December 2008
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Advertising for Music or Music for Advertising?
I’ve never been that into the politics of the music industry, but a recent article in the NY Times got me thinking about music production and commercial uses. The article was “Songs From the Heart of a Marketing Plan”, and it mostly lamented the strengthening connection between the music industry and advertising (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/arts/music/28pareles.html). The...
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The Tamed Supermodel?
Why are we so obsessed with Carla Bruni?! I had never even heard of her until this year. Apparently the supermodel only gained the media saturation of other supermodels like Giselle when she… got married. Huh? I thought the exciting part about supermodels was their extravagant life of fashion, dating, celebrities, and partying. Apparently, Carla Bruni’s story follows a different...
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Invasion of the Body Snatchers
True or false? Eyelids are now considered advertising space. TRUE! According to an article on the Huffington Post (“Pay Per Wink: The Eyelid as Adspace”: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/17/pay-per-wink-the-eyelid-a_n_151819.html), you can now sell your eyelids to feelunique.com. Their idea is that they temporarily put an ad on your eyelids and then they get exposure when you wink...
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Poor Media
So this post isn’t about any particular media object, but more of a whiny lamentation of the age old dilemma of media: working for what you believe or gettin’ paid. It seems to me in media this is often a mutually exclusive situation. It’s fairly easy to get paid, but to get paid AND work for what you believe in? That can be harder. At least for us liberal arts majors who tend to...