Haley Kaelin | Movies

Psychology and Movies?

When Haley had mentioned the fact it was related to psychology in a way, it made me really think. Was it really related to two separate subjects that were completely different? After a long realization though, what Haley said was true! With the experiences involved to make the movie medium such a popular one, even in today’s time, psychology can be applied to it. With the aspects of how the human mind works, the experiences are something that we grown accustomed to in order to per say go with the crowd and be part of the trend that everyone has been in. It’s interesting to find out how these two things work out to keep the industry surviving, but not just movies itself. In many other ways, many of the other mass mediums today can still apply psychology to how that certain medium is able to keep on going in modern days.

Haley's post about movie theaters can be found here:
http://haleyk1.blogspot.com/2013/11/lecture-on-movie-theaters.html

Kate Hatter | A Cultural Underground No More

Not Affecting Just Mass Mediums

When Kate had mentioned about the cultural underground that wasn’t exactly underground anymore, I totally agree in which how the internet impacted it! As well as Harlem shake, many of the fads and music that seemed to be only know to a smaller public could now be discovered by a mass audience which messed up those who knew the things before everyone else since they wanted to be unique and not as they say “part of a crowd”. It really does become fascinating in the end of how the system of the internet is able to mass impact many crowds of not just media mediums, but also mass groups of people whether it’s just something still unknown or soon to be widely known.

Kate's post about the Internet Lecture: http://teawithahatter.blogspot.com/2013/11/no-cultural-underground-harlem-shake.html

Nico Pagni | Recordings

More to music than just entertainment.

Nico definitely hit his points straight on about our lecture! Music really doesn't serve as just entertainment but actually so much more. It allows us to spread info throughout the world along with teaching "language". This language includes many things. Referring to what Nico said:  

"Bards, which in the olden days, went from town from town, reciting verses from songs. And in these songs, they usually contained information of landscape, cultures, or events from the past. So, the people that were listening to the bard would most likely learn something that they didn't know."

Pointing out most of the key information, Nico's posts could be used as a way to study since it's clear and straight to the point. Though honestly, there could have been much more info that should have been said. As well as the music industry taking off, there were also many other events that allowed messages to be sent. Most of this can be seen during the Civil Rights Movements, the Rock era and so much more. Allowing us to communicate widely, this is how modern evolution of music messages were brought up from back them till now. Like Nico had said to end this post cleanly - Music, having a new wide perspective is now something that contains messages in which we all have to listen more closely to decipher.

Nico's Post on Recordings @ nicopagni19.blogspot.com/2013/09/music-lecture-response.html

Seyda Muratova | "Miss Unamerican"

Racism in the 21st Century!?

Looking throughout many blogs, here came up Seyda's post. Here I thought, 'why would I forget such a big thing which happened only last week!?' As many people know, Miss America was crowned just last week. She's a beautiful, intelligent lady that deserved a title and yet Americans were so frustrated and mad. The reason? She's from Indian descent. This is one topic that Seyda pulled off a very bold, strong opinion about. America does not have an official nationality! Really..

"This country is supposed to be built on freedom and equality so why are people hating on this poor girl?"

Those people on social networks ridiculed saying that, white-skinned people should win it. Honestly though, what is America thinking of now-a-days? Like Seyda said, this is America! She was born here in New York and she is willing to represent the U.S. in the international pageant. Many people had said things like how she was a terrorist, but come on people - first of all she's Indian so she's either Hindu or Buddhist. Second of all, is it really that necessary to even say such things? Many people in the United States are of different ethnicity and we should be proud of that. Reading the well..cruel but true realizations in Seyda's post about it, it's a bit disappointing in which how America is still like this. 

Seyda's Post on Miss America @ seydamuratova.blogspot.com/2013/09/miss-america.html