In Class Activity 10/29

Warhol-

The internet is my companion. I wake up and consult it for my daily dose of Americana. I begin with Amazon.com. My head spins with commercial advertising. Crocs? What is this strange notion? A clog, purely Dutch, made of fur and plastic to integrate Americanism. People wear these? Everything on this site has been created to make our lives easier. The most disgusting of all, is an “Amazon Kindle”, shown at top center of the page, demanding our attention. Books are loaded into this thing so we don’t have to carry around a ton of them. This just further shows the laziness of us all. And this product idea continues, with IPODs, Blackberries (blackberries…painful thorns but delicious juice), cameras, watches, etc. All created to store information so our lives can be easier. Obvious sexuality is shown with an advertisement for Women’s Halloween costumes. This Princess Leah costume is so revealing she could be naked and it wouldn’t make a difference. But the Darth Vader costume covers men from head to toe. This disparity between male and female body image encompasses our culture. The thin tan woman with shiny skin looks at the viewer sexually as if wanting to create erotic thoughts. But the man comes at the viewer suddenly with a light saber. Ah, sex and violence. The basis of American humanity. And jealousy. The woman only looks the way she does because she is jealous of the way other women look, and how men view them. The man becomes violent at the viewer out of jealousy. “Don’t look at my woman!” And, we see new and exciting toys and technology all over the page because jealousy drives our nation to spend. I might be jealous that someone else has a newer, “cooler” phone than me, so I would buy a new one. Even a baby is dressed like Yoda to stimulate our “cute” sensors. I have a cuter baby than you. Sex. Violence. Jealousy. We find our identity as it is given to us.

Goldsmith

On the Amazon page, there uh are uh a lot of commercial advertisements. But, uh, there’s some truth to this. There is a, uh, device which holds thousands of, uh, books in it, so we, uh, don’t have to carry them ourselves. At, uh, the top of the, uh, page, there’s three pictures of what appear to be, uh, plastic clogs with fur in them, this way uh, gardeners can have warm feet in the uh, the winter. On the, uh, right side of the page there are some watches, which, uh all look very nice and shiny but uh, all show different times which is odd. Under the uh, clogs in the middle of the, uh page, uh, there are three types of phones, each, uh, a bit different, uh more advanced than the one to its left. This, uh makes me think about what we will, uh, have in the future.
Technology
Technology
Technology
Ever changing
Never ending
Technology. Its’ getting better and better now. It’s coming closer and closer. We will be are in the midst of it now and will be for the remainder of our lives. This storm of information, uh, consuming our lives. We are deep in it now, but, uh, it will get worse, more will come. We can now see Iphones and Blackberries, but, uh, what will come next? Acamera is seen in the page’s left hand column. It has 12.3 megapixels, but, uh, will that seem bad in ten years? Looking to the future, uh, I can see that we will be bombarded with even more of this ridiculous technology. Even our children are exposed to it. At, uh thebottome of the, uh, the screen, there is a “Fisher Price Kid-Tough” Digital Camera”. It is made for toddlers. So, even in single digit ages, humans are, uh, using technology, and learning that this equipment is not something of value, and does not need to be respected. Uh, feel free to toss your technology out the window. It’s uh, Kid-tough.