2 new version and a couple of pic released.

2NE1’s full CF for Baskin Robbins

GhostWriter in Endorsements | 23 Nov 2009 – 11:11 AM

Remember the 15 second CF that 2NE1 endorsed for Baskin Robbins? Well, the full 1:21 CF is out and it’s very cute. The CF reminds me of something that Girls’ Generation / SNSD would do. 2NE1’s persona in their commercial films are very different than their on stage presence.

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In this weeks blog I am going to talk about web personalization. I going to say how I feel about personalization if I am for it of if I am against it. I will provide evidence for my opinion, so I can justify what I am trying say and get across. I will also try and show good or bad examples of personalization through images and links to sites.

My thoughts to web personalization, are that they are good as they can make a website a lot more interesting, and also they can give you ideas to buy products through web adverts such as widgets these can be very useful and they make a website look more interesting.

(the image above is of contextual Advertisement)

If a website looks eye catching a tasteful then a user will be more inclined to use that site, instead of a bland boring site that will loose a person attention straight away and the user will probably go onto another webpage, in some cases people can over personalize a webpage and this will cause the page to look very cultured and can do the opposite of the personalization the webpage in the first place and the user may not even bother using the webpage as it is to cultured and award to use. If the personalization is done properly then it can have a great effect on the webpage increasing the amount of users. If a webpage has been personalized well the website can then use application such as:

• Targeting advertisements and promoting products
• Managing marketing campaigns
• Managing Web site content
• Managing knowledge
• Managing personalized portals and channels

It is very easy to peronsalise a webpage and i have shown an example below using http://www.google.co.uk/ig?hl=en&source=iglk

This is the page personalized

In this fianl image in my opinion is a good example of webpersonalization this image is of the www.hmv.co.uk the reason why it is a good example is because it have widgets, data mining, Browsers into buyers, Cross-sell, Loyalty methods incorporated

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I was asked a little while ago why I shoot a lot of hands and “headless” shots.  While facial expressions tell the exact story, I find that body language, other than the facial expressions, tell a more interpretive story.  And that’s the kind of story I would want to tell, something that leads towards personal introspection and interpretation.  As a second shooter, I can do all sorts of creative things that a main photographer can’t always do due to time constraints.  Like trying out different kinds framing, interpretive shots, various perspective shots, etc.  When I took a summer course at Rutgers University called Creative Arts therapy, (mixing my psychology and studio art work) I had my body language described to me.  Unknowingly, I might add!  I was walking up to my classroom and the professor was behind me examining my body language as I walked to the room.  She explained to me, by just looking at how I walk and position my arms and the movement of my arms, she could tell that I was relaxed, confident, and had a sort of power to my walk.  Also that I was very facially expressive, when she looked at me in front of the class!  So long story short, just observing the body, neck and below tells a lengthy story about a person also!

I also had an art historian examine my work and had more of my thought process and behavior deduced, but that’s a story for another time! ha!

This was during Chris’s and Margot’s rehearsal dinner.  Sure it wasn’t the big wedding the following day, but you can see a slight edgy feeling to the guy and mom in the photograph.  Her hand, (DEATH GRIP!  just kidding!) on his left arm and what looks like he is holding his hands down by his waist casually implies a soft touch, confidence and excitement for the future.

For that reason I try to do a lot of interpretive shots.

Framing people in a frame is pretty cool too!

Though sometimes is a hit or miss.  But shooting thru chairs usually work!

Every now and then I get shots like this:

Which I think is totally cool!  Candid to the extreme and sweet framing of the B & G!  Too bad the LCD screen wasn’t a tad larger…

thx to eiji unnie for help me kekek
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Over heel New York vind je illegale billboards en reclameadvertenties. Enkele inwoners waren het beu dat de adverteerders de openbare ruimtes inpikten, en besloten actie te ondernemen. Dat deden ze door 120 illegale billboards te overschilderen met kunstwerken.

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Me llama la atención esta noticia al respecto de que el spot viral para internet que creó la agencia Euro RSCG para la marca de agua Evian, ha ganado el récord Guinness del anuncio más visto en la historia de la humanidad, con la nada despreciable cantidad de 45 millones de visitas:

Y la sorpresa no viene precisamente porque sea un anuncio X, sino porque, a mi juicio, es un fusil de un anuncio que salío en México hace ya un par de años para galletas Marías de Gamesa, donde salía un bebé bailando una canción de rap:

¿No sienten el parecido? De hecho, creo que las dos ideas son bastante regulares, nada sorprendentes.

Having that growing dream and passion for being a photographer in the fashion industry, I’ve taken to poking through more magazines and exploring the field further on the internet. But rather than elaborating on my discoveries or insights on this new career goal, I want to take some time for some rusty writing in this very loosely tied sort of essay. thing.

We prefer to record tv than watch it live so we can fast forward through the commercials. If a good song on the radio is followed by a commercial, we change the station. Telemarketers, door-to-door salesmen, even that perky chick at the register asking if you’d like to join their membership, can all shove it. We’re tired of being solicited! In fact, there’s only one exception to the rule (when it’s not the Superbowl), one time when we’ll actually pay to be advertised upon: picking up a magazine.

After all, what is a fashion magazine without its thick entree of ads?
Fashion magazines – fashion advertisements in general – are ceremoniously criticized for undermining the natural woman; that is to say, any average-sized, curvaceous, small-chinned and big-nosed woman exposed to the ordinary dose of pubescent acne, sun damage and a many sleepless nights leaving bags under the eyes and otherwise completely virgin to the magic and cursed courtesy of Photoshop. However, there remains a level of art to it all, a glimmer of sophistication untouched by the slew of other ads in the world, all convincing us of essentially the same thing: You need this. Whatever “this” is. And as I was flipping lazily through my latest issue of Vogue, an obvious truth began to buzz. By no means an epiphany, I realized that the things I wanted while looking at the ads were rarely ever what the ad was supposedly selling.

Looking beyond the fact that the beautiful woman had arms more toned than I could ever achieve, a face more flawless than an infants’ and most often an ensemble I only dream I’ll be able to some day afford, it was most often the setting and expression that suddenly made me wary of the product. Why, for example, does a seemingly strong, proud, beautiful and successful (or at least well married) woman stand with a posture concave? I’m looking at a woman holding Louis Vuitton, standing at a negative edge pool on some lovely mountainside – a dream house beyond the photo’s frame, no doubt. So why is she bent? Why is she cramped? compressed? depressed? she looks owned.

Another ad, this one for Gucci, also at a poolside scene. Some gorgeous hunk in the background, emerging from the water with his clothes on. A skin-and-bones blond with a bag twice the size of her pretty little head in her clutches. She’s languid, eyes closed, and she looks one of two ways to me; blissfully drained after an orgasm, or (as was my first suspicion), utterly lifeless and useless from malnourishment. Powerless. A woman shut down and made mannequin for life.

I’ll turn the page and turn my focus; optimism. After a dreadfully predictable ad for chocolate bearing some beautiful broad in a bed, I flipped the photo and stopped; blinked; and brought the book closer to my face. A two-page spread for Juicy Couture. It was the bare nipple that caught my attention, first because I couldn’t believe they could expose that much in a Vogue magazine. Then I noticed the small happy trail beneath the belly button. I should explain that the model has shaggy shoulder length hair and bangs with a down-turned head, making it impossible to see the eyes or much of the face at all. Slung on one shoulder is a cheetah fur coat, a large leather purse hung from the wrist, and a tutu-like dress haphazardly fixed around the waist. It’s a man – sort of. Anyone who knows me surely won’t be shocked by now to know that I am, in a word, intrigued by the challenges against masculine and feminine. On the right side of the two-page photo is a woman (although it could very well be a man too); pale with sort of an Elvis Presley do and a black suit. I didn’t notice her. Written on her page is thus: “Do the don’ts. You can always get what you want.” The photo all together makes little sense at a glance and it’s hard for to me to dismiss it as an advertisement, rather than a piece of cultural art. What is it saying? What does it suggest? What is their purpose, this fur-clad gender-ambiguous person and the stark contrasting pale face in the black suit? I’ll bet most people will hate it. And I’ll also bet you won’t be able to stop looking at it. Does this make it a successful ad, or a conquering [political] message?

But in general, as an overall rule in all the glorious artistic genius and plethora of highly respected photographers and talented models…Where the bloody hell is pride? Strength? Life? Why do they look empty, soulless, bound, broken, used? So perfect in complexion and tone, yet utterly void of a soul. I want to look at an ad and feel good; about me, about the product, hell, I even want to feel good about that model. I don’t want to buy Gucci for the rights to be a bitch – periods do that for free. To end on a high note, I’ll actually draw attention to an ad by Chanel. Some cutesy dark-haired thing in leather with a weird head piece that I first mistook as a tiara and now wish it were because it works. She’s leaning on a faceless guy wearing fingerless gloves, looking over the rim of her sunglasses with an expression that says to me “let’s play”. And I immediately said to her, “I’d love to!”

The Tough Guise

While watching the movie entitled “Tough Guise: Media Images and the Crisis in Masculinity” two of my close male friends kept appearing in my mind while Jackson Katz explained the various effects that media has on young men and women and their idea of what masculinity is. The following night that we finished the video, I was talking to these two friends and decided to ask them a couple questions just to see what they thought about different topics. Friend 1 is what I believed to be one of the best examples of a stereotypical male, and Friend 2 is what I believed to be not as largely affected by the stereotypical expectations of men.

From the various questions asked I picked the strongest six questions and responses to present in this blog…

Questions:

1)      Do you firmly believe in sports, and if so why?

2)      Why do you believe that sports are mandatory for men?

3)      How has your parents (particularly your father) influence your personal relationships and views on what a man should be?

4)      What would you describe as an acceptable man/ what would a guy have to be like to be your friend?

5)      Describe your dream girlfriend.

6)      How do you feel about how women are portrayed in ads (like the sex-pot, dish-pot, silenced objects of sex type ads)?

Answers…

Friend 1:

1)      Yes because sports are like mandatory for men.

2)      Because that how I was raised? You were a boy; you must play sports or be fat.

3)      I don’t know.

4)      Dutch and athletic.

5)      She has to be shorter than me, brown hair, not huge boobs, but has boobs. Walks with confidence in herself, cares about me and respects who I am.

6)      It doesn’t bug me, it’s their choice.

Friend 2:

1)      Yes… in a way, where they build character and friendships, and also that reassurance comfort from a team.

2)      No, they don’t make or shape a man. Nor do they don’t prove your manly, your virtues and beliefs do.

3)      I don’t want to be like him, he played sports and was a jock – I don’t (I’m a girly boy)  , his virtues and morals are few – mine are high, so my view on men and what they should be are of my own, and a man should be fair and just to everyone, treating everyone with respect. A man is as only good as his word – for relationships/commitments. Also a man should take responsibility for all his actions.

4)      An acceptable man would be someone who does what he can for himself and others around him, while treating everyone equal, and has a sense of duty to complete what he has committed himself to. An acceptable man also could be a man who tries to make the world better for himself and everyone else. For a guy to be my friend he just has to be who he is, as a man should be accepting of what anyone chooses to be. One thing though is that if morals of a guy are low and he treats people poorly I wouldn’t want him to be my friend, but I would accept him.

5)      My dream girlfriend would be described as someone who can accept me as I am, and not dislike me for what I’m not. Also I feel she should have strong morals and beliefs, in that she would stand up for anyone down and out or a cause that people might think stupid. She should also be able to wear pants.

6)      It’s wrong but women model for it sooooo? Also sex sells, which is wrong too, because if something can’t be sold because it’s not needed and needs to be sold as something “sexy” is just pathetic and a waste of time.

  CONSIDERATIONS:

Friend 1:

-         Lives as an only child although he has an older brother (who does not live with him)

-         Lives with both parents in the home

-         Is very sports focused throughout his entire life

-         Sixteen years old

-         Is currently in a relationship

Friend 2:

-         Lives with a younger sister

-         Parents are divorced and he lives with his mother

-         Has never been entirely sports focused

-         Sixteen years old

-         Is currently in a relationship

Analysis:

From the first and second questions it is easy to distinguish what each value and get out of the sports that they participate in. Friend 1 has a very straight focus on winning and looking athletic (of the physical benefits of sports) while Friend 2 focuses on the mental and emotional benefits of sports.  From these initial responses Friend 1 has already put the “tough guise” on and refuses to show any deep emotion when regarding sports for fear of appearing weak, while Friend 2 accepts it.

 The third question emphasizes the ability/want to look within themselves to find an answer that may not be able to quickly grasp. Friend 1 fluffs off the question with a simple “I don’t know” therefore showing that he does not feel the need to look for the answer or to appear weak by analyzing within himself. Friend 2 looks for the answer and hints heavily at the affect that his parent’s divorce has had on him by stating things like “I don’t want to be like him” and “A man is as only good as his word – for relationships/commitments. Also a man should take responsibility for all his actions.” From these two examples it is easy to gather that Friend 2 does not have a particularly strong relationship with his father. This is probably due to the stress that the divorce has placed on him and incidents that have happened afterward.

It is interesting to note that in the fourth question, for Friend 1, race enters the picture; therefore amplifying the racial stereotypes that are found within the media. Athletics, again repeats itself within Friend 1’s answers showing the need for acceptance through sports. Friend 2, again, identifies moral qualities and characteristics within men who he looks to befriend. He also stresses the idea of acceptance of all even though he may not agree with everything that that person does.

Regardless of the other questions, I believe that question five is the most telling of these two individuals. Friend 1 immediately identifies physical characteristics that are shallow and changeable (hair colour and breast size), he identifies height as an issue demonstrating that he needs to feel powerful in the relationship by being taller. The use of confidence, made me laugh to myself because the first thing I thought of was the phrase “confidence is sexy” contributing to the fact that he wants his girlfriend to be “sexy” which then can be related to other things. Both Friend 1 and 2 identify that they want to be accepted as who they are by their girlfriends and the need to be accepted; showing that they are both insecure with themselves. Friend 2, reinstates his importance for morals and values and shows a humorous side by adding, “She should also be able to wear pants.”  This phrase can be easily linked to, how he does not need a “girly-girlfriend” in order to feel appreciated.

The last question, I believe is also interesting to see how each of these young men appreciates women. Friend 1 says that it doesn’t bug him, therefore implying that he does not care for women’s rights and that he does not truly value or appreciate the women in his life. Friend 2 shows that its wrong but it’s also the women’s fault (as stated before with Friend 1). He also recognizes that most products do not relate to the sexy image that they are advertised with but admits that as a society, sex sells.

I find it very interesting that both of these friends have grown up in small towns and small schools so the exposure through schools is not high for either of these boys. The sibling issue is interesting however, that Friend 2 has a younger sister so he is more accustomed to having females around, and that Friend 1 has grown up in an environment where he is generally the center of his parents’ attention since his older brother does not live with him.

The imaging that the media presents to all young people are shocking and disgusting (see” I Gotta Feeling” post) but to see the direct influence that these medias have in both positive and negative effects hit so close to home is very eye-opening for myself.

**Both friends were notified that their answers would be published on the blog.

Montreal Transcript

2 December 1841

Invalids will observe with satisfaction that the enterprising proprietor of Caledonia Springs has reduced the price of the waters of the Canadian Spa, so as to put it in the power of all to purchase.  The Medical Faculty unite so warmly in recommending the use of the waters, that the extra consumption will no doubt indemnify the proprietor for the great reduction made in the price.  The cures during the past season at the Springs have been more numerous than on any former season; indeed, the reputation of the waters is now placed on a sure basis, by the sure test of experience.

Montreal Transcript

2 December 1841

Mr. Sutton’s Guide to the study of Geography, a pamphlet of Geography from the press of Mr. Lovell, has just appeared.  We observe that Mr. Sutton has determined to remain in town during the winter, and will be engaged in Teaching, as well as in delivering Geographical Lectures.  Not having had opportunity of judging personally, we are unable to speak as to the merits of the system adopted, but notice, that recommendations from Charles Mondelet, Esq., Mr. Benjamin Workman, Mr. Alexander Workman, and Mr. Grafton, of Montreal, are published in the pamphlet, as well as from several ministers and teachers, who speak from observation of the excellence of the plan of instruction which Mr. Sutton follows out in his schools.  A Lecture on Geography will be delivered on Saturday evening next, and on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings, at the British and Canadian School Room.