Week 1: Media Autobiography

Here is a list of the 8 types of media that we learned this week in order of importance, according to me:

Books
-I try to read everyday for leisure, that usually doesn't happen when I am enrolled in school.
-I am reading The Da Vinci Code, it is a fantastic book.
-One of my goals in life is to make enough money to afford a house in which I can keep a library
-Along with my collection of 500 or so vintage books passed on from my grandfather [he was a Unitarian minister, he left behind THE BEST selection of books ever] and my old high school library [when they remodeled they stocked up with all new books too] I spend about 50 to 100 dollars a week on new and used books from used bookstores and Amazon.com.

Magazines
-I have 2 magazine subscriptions, National Geographic and Nylon.
-I am a photojournalism major, nature magazines like NG, fashion and culture magazines like Nylon, and travel magazines like NG's Traveller magazine are what made me want to pursue photojournalism as a career.
-The only reason magazines are second on my list is because I feel that my generation is getting lazy, they need to start reading more, since when did 200 pages in a row become too time consuming? This media A.D.D. excuse that our textbook author offers is very true, but since when could people not overcome A.D.D.? Last time I checked, it was completely possible.

Recordings
-Music is very important to me, my first CD was Alanis Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill."
-At this moment in time I have 21.61 GB of music in my iTunes alone.
-I hate to say it but I am the type of person who will judge someone based on their musical preference, not in a musical elitist way, but because I believe that taste in music can say a lot about someones personality.

Newspapers
-Daily newspapers are very important to me because it seems like they are going extinct even though everybody I know and love still reads them every single day.
-The layout, the immediacy, the text, the length, the cartoons, the columns, the ads, everything about a newspaper comes together so beautifully.
-I cant stand when something so aesthetically pleasing becomes yet another member of the cultural endangered species list, and that's why newspapers are number 4 on my list.

Internet
-I hate myself for putting the Internet so high in my list but no one can escape the importance and convenience of it.
-I have a blog, a myspace, like 10 emails, a facebook, online banking, flickr, twitter, you name it.
-When I was 7 I was dancing around in the living room to my favorite TV show. I fell down and broke my wrist. My family had not heard me, or chose to ignore me screaming because they were all huddled around our new personal computer, complete with- INTERNET.
-I made it to the hospital 2 hours after I broke my wrist.
-Maybe I'm just bitter.

Movies
-I am a huge film buff too but movies have always been more of an art form to me than a form of media, that is not to say that I don't consider music, magazines, and newspapers art however.
-If I let myself view movies as media more than art, I would never watch a movie again. I would be so agitated by the over the top Michael Bay and James Cameron advertising that I would boycott movies for the rest of my life. The product placement, the big name celebrities, the prices of the popcorn at the movie theater, these are all aspects of movies that I loathe.

Radio
-I don't listen to it, I don't see the point.
-It's really restricting. Why would I wait to listen to a good song when I can Grab my iPod? Why wait for a talk show when I can read about a hot topic in the paper, a magazine, or online with the touch of my index finger?
-Think about this too, how much alone time do you really get everyday? I love to drive with my windows down and let myself think without the pressure of conversation or unintelligible background noise.

Television
-The 20th anniversary episode of The Simpsons is on right now, my parents are watching it, do I care? No.
-Anything worth seeing on TV is worth seeing again and again and again, that's why I have a Planet Earth and Metalocalypse seasons 1 and 2 on DVD.
-Does that still count as TV? It probably does, but I don't have cable in my room so I am sticking with my original argument.


♥ Kelsey