted upon Mexico City. I really like this photograph because I like the contrast between the power of nature (the whirlpool) against a landscape created by man. The coloring within the photograph is subdued and has...
. I read a lot of fashion and gossip magazines, all of which include advertisements for Cover Girl makeup. I rarely pause to look at the advertisements because the photographs and text which accompany the ad do not usually interest me. Today I actually took the time to look over a Cover Girl ad and was slightly surprised to discover that I actually quite liked the photograph. Though the...
My favorite band is Coldplay and I have been listening to them since high school however; I have really never taken the time to analyze any of their album covers. Today I decided to examine the album cover for “A Rush of Blood to the Head”. The image upon the cover appears to be a sculpture of a woman’s face which is constructed of a sand like texture. As if being blown by a gust of wind, a part...
I have several posters in my dorm room, one of which is a black and white photograph of the Eiffel Tower entitled “Afternoon in Paris”. For the past two years I have looked at this poster every single day, but yet I have never spent a significant amount of time studying the image. Today, I actually took the time to really look at the poster and realized that there aren’t any humans or animals...