FOOD PORN

Did you think dirty?

If you were, this is not what you were thinking...

So, after hearing from friends that a site called food porn and food porn hashtag is sort of a thing, I decided to search  Food Porn on Tumblr and on Google because I have heard that such blogs exist and sites. If you are hungry, the results are some good things to look at because it is basically pictures of food that most likely is not good for you, but looks OH SO YUMMY!

For Example, This picture.

These are fries individually wrapped in bacon, looks like a heart attack,but who would not want to try this, unless you are vegan of course. I also wonder the time it took to do that to each fry, must have been a long preparation time.








They also have dessert pictures.

 A caramel apple snicker cake. I want to try THIS!













Here is the link for the food porn website for your pleasure. http://foodporndaily.com/explore/food/

Global Market in Cinema and Television

In the POL reading, it explains that the meaning of localizing is a matter of location when television shows or movies are made. This is because, while a show such as Big Brother might be of Americans and our life style here in the USA, the same show title in the UK or in Africa will have different society settings and lifestyles that will be shown. The same could be said for movies because when a movie is set in a certain setting, you tend to see the local culture in the setting of the story. Therefore in global entertainment, each entertainment medium is adapted to the specific culture in which the story is set in.

Google controlling piracy?

Readings "Google changes to fight piracy by highlighting legal sites" basically is about trying to get rid of sites that promote piracy and stealing of owned materials and also how companies could bribe to make their business come on top for search results. I honestly think the fight for piracy would not matter because from the movies one I seen and the tv shows websites that exist, the sites are mainly just host sites. Meaning that the site just exists to catalog material and when you find something you want to watch, it will either link you directly to the site to watch or get something, or redirect you in the direction of the material. The sites that Google might fight to get off are probably just the host sites. While sites could be compromised by the government and taken down, new sites could be made easily for the same hosting purposes.

Town of Salem

About a month ago, I started playing an online game called "Town of Salem." It is a online multiplayer game of lying and deception. All you need to do is register on the website and then join a game and it will automatically put you in a game. You just have to pick what game style you want to join into such as a custom game (that unlocks all characters roles) or a classic game (that only select the original roles). You then set a user name for the in game play, and when you join the screen will tell you what role you are. The game is about lying to other players if you end up as a role of a mafia or  serial killer (SK). Because the goal of the game is for either the town to kill all threats for town to win. Or if town looses, then the goal is for the mafia to win and kill off the sk. Also to tell the truth, I did suck at the game at first because I had to get use to the roles because even though the corner tells you what your role can and cannot do, its a little tricky learning the strategy of how to put your role to the best use. But when i did got better at the game, I won as SK (whose goal is to kill off everyone in the town) because I convinced the town and mafia that i was just an average doctor who failed to heal people who got killed at night time. So if you are good at deceiving people, then this is the game for you. If you are not good at deceiving, the game can still be fun, because as you learn more then it can be easier yo learn how to trick people.

Lessig and POL readings week of 10/16

Free Culture 213-234 "Should Information be owned?"

Personally if i was a musician, i would believe that information should be own because you obviously want to get paid for doing something that is your job. A lot of people believe that the music should be free and take the information, such as music, free from the internet through internet sharing websites and also if songs become leaked. But I wonder if anyone ever thing how songs are their job and they need to get paid somehow, while concerts might be the money maker, the albums do help pay artist a bit too. So should information be owned, yes, because everyone has to make a living, even if they just make songs for a living that is the artist job. Everyone would get mad if they took a photograph or video that becomes well known and someone else steals it and make a profit off it while you do not.

Then again, some artists give music away for free, like U2 did recently because they were afraid no one was going to buy their album, it helped opened up new fans and could help their concert revenue.

POL The Global Flow of Visual Culture

This chapter basically is about how brands and other images become known globally around the world through the use of advancing medias. This is because images use to be spread through the use of television and print based mediums, as well as the cinema. But now days, television is now world wide broadcasting as well as the radio, because it is easy to share something from on place in the world to the next in an instant. Some brands in the world even become well known such as Nike and Cocacola and McDonalds through the use of television and the internet. Movies even play a role with brands popping up because if you notice, in some film shots in the screen, a little coca cola product could be visualized in the fridge or counter as a little advertising in important movies that the company know that people will watch. Such as the appearance of Burger King in Iron Man.

Alien Isolation

Alien Isolation was voted as the scariest game at this years E3 gaming convention. And because i wanted to play a horror game, I decided to actually purchase this game this weekend.

SPOILERS
The game is based on the classic horror movie Aliens. You play as the main character Ripley whose mother went missing in space 15 years ago to the time the game is based on. Ripley decided to go to space on a mission just for personal reasons to see what happened to her mother. You start on the ship called the Torrens and you go to a ship Sovastelink  through space walking with 2 other members of your crew and a blast happens which lands yourself alone and without communication on the empty isolated Sovastelink ship. My first hour playing the game was basically trying to find the communications to signal the Torrens to get you the hell out of the ship you were forced to get on to from a blast. This is tricky because something went horribly wrong on the isolated ship causing few survivors to kill you on sight for fear of their lives. This is because there is a monster on the ship killing everyone out one by one, therefore the people that you run into are just trying to survive like you, but will kill you because of a lack of resource.
To amp up the thrill, as a gamer, I decided to wait till midnight with all the lights off, all alone at home to play the game with sound on loud. While I do admit that the game lacks a bit in a sense of directions, or I am just really bad at directions, it does take a while to figure out where to go and find certain objects and puzzles to help you advance. The thing that keeps you on edge is the noises on the ship because it is kind of like how one is home alone and the house creaks scary noises, but in the game its the ship that makes noises.
So far i am enjoying the game but stopped around 3am because i reached the part where you are in the area the Alien resides and you have to try to sneak back out. I also stopped the game because I died... I was trying to sneak across to some chamber for a radio thing, but turns out the Alien crept up behind be and impaled me and covered my face with its hands, and to be honest, this did scare the hell out of me because it was all quiet then BAM i was dead.

I look forward to playing the game again tonight. BUT, WHY LET THE PLAYER FIND A GUN IF THE GUN IS USELESS AGAINST THE ALIEN!! .... it did not die.

POL 265-279 Advertising, Consumer Culture, and Desire

The reading talks about how advertising, in a consumer society, is part of capitalist consumer cultures. This is because, in modern times, advertisements are basically seen everywhere such as as the items you where, the food you eat, the logos and ads on the web and even the ads that are posted on subways or buses. This also all started in the late 19th century when modes of transportation was readily available to easily get around the world. This consumer movement also started the separation of work and home life. The reading also talks about how advertisement shows a promise of transformation, such as "if you buy this, you will look better." Some advertisement will also make it be seen as you will be of a higher class if you buy certain products as well.

Reading "Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things"

The reading is basically about how everyone uses a categorization when it comes to talking, understanding and listening within the world. For example we categorize animal species and even people. Humans also categorize everything in order to make sense of any subject. Therefore, if a system of categorization is changed, the understanding of everything else will change like a ripple in a pond, affect one thing and the rest will be affected one way or another.

Porcelain Dolls are SPOOKY

Last night I went to watch the movie Annabelle. If you do not know what Annabelle is, its sort of like a prequel to the big horror movie last year "The Conjuring" because Annabelle is the doll that is seen in the beginning scene of the Conjuring and they just say that the doll is sealed away and blessed twice a month by a catholic priest because a demon inhabits the doll. Also that it is best to just seal the doll away rather than destroy it because destroying the doll will only just allow the evil within to live in another physical object or even a person.

Both movies are based on a true story from the Warren couple cases, but Hollywood changed the look of the real Annabelle to a creepy porcelain doll.  The original doll was actually a raggedy Ann doll. I personally like the choice that Hollywood made because porcelain dolls are, in my opinion, just plain CREEPY, and the raggedy Ann doll just looks like an innocent doll. Obviously the real Ann doll was a scary experience to whoever owned the doll in real life because it moved throughout the apartment and scratched messages everywhere, but when the story gets retold people would probably be wary like "really, that innocent doll is the most dangerous thing ever?" It could also be understood that besides for a creepier look, the raggedy Ann company probably didn't want to loose sales if the movie was made to portray the real doll.
Besides the Hollywood changes of the dolls looks, the movie also amps up the the story to make for a better movie such as a monster at the bottom of a dark gloomy stairwell along with other spooks. I quite enjoyed the movie but I will still keep away from porcelain dolls and never purchase one from an antique store because those dolls at that type of store could be haunted since their owner is probably dead. 

POL Media in Everyday Life

This chapter talks about how media became an important structure for daily life. Especially how now days people wake up to alarm clocks on their phones or tablets to then watching then news or reading about the news on the internet. However, media in everyday life, back in WWII times, use to be used for making people want to be patriotic in order to help win and fund the war. But when the war was won, people more manufacturing began for consumer usage so media was played out to show what people should have or need to have in order to stay up to date in the culture.
The reading also shows that besides marketing products, the media also showed graphic news such as JFK assassination. It is also known that the media could also influence the public to form opinions such as when the Vietnam war became broadcast back home to what was happening making the war unpopular to everyone.  But in present days, the media could be lies or just one point of view and more people are to question what is happening than people did back in wwII times. This is because of social media and shows like the Steven Colbert show that make fun of how normal news is presented to theorized the other side of the story.
All in all, there are some people who follow the media and believe everything, and there are also those who question what is really happening.

POL Copyright

Part one of this weeks reading involved the usage of copyrights. The reading explains how copyright works; such as when you work for a company, all your ideas and inventions will belong to the company you worked for and not actually belong to you. Most companies do this and some companies, through my experience, forbids you to do similar work outside of the company as a personal profit to yourself, such as family portrait studios. You sign a contract stating that you can not take photos outside of work for profit.
The reading also covers a doctrine known as the Fair Use Doctrine. This law basically covers that it is OK to use copyright materials for education purposes without permission as well as a few other things.