Creativity and the benefits

As the internet and video game technology gets better and better, I believe that so does the creativity in the young minds of Americans go up.  The internet has provided us oppurtunities to bootled easier and create some of our work off of others, such as mashups.  Now, some may think that people who do mashups are not being creative because they are just incorparating someone elses work.   However, going through this process makes the creator more specialized in these areas and gives them stragegical analysis skills by putting these together.  I also believe the same goes for video games.  Kids in America who play video games learn how to complete tasks, stick to a goal, and complete missons.  This can be incorparated into real life as we learned in the video in class.  Kids who have these stragitical skills from games are also creative and think outside of the box in many cases.  I agree that these kids who are developing these skills just need to find games that relate to real world problems such as the examples in the movie like alternative fuels.  These class periods have really opened up my eyes to how games can also have more benfits than just pure entertainment.  Although I must say in relation to mashups, I would be pretty pissed if people were stealing my work and benefitting from it.  But I don't have any good work and therefore do not have to worry about it.  Lastly, Stay Frosty my friends.

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJx8usal73k  Check out this mashup its decent if you like rap

MARCH MADNESS!!!!!

Now that march is upon us it's only American for me to speak of March Madness.   This is a 64 team tournament for D1 college basketball that is highly popular to watch, breath, and sleep at this time during the year.  I know I do.  I will fill out my bracket after selection sunday religiously every year.  The question that I have is....why do I  and millions of other Americans do this?  I think we as a culture feel the need to compete outside of the box against our usual competition like our friends because we always want to compare ourselves to others, even if its others NCAA bracket picks.  We want to prove who's more intelligent, ballsy, and overall better even if its as simple as picking games.  Others can say they just do it for fun, but in all honesty its not fun to be let down year after year picking games wrong.  They do it so they can put themselves up against another person and compete because some people don't have much competition in their lives.  Overall,  I love march madness and am currently watching a number one seed Ohio St. being beat by a "cinderella" team George Mason.  And with that...Go George Mason and happy march madness to all.  Stay Frosty

 

Masculinity and violence....they go together

Mascunlinity and violence have gone together forever.  Why?  Because men have always been in wars, men have always competed against one another in sports, and men statistically commit more violent acts then women.  Men are always taught to compete.  Competing often times leads to violence in one way or another.  I'm not trying to say women do not compete, but I am saying that most men compete more violently then women.  For example: Football.  Although men have always been violent, in the media they seem to be portrayed more violently as time goes on. In the movie/documentary "Wise Guise" there are many examples of change including toys and movies.  In the toys part you see how GI Joes muscles increase as time goes on and in my opinion they look meaner.  Movie examples were from Humphrey Bogart in "Casa Blanca" with a gun to Sylvester Stallon looking like a killing machine.  Well my main point are men are the image of violence because they are more violent and that violence is becoming more drastic in movies and toys for that matter.  Do I think this is effecting society? No.  I believe that it just shows a more accurate depiction on what I would like to see in a toy and on the big screen.  Good day folks.

Stay Frosty