BTADpoles Sticky Notes
BTadpoles
Category Title: Art/Music, Architecture
plays, ballet, opera, symphony, photography, color, tattoos, music, propaganda, political cartoons, comics, monuments, EMP, & churches
1) Emp ~ Experience Music Project
Everyone around here knows about the big blob that screams communication, good or bad; everyone has an opinion. The truth is, it is dedicated to the exploration and creativity of the music industry. People come from all around to experience the essence of all genres of music and music history.
http://www.empsfm.org/aboutEMPSFM/index.asp
2) Tattoos ~
Humans have marked their bodies with tattoos for generations. It is a way of expressing themselves or a way of branding. Back in Biblical times when a people got captured they would brand the women so everyone would know who they belonged to and where they cam from. Today all the people I know who have tattoos have a story to tell about them.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/tattoo.html
3) Propaganda ~
Who doesn’t know about Rosie the Riviter? She was a cultural image/icon in the US who represented Women working in the factories in WWII. In today’s world the propaganda displays itself in ads and new stories that can be manipulated to say anything the writer wants it to say.
http://www.stinkyjournalism.org/Political_propaganda.php
http://library.thinkquest.org/C0111500/ww2/american/amerprop.htm
4) Photography ~
Photography is one of the best ways of mass communication I can think of. It crosses language barriers and touches many of our senses, you can feel sad, happy cold or hot just by looking at a photograph. It can bring you into a close relationship with a different culture in ways words could never do.
Nation Geographic magazine is a good example http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/
5) Monuments~
Probably the most memorable monument that goes way beyond mass communication is the Twin Towers. Those towers, which represented a symbol of capitalism and America’s wealth were known around the world. The disaster that happened spoke of violence and hatred to the entire world.
5) http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/twintowers/twintowers.html
Jacek Utko…Designs to save Newspaper
Can the newspaper be saved? Could we have saved the P.I.? In my opinion I agree with Jacek Utko that the fate of the newspaper is bleak at best. Redesigning Jacek’s newspaper made a huge difference in how aesthetically pleasing it was. And its rising readership was proof of that. Having said that I can only assume that today its readership has decreased. There are to many free local tabloid types in competition with a purchased paper.
The people I know who still get the newspaper delivered to their front porch, very few indeed, skim thru headlines, look at the ads and end up at the crossword puzzle. What do all these have in common? They all have visual design aspects to draw us in and captivate our attention. If the headlines don’t grab us we don’t go any further. Everybody is so busy and the news is so instantiations and available at the click of a mouse button nobody has to wait to get a big newspaper that, depending on which one you get, is totally bias in one direction or another. With the Internet you have access to multiple points of view.
I’ve noticed a trend just in my own mailbox. For example, “The Redmond Reporter” is a local tabloid that has lots of visuals and just enough information to keep me informed about what is going on in my community. You can scan and read the whole paper standing at the kitchen counter.
I believe the basic newspaper, as we know it today will fade away but will be replaced with something different. The Internet may be our main source of national/global information but still locally we will have the newspaper like Jacek produced.
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