a little peice of me

Where pathos meets logos to find attachment can be a rare place to find inside.

I have every reason to marry him and no reason why I should not

What more do I need than to remember this? I cannot recall the last time my logic made perfect sense to my emotions and vice versa. This is what I call unreal sense making!!

Onslaught

Here is "Onslaught," a short film by Dove. The core message is phenomenal. As a forewarning it is slightly graphic.

                "Onslaught," Dove's Ad Campaign for Real Beauty
                                 Courtesy of: youtube(tpiper) and Dove

I would like to note that I am not a proponent of Dove's ad Campaign for Real Beauty based on the fact that the campaign becomes a commodity by selling its products via the campaign. Also, due to the fact that Dove is a part of the beauty industry, thus creating a paradoxical message. Too bad for those suckers buying, pun intended, into Dove's campaign. There are many more technicalities based on my argument and if you would like to venture into my thinking a link to my essay's are forth coming, but I will not bore you with technical terms and my long winded argument, rather I would like to point out the power of the beauty industry.

What I am a proponent of are the moving messages "Onslaught" so precisely put together. I will allow you to decipher these messages. I do believe this short film is a prevalent message not only for young females but for all people. The power of the beauty industry is enduring and pervasive as many of us clearly know. 

How do we confront it? What do we stand for? And how do we measure WHO tells us what and how to think? 

Civilization

"A government big enough to give you everything you want - is strong enough to take everything you have"
-Thomas Jefferson

Something to contemplate as decision makers, controllers, societies, states, citizens, political activists and President Barack Obama are seeking "change" in several facets of political direction.

Hmmm.....

What do you think?

Why Not? The Entry into My Blog

Maybe I should not start there. But the naive approach this question poses helps me to “Just do it“! My reasoning has positively developed enough to want to join the blogosphere and take part in technological social networking.

As you can see my previous entry was April. 2 and I admit that my apprehensions got the best of me until now. Why did it take so long to get me started? Here are three reasons: 1. I had to research more about what it means and what it will mean for me to be a produser rather than a prosumer of this global phenomenon (Uses of Blogs, Axel Bruns and Joanne Jacobs). 2. I repeatedly had to ask myself the same question: Do I really want to finally cave in to social networking via the Internet (since I have never had a myspace or facebook account)? 3. Have I come to think rather bashfully and shamefully that it matters not whether or not I join this social force because I am not significantly contributing to the decline in interpersonal communication or interface?!! As an advocate of interface and a concerned individual of the fact that people can live for a period of time via technology without saying a word to another human being is frightening and nearly beyond belief.

Though……..the sociocultural changes taking place via the Internet instill the need I feel to truly allow myself in on this paradigm shift one step at a time. I do not want to be an old foggie socially before my physicality defeats me and I genuinely am one. So in an effort and major step on my account to improve and explore more of the rapid changes in the field of communication I am beginning today to share myself on the world wide web.

This blog will, I am sure, evolve, but to begin I would like to safely express my perceptions, conceptualizations, and concerns in this life; and to not exclusively add to the many lifelog’s the blogosphere is made of.

Mandi it IS time to “git this blog dun!”

In the works!!!!!!