The "Charged" Message

This was the former Lebanese president named Bashir, who was in office twenty years ago. This man was a great leader and very loyal to his country. He was also the head of the Falangist Christian party, a man of god. Lebanon is the only Middle eastern country lead by a Christian president. So for Bashir to be the the leader of the Falangist group was a great thing for the country. He was assassinated right after he ordered all of the citizens of Lebanon to return their weapons to the government. This caused some fear towards opposing countries that do not wish peace for Lebanon. So this is charged full of love, adoration and pride from the Lebanese people for their beloved president.

Realism & Perspective Blog

This game is called Bugdom, hopefully this is known from the videos title. This game is very simple, but very fun. The bug is a rolly polly and this is the character that is played by you.

The game is older and is not as high tech as most new video games and the geometric linear perspective is not great. Object stay the same size whether Mr. Bug is close or near.

The way the game is set up is that the view is as if you were running right behind the bug, so it would appear to be pretty hands on. The way the game creator

made the depth perception is as realistic as it gets when video games first started to come out. The depiction of hills, height and length of the flowers and

objects in the game seem accurate. There is no subjective gaze or violence, except when ants that are attacking Mr. Bug are coming, then kicking ants it a

must. This game was so much fun five years ago, everything has evolved so much, its almost scary how real video games get!

Modernity: Spectatorship, Power & Knowledge

For the first Image I have chosen the ever famous American style hot dog. This image defines New York to me as hundreds of football fans encourage their players. As people crowd the stands, hot dog vendors all along there are people yelling " Hot Dogs, Get your hot dogs!". This is a norm that to me many people could relate to. I do not personally eat hot dogs they scare me, but aside from the point, the whole be a true American and support your team while eating an all American hot dog is a norm in America for sure. To make my point this image was put on the internet by American Digest.

In this alcohol advertisement this woman is dressed in full on cowgirl clothes. This is the foundation of American culture in a sense. Way back in the day and even up to this day this has been known to be a typical American style dressing, people road horses all the time and had to protect themselves from the hot sun, so the hats would definitely come in handy, heres the catch, vodka is not a typical American drink. You see the cowgirl and then you look at the bottle of vodka and think that she should probably be advertising whiskey by a fire in the country side. So this is not really a normal thing to see in American advertisements, it sends a modernized outlook to me.

Ok so for my last Advertisement I chose a cigarette advertisement because to me a lot of what a typical outlook on America has been all the booze, cigarettes and hot dogs /football games. I decided to leave the football games for another time. This is not a negative blog mind you; to me throughout the years I have seen many movies old and new. In most movies there is a combination of drinking and smoking, you begin to notice more and more actors light up a cigarette. There have been so many cigarette advertisements that basically state that you are not an American man if you don't smoke "these" or you are not an elegant American woman if you don't smoke "those". In this cigarette advertisement there is a catch, Santa and cigarettes do not really go together and they never have. This is strange growing up we are led to believe this is father Christmas come to give us our presents and spread the joy of holiday cheer. Then you add cigarettes to the boiling pot and it is the ultimate message of 'celebrate the holidays with your loved ones on a fine snowy American evening: Oh and smoke!!!' No thank you.