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course reflection
Culture has 4 characteristics. The first one is culture passed from generation to generation by the process of inculturation. It means that we get our culture from our ancestor and they teach it to their generation until us now. The second is Culture is shared. It means that the content of culture is shared to the entire community. The third is culture is symbolically expressed and transmitted. The most important symbolic system is language. With language people can passes the values information, experiences and history to new generation. The last is culture is adaptive. We can use our culture everywhere. Like in the
The ice berg as a culture means that we can’t see a lot of culture because it hidden in side it. Like the ice berg 90% is below the water so we can’t see it. So, we can split the ice berg into 2 parts. The first is above the water in culture part that people can see is dividing by 2 sections. The first is formal culture and the second is technical culture. Technical culture is a culture that we do it the rules is easily known and we know the reason to such as working. The formal culture is that we do it but the reason why we doing it is not clear such as folk dancing or ritual. The Part that below the water or we cannot see is called deep culture. People used to know it by imitating other people usually their parent or people that affect their life. The example is child rising, and friendship.
Salad bowl means that we see a bunch of people like a bowl salad. We can see the difference between them like the culture or the races like in the bowl of salad we can see many vegetable in it. Right now I live in
Pop culture came from 2 different words Pop as popular and culture. If we separate the meaning of each word we know that Popular means that a lot of people know it. And culture mean behavior or believes that people have. So, Pop culture itself means that some behavior or believes that a lot of people knows about it. Pop culture made of 4 different items. There are objects, people events, and places. The objects mean that a lot of people doing that object like rap music if you hear radio everyday a lot radio playing rap music more often than any other music. The second is people as cultural icons. For example in America the winning of Barrack Obama as the first African American president makes African American in America get their rank more higher than before. The third one is Events. In pop culture the events are those large group of people participate in or can relate to. Such as the Oscar for all film makers really affect people in this year Oscar they had a surprise that the film that people think will win are lost and some of the still don’t believe it. The last one is places. It means that there are hold special meanings in that place. Like
Some times pop culture is more difficult to understand than culture. As example if we read Macbeth or Hamlet play its really hard to understand it as a pop culture. But Shakespeare is like a box of movies which that people can understand it without learning it first.
We need to understand mainstream before study pop culture because the meaning or both term is almost the same. The meaning of mainstream it self is the Behavior that a lot of people do. So when we study pop culture that mean we study mainstream to.
Because when we read in humanities sometimes we don’t have to remember what some term means. What we need to think is what the effect is for the community. Like we read about the Oscar in red eye and then we discuss it what other people think about the Oscar and how people respond it.
Because red eye almost have everyday news or events that updated not like out text book it now covers everyday events. And in we can get information that they not include in the text book or other people comments about events. For example about the Oscar red eye think that some people in
Johnny Depp, he always plays in Tim Burton movie. And his character usually like an insane people such as in Pirate of Caribbean he play as captain Jack sparrow
Avatar is another character that people has in three dimensional or two dimensional shapes that they usually have it in internet. We learn how to make avatar to know that we can make everything that we want in our avatar. Like me I want to make my avatar look more handsome than me and look skinnier not fat like me. Another example is the professor at law school in soul university has an female avatar in his online game.
People usually want to make themselves more powerful or better looking than their true identity. The writer trying to find someone who had a fat avatar but he couldn’t find anyone. And he generally describes that avatar are idealized version of themselves. And man usually changed his avatar gender to female. And it doesn’t have much reason it’s only because female character are treated better than male in Online games.
In virtual world we can have what ever character that we want, we can have a life that we want. Nick Yee says in his article that virtual world can trap us even more. It’s because we can have anything that we want in this world. Or it is the opposite side of your real life. For example that some looser in the real life can be a hero in their virtual world. And if that happened they can spend more and more time in virtual world than in the real life. And they can think the opposite. That virtual world is their real life and real life as virtual.
We learn to find information what kind of movies that people like or we can called it the mainstream of the community which is at that time the classrooms.
Genres mean kind or type that film has. One of the genres I learn is epic or history movies. Epic or historical movies usually have meaning to remember history of some places or country. They also have some historical background of some places
The Awards that goes to movies is the Oscar or the other name is the Academy awards. The Academy award this year is the 82nd academy awards. The Academy is an organization made from some director, producer, artist and other cinematography. It’s only 3000 people inside the academy and they have to choose the nomination and the winner for the Oscar. In
Film can make money because many reasons. There are the director are famous, the artist who play the movie are good, or they promotion for the movie is good. But it can fail because of 1 reason. That is the promotion. Even thought the director or the artists who play for the movie are good but if they have the wrong promotion the movie will fail. Like if the movie genres is drama but the trailer of the movie is comedy that may make the expectation for that movie is bad. Or they didn’t have good promotion like avatar movie they have everything for the movie like novel or merchandises
Taylor Parry is an African American big time movie star and also a phenomenon. His film is a box office more than George Clooney and Cate Blanchett movies combined. According to his distributor 90% of the audience of his movie was African American and the cast is African American too. His movie was success not because the plot or the story line of the movie. It’s because his depict black American as people relating to other people. Black character in
Seeing the big picture means that we will learn a lot of things from big pictures which is mean movies from the silent movies to the newest technology sci-fi movie. This chapter gave us a big summarize what are we going to learn in side the chapter. And tell us movie has important role to show us another people lives. The world of film reflect who we are and see our successes and our failures. .
Technology has important role in everybody’s life. Usually for student it can help them to make their project easier. Even thought, for some people technology is hard but if they already understand about it, it will really help them. As example the glogster is one of the way to make a poster it just take like 10 minutes or more to make it and search the data in the internet. But if we want to make a real poster it can cost more than 1 hour to search all the data an make them together.
Music is one of the main pop culture thing. Because in these day everybody has an ipod to hear music. You can always see in the train or every where people usually has headset in their ear. In this unit we learn about genres of music. how to analyze music in different aspect and how to respond to different music.
and the last thing is about the technology the web 2.0 it also help us in these modern day. because maybe in the future every thing can be all doing by computer so we have to know all the use of the website
Favorite Movies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaS37E3gKOU
Hachiko the dog story
It's a really sad story about the dog that really loyal to it's master. I like this movie because the meaning of the movie is really deep and this movie is adopted from original play in japan
Hachiko the dog story
It's a really sad story about the dog that really loyal to it's master. I like this movie because the meaning of the movie is really deep and this movie is adopted from original play in japan
favorite music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yw1Tgj9-VU
Linkin Park - In the end
I like this music because they combined two different music genre that is rock and rap.
Linkin Park - In the end
I like this music because they combined two different music genre that is rock and rap.
Swoosh
In generally swoosh is the symbol of Nike brand, But in this main topic is not about the nike industry. This topic is all about symbol, because as we studied pop culture we found a lot of symbol. Also synbol always representing something. As example the Christian fish is a simple symbol of 2 curved lines that transected each other to form the abstract outline of fish and tail. But this simple symbol had transformed Rome into a Christian empire
In this modern day a symbol can change the face of society in about one-sixteenth that time. Like the nike swoosh the most known icons in this country, The story of swoosh is by far the most fascinating case study of systematic, integrated and insanely successful formula for icon driven marketing. The young Oregon design student named Caroline Davidson got 35 dollars in 1971 to create that logo for professo Phil Knight (now Nike CEO) idea the importing and selling improved japanese running shoes. Nike make innovative product line make an unbreakble mental link between swoosh logo and company name. Then they think it's not hurt to drop the word Nike and go with swoosh alone. They made their first textless advertisement for US in 1996 and expanded globally later that year.For their advertisement nike spend more than 100 milion per year. What made them think they could pull it off? first, consider that swoosh is an icon. it has a simple shape that reproduces well at any size, any color and almost any surfaces. and reading it left to right, the symbol itself actually seems to say swoosh as you look at it.
According to italian semitician Umberro Eco, if we put too much word in advertisement it called clutter or chatter. And it's easier to teach every one with few common symbol that to teach the majority of non-english speakers a new language. The result is language is replaced by icons. now there are alot of words in the world that are being replaced by set of unversal hieroglyphs. After watching nike do it several companies have decided to go textless too. Like mercedez benz, whose icon is easly confused with the peace sign. According to one of their print ads "right behind powerful icon lies a powerful idea" which is definition of global communication medium for an accelerated culture. The other company is pepsi new textless symbol that looks like yin and yang. And if we look closer it more look like korean national flag which is itself a stylized yin-yang symbols in red, white and blue.
Never underestimates the power of symbol. Textless corporate symbol operate at a level beneath the radar of rational language. They have succeeded in performing another type to communicate with the consumer. if sport a religion NIke has successfully become the official church. Like the christian fish and the swoosh is the true religious icon in that both symbolize the believer's reality and actually participate with it.
In this modern day a symbol can change the face of society in about one-sixteenth that time. Like the nike swoosh the most known icons in this country, The story of swoosh is by far the most fascinating case study of systematic, integrated and insanely successful formula for icon driven marketing. The young Oregon design student named Caroline Davidson got 35 dollars in 1971 to create that logo for professo Phil Knight (now Nike CEO) idea the importing and selling improved japanese running shoes. Nike make innovative product line make an unbreakble mental link between swoosh logo and company name. Then they think it's not hurt to drop the word Nike and go with swoosh alone. They made their first textless advertisement for US in 1996 and expanded globally later that year.For their advertisement nike spend more than 100 milion per year. What made them think they could pull it off? first, consider that swoosh is an icon. it has a simple shape that reproduces well at any size, any color and almost any surfaces. and reading it left to right, the symbol itself actually seems to say swoosh as you look at it.
According to italian semitician Umberro Eco, if we put too much word in advertisement it called clutter or chatter. And it's easier to teach every one with few common symbol that to teach the majority of non-english speakers a new language. The result is language is replaced by icons. now there are alot of words in the world that are being replaced by set of unversal hieroglyphs. After watching nike do it several companies have decided to go textless too. Like mercedez benz, whose icon is easly confused with the peace sign. According to one of their print ads "right behind powerful icon lies a powerful idea" which is definition of global communication medium for an accelerated culture. The other company is pepsi new textless symbol that looks like yin and yang. And if we look closer it more look like korean national flag which is itself a stylized yin-yang symbols in red, white and blue.
Never underestimates the power of symbol. Textless corporate symbol operate at a level beneath the radar of rational language. They have succeeded in performing another type to communicate with the consumer. if sport a religion NIke has successfully become the official church. Like the christian fish and the swoosh is the true religious icon in that both symbolize the believer's reality and actually participate with it.
Unit Reflection Music
In this unit, we learn music generally. And we learn about pop culture some of the pop culture icons are musicians so we learn a lot from them. The first assignment that we have is about the 40 music top chart that famous in America in this time, so we can know what the main stream in America is right now. After taht we have to search about Genres of music and then we present it in front of the class so we can more understand about the genres. After we learned the story of the blues in house of blues where they presented it really amazing with the band and they give examples when they tell the story. we also have to learn and analysis some music video by a lot if things. As example the lyrics, performance, voices and music video. The first assignment is about lady gaga new music video which is really vulgar. Her video are full of issue like nudity, violance, and race. After that my my music is Jay-z the title is empire state of mid. the song is about new york city where he born and raise. And now he wanted to present it again. the thing that i don't know is blues music came from africa. The first time i hear them i though it's generally from America. And the bumper sticker is lerning music is not as hard as playing their instrument.
Unit Movies Reflection
Reflection Movies
In this chapter we learn about Genre. Genre means the type or kind of the movie. They are a lot of genre but horror, science and fiction or action genres are usually the famous genre that people usually make a film about. Many people like horror movie; Stephen king the famous horror writer said in his article that reason why people like horror movies is because every people have mentally ill. Another reason that people like it is because some people feels fun if they see another people tortured or killed. The other genre that I study is Science and Fiction. Science and Fiction genre from the name of the genre we can see that there a lot of science in the movie such as high tech gadget, space ship, or even alien that they are not in our real life.
Other thing that we learn in the chapter is movie industry. We studied 4 Movie industries there are Hollywood, Paramount pictures, FOX, and The Warner Brothers. They all making big movies and from that movies they make a ton of money. Like Harry Potter from Warner Brothers or Titanic from Paramount. They use the best and famous actor and actress to play in their film. The opposite of the big movie industries is the Indie movie or Independent Movie. The independent movie usually made by a small amount of money. A movie can be called independent if the income of the movie is less than half of the income of the movie industry. Independent movie usually use an A minus rated star or they not very famous.
The Awards that goes to movies is the Oscar or the other name is the Academy awards. The Academy award this year is the 82nd academy awards. The Academy is an organization made from some director, producer, artist and other cinematography. It’s only 3000 people inside the academy and they have to choose the nomination and the winner for the Oscar. This years Oscar has made a new history. Kathryn Bigelow became the first women who won the Oscar for best director. But the Movie industries film not always won the Oscar sometimes the indie movie won it to. So it’s not always about money.
In Conclusion, we still can learn a lot of things about movies like directing and others. But it’s enough for us generally know movie as people who studied it.
In this chapter we learn about Genre. Genre means the type or kind of the movie. They are a lot of genre but horror, science and fiction or action genres are usually the famous genre that people usually make a film about. Many people like horror movie; Stephen king the famous horror writer said in his article that reason why people like horror movies is because every people have mentally ill. Another reason that people like it is because some people feels fun if they see another people tortured or killed. The other genre that I study is Science and Fiction. Science and Fiction genre from the name of the genre we can see that there a lot of science in the movie such as high tech gadget, space ship, or even alien that they are not in our real life.
Other thing that we learn in the chapter is movie industry. We studied 4 Movie industries there are Hollywood, Paramount pictures, FOX, and The Warner Brothers. They all making big movies and from that movies they make a ton of money. Like Harry Potter from Warner Brothers or Titanic from Paramount. They use the best and famous actor and actress to play in their film. The opposite of the big movie industries is the Indie movie or Independent Movie. The independent movie usually made by a small amount of money. A movie can be called independent if the income of the movie is less than half of the income of the movie industry. Independent movie usually use an A minus rated star or they not very famous.
The Awards that goes to movies is the Oscar or the other name is the Academy awards. The Academy award this year is the 82nd academy awards. The Academy is an organization made from some director, producer, artist and other cinematography. It’s only 3000 people inside the academy and they have to choose the nomination and the winner for the Oscar. This years Oscar has made a new history. Kathryn Bigelow became the first women who won the Oscar for best director. But the Movie industries film not always won the Oscar sometimes the indie movie won it to. So it’s not always about money.
In Conclusion, we still can learn a lot of things about movies like directing and others. But it’s enough for us generally know movie as people who studied it.
Unit 1 Reflection ( culture)
Reflection:
Pop culture is made from 2 different word Popular and Culture. Popular means a lot of people know about it or common to people and culture is a behavior or believes that people have. We can define culture as an iceberg. We all know that some part of the ice berg is above the sea. We can split the part that above the sea into 2 piece. That is formal culture and Technical culture. Formal culture is all about rules that we know but we don’t know what the reason for that rules for example is folk dancing and ritual in a culture. Technical culture is we know all the rules and we know too the reason about the rules for example is work, or wedding. The part below the sea is called Deep Culture or Informal culture. This part is really blurred to people and it has 90% off the ice berg. Usually people learn it by imitating other people for example friendship or child rising. Main stream is where a lot of people do that. Culture has 4 elements that are Inculturation, Shared, Symbolically express and adaptive. Pop Culture has 4 elements which are objects for example is rap songs, film and etc. The second one is People many people affect our life for example for me Eminem is one of the people that affect my life he makes me like a rap songs. The third is events, events can affect a lot of people life too for example is the super bowl night where party in every places especially the winning team. Last is places, places can affect a lot of people behavior if you live in US you always hear rap music around you.
my glogster
http://akhairi.glogster.com/my-life/
my glogster poster that contain all the important thing of my life.
my glogster poster that contain all the important thing of my life.
Sunday, May 2, 2010
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