Showing posts with label Culture Jamming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Culture Jamming. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Art410: Post #15


My
Culture Jamming Project...

I actually ended up working with the Sabritas logo, a Mexican logo for chips, which are pretty much the Doritos of Mexico. The Sabritas company is under the PepsiCo corporation (Pepsi-Cola merged with Frito-Lay), which is one of the elite manufacturers of junk foods/fast foods in the world. PepsiCo alone is associated with so many brands and corporations like Starbucks Coffee, most carbonated soft drinks in America like Mountain Dew, and were even partnered with popular fast food restaurants like KFC and Taco Bell at one point. As a result, I wanted to expose childhood obesity through my version of the Sabritas logo since the logo is very appealing towards children due to the cute smiling face of it.


I will post my kmz file of GoogleEarth later on today that describes the locations I chose for posting my culture jamming logo. I chose these popular Mexican grocery/produce stores in Hayward that carry Sabritas because I knew they sold the product and because of its huge consumer impact in Hayward. These stores are always packed whenever I walk in for my usual pack of tortillas or what have you. Plus, I always notice how children give their parents hard times when they're at the cash register because they want an unhealthy snack like candy, soda, or chips (like Sabritas) and since the parents don't wish to deal with their child crying/whining in public they'll simply buy it for them. It's issues like these that are causing so much childhood obesity in the world and corporations like PepsiCo aren't helping one bit.

Monday, October 26, 2009

Art410: Post #13


Ideas for Culture Jamming Project...

Although I still think my favorite assignment will probably be the Indeterminacy one, I'm really excited for this assignment. We have to choose a logo to work with for tomorrow, so I've been brainstorming some of my favorite ones. A few that I've been debating over have been: Nasa, FireFox, WWF (World Wildlife Fund), Tapatio, Sabritas, Columbia Pictures, and TriStar Pictures. I'm leaning towards Tapatio just because that's the one I'm most connected to since I've used it all my life. On the other hand, the Columbia and TriStar Pictures logos would really be fun to work with for this assignment. Decisions...decisions...




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Thursday, October 22, 2009

Art410: Post #12


In response to Culture Jamming: Hacking, Slashing and Sniping in the Empire of Signs by Mark Dery...

After reading the article I couldn't stop thinking of all the advertisement that surrounds us on an everyday basis like on a bus or even on here. There's actually an option on here that I remember coming across where it asked me if I'd like to have advertisement placed around my blog for money (depending on how many clicks the ads get by people who visit my blog or something of that sort). Anyways, I really enjoyed this article. I found it interesting how Michael Deaver (former Reagan advisor) said "[the Reagan campaign staff] tried to create the most entertaining, visually attractive scene to fill that box, so that the cameras from the networks would have to use it." Similar to pretty much every reality show (or any show actually) by the way they attract viewers today. By ending the show on a cliffhanger and then showing the previews for next week's episode, editors for the program edit the preview with only the most ridiculous/hilarious/scandalous thing that happens on the episode. This way not only will they keep the grasp on the original viewers, but will venture out and hopefully grab hold of new viewers as well.

I still don’t understand media hoaxing, I don’t know how people can buy into such ludicrous stories. For example, in the article where it said “that hormones extracted from mutant cockroaches could cure arthritis, acne, and nuclear radiation sickness.” How could anyone believe that news broadcast? I find it hilarious, but at the same time it worries me that the public can be that gullible.

One last thing, can semiotics still be effective through audio? I thought semiotics was only a visual/physical thing, but after reading the article it seems as if it could still be used in audio snippets. Well, I guess the McDonald's musical tone of "bah bah bah bah bah" I'm loving it, could be an example of semiotics right?