Spacedmonkey

I would like to take a minute to remember those who died on 9/11. My thought are with the families.

I wrote a post a while back about a research paper I did for A-level media studies. I discussed some of the interesting research matterials I found when writting the paper. I thought that it could be interesting to upload a draft of the essay I found. It is a draft, I haven’t read through it myself, so in place it may be hard to read. If the title of the essay doesn’t interesting you, I advice you not to read it. I hope you enjoy it, and if you have any thoughts, please comment. If you enjoyed this, please check out the blog.
What is the effect of MTV on music promotion and music artist representation?

With the inception of MTV in 1977 as small TV network, it has now grown into a multi-national, multi-billion pound global machine. The effect of the creation of MTV on television, the music industry and the world, is a reflects of active audience of the teenager music fan of the early 80s. At the beginning, many artists used the new music platform to promote their music on an international level and continue to this day. This new platform allowed music artists to promote on a mass scale that made never been seen before. But unlike before the artist would judged on the mainly on the musicality of their song (even though this it is still a factor) or the style of the artist playing live but on the visual shown in their music video. Marketing the video became key because videos were the main focus of MTV because it was easy to show them and quickly becoming a leading source of new music. My hypotheses is that given though MTV has done much good to the music industry as a whole, it?s net effects has been a negative one. In this essay I will descise the negative effect on audiences and artists.

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I was sorting through some old stuff the other day and came across this. Okay that is a lie but what if it was true. This is another example of the wonders of the internet, allowing you to waste your time better and faster. Says-it’s Cassette Generator allows you create a visual tape with your own text. It allows you to customize the top three lines with your own text. So if your not part of the MP3 age, give it ago and see what you can make.

I also made this one, I don’t think anyone else but me and a few others will get the joke.

On my search through the internet I find many things. I spend lots of time on Youtube, most of the time it is a waste. Most of the YouTube is full of jackasses in front of their computer singing along to some 90’s pop like backstreet boys. But sometime you find something that is worth it. You find a clip of a comedy club or a unknown band. This blog is about the later, a great unknown band. The band is called, Ok Go. The video is extremly cool and it is inpressive that is all seems to have been done in real time. It is basically four guys on treadmills dancing around.
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I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don’t even invite me.

We have all seen the Matrix. The classic price of film that it is. But with all the amazing stunts and cool fight scenes came a very high price. Here they can see a satire of taken Matrix in Ping Pong. With this video we can accept that the Japanese have much imagination. It shows that some people have lots of time on their hands. But it is cool some people are doing it the old fashioned way. This must have taken a little ammount of money to setup and lots of time, which I like. Impressive and very funny.
Watch it
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