"What's your plan, man?" is what I would love to ask Lebron James. No I don't follow basketball and I don't like the sport anyway. Sure I'll play with some buddies or shoot hoops and just goof off, but I don't care for the sport nor it's athletes. Case in point- Lebron's most recent Nike Ad.
I was so confused at this Ad. What is the angle he wants to hit?
Stick his nose higher into the air and snuff more fans?
Or is it a shot at all his haters (the fans of his former team- Cleveland Cavaliers).
Or is it his sick way of trying to please the public?
Or is it him just being a stuck up over-paid athlete who needs an ego boost?
It was a very poorly done Ad in my view.
He continually asks "What should I do?" as if to show " Ya, I ll listen to your comments but really, this is just a sarcastic remark and I don't give a s**t what you say. I am me . Love it or lump it". That's what I get out of this Ad. But, is that supposed to be the message?
Honestly, Nike has made some sick commercials in the past that have really got my attention in a great way. To this commercials credit, the screen play was extraordinary and was the only thing I liked about it.
But maybe since this is basketball, it doesn't connect properly to me. Nonetheless, no one should be left confused by the wrong reasons by an Ad. Sometimes confusion is good and that's the goal. My gut tells me confusion wasn't the goal here...so what was it?
Definitely an Ally-""OOOOPS"" eh Terry and Deaner....
Have you ever woke up to the feeling of "Thomas the Tank Engine" choo-chooing through your skull? Or you find yourself over tired still and you have no energy? How about you just don't feel like rolling your lazy butt out of the warm confines of your bed?
I have the remedy for you.
It doesn't come in a flashy can, it's not a pill and you most definitely don't eat it.
It's called the "Second Sleep Scheme".
To explain it, it's more less a way to get "second" wind. You wake yourself up earlier than you need to when you know you will feel like crap in the morning or when ever. (i.e hangover or sickness). For me, when I wake up feeling like I went 3 1/2 rounds with a Wachootoo Witch doctor with Cinder blocks on his hands I know my "engine" will take some time to warm up . When I hit that alarm to shut it off, I go back into my sleep. Then when my real alarm goes off, I wake up feeling a million times better.
I wish I could explain the science behind it but the official test results aren't in until next month. Even if it is for a general sickness. Try it out. Wake up earlier than you need to, go back to sleep and then when you awake at the time you need to, you will feel a lot better.
Maybe it is just me that this scheme applies to, but give it a go.
Sleep tight Terry and Deaner...
Of all the moaning and groaning you here today about our planet's cities, it's usually about expansion. The need to grow your city by another cookie-cutter subdivision or adding the o-so-necessary Wal-Mart. How about we stop thinking about the new and think of the old for a moment. Maybe think about some of the forgotten cities or areas and not worry about pushing the city limit sign.
I was watching a show called "Destination Truth" online this afternoon and came across one of the shows on Prypiat. It is the abandoned city in the Ukraine from the Chernobyl accident. Chernobyl was a nuclear power plant that had a reactor blow and contaminate a 30 km radius with toxic radiation. The town's folk were evacuated and given new homes in new towns. To this day, the town remains a Ghost Town
I began searching to see if there are any other are any other towns or areas in this world similar to Pypriat.
Wow. There is a list dedicated to this!
Some of these pictures are stunning. Absolutely unreal. From rotting buildings stuck in time to children's toys long forgotten by their previous owners these towns seem to all have a unique but yet unified theme. Abandonment. These images sparked almost an eerieness in them as well. Its tough to imagine we as humans can just pack up and leave an area and totally forget about it. However, a few of these areas had to be deserted for specific reasons that are very understandable but it's crazy that we could do that.
Consider the would be tourist town of SanZhi. It was to be Taiwan's hustle and bustle and bring in thousands of tourists yearly.
But nope.
Strange and abnormal events led to the "pod city" to never be opened.
It now is time's problem. Not ours.
Years from now we will look back at these abandoned wonders and be sorry. Wasted money. Wasted Time. Wasted space.
So, searching this list, I decided before my time expires on this Earth, I want to visit these Ghost Town. I want to feel the seclusion and loneliness those walls and areas have to feel every minute of every day. Just picture yourself in a town all to your self and no one is around. At all. I want to visit these areas. I got to know the feeling a Ghost Town gives you.
Sure....it's possible to get up and leave something (i.e a city), but don't let that thing leave you.
Don't worry ... we'll never abandon you Terry and Deaner....
Well it's been one heck of a ride. All the brochures and handbooks on college life could never of prepared me for the roller coaster I have been on thus far. From meeting some amazing new buddies and awesome girls to already making memories to last a lifetime... college is everything I could ask for and more.
My course up to this date is super. Evey aspect of it makes my mind work in ways I love. It makes me strive to be creative yet it keeps me grounded giving me solid guidelines to follow. With all my classes, it is also teaching me time management and more discipline. In Gr12 at my high school, I "managed"my time to sign out to skip the afternoon and my discipline was ... well lets just say there was a lack of it. Coming here, I went from being top of the totem pole to the very base again similarly the transition of GR8 to GR 9. This transition in life is totally natural but can overwhelm some students. Not me though, I welcomed it with open arms!!!
Outside the classroom has also been a ball as well. The first few days I, as well as many other new students, had "Bamby Legs". This refers to me being wobbly and unsure of my new surrounding but now, those have disappeared. I have morphed from the "kid from 207 with the blond hair" to "Banana , Lupas or Hat-Trick Swayze". People know me and I know them. I have made so many friends and so many new connections. I am part of a new community and this comfortably has brought me a long way.
Here's to 3 196 800 more seconds and plenty, plenty plenty more!!!!
I was driving along a major road to the grocery store to get me some peach juice. I had the biggest hankering for peach juice so I hopped in my truck and took off. As I began passing cars, a woman passed me on the right and she was crying buckets. She was driving her rusted Miata like a shopping cart running errant across a parking lot. Then, at the following stop lights, the car I was beside had a buddy belting out a techno song while he sang at the top of his lungs. I got to thinking, of all the cars I pass when I'm driving... whats the story going on behind the wheel?
For me, I was just a bored college kid hankering for some sugar water. Whats the other stories going on?
Maybe... a business man late for a meeting while devouring his BLT trying to check his email on his b-berry?
Maybe... single mother racing to her second job to make ends meet. All the while, wondering if lil johnny got home safe from school?
Maybe.. a flustered couple in the middle of a week long argument with no noise but the chatter of the radio?
Maybe... that guy who you let merge ahead of you will hit a car load of inner-city basketball stars . What if you didn't let him merge? What if you were destined to hit them and your act of courtesy altered fate?
I guess what I mean is, what is everyone's story. What if I could somehow "change lanes" and understand one person at one particular moment? Why are they in a rush? Why are they so happy? What if I could do something in a moment different and alter a million years of fate. Some may say everything is already written and were just living a story that's destined to happen anyway... but what if every moment changes things. Maybe the little thing are the most important. Just maybe.
Drive safe Terry and Deaner...
I'm dreary, I'm somewhat half asleep still and I'm just scanning the internet. I'm hunting for an article to help me in another project and BAMMM!!!.. what should pop up? An ad for a new series about something really compelling and completely jaw-dropping.Death by Fire????
His name was Cameron Todd Willingham. He was only 36. He was a husband and a father of 3 daughters. He was killed by lethal injection on February 17, 2004 for a crime he did not commit.
What crime? Murder...
As the ad shows, he apparently set fire to his house killing his 3 daughters inside. He escaped unscathed but was immediately questioned. Everyone thought it was a huge ploy to kill his daughters to hide child abuse. However, he and his wife(who was shopping at the tine of the blaze) stood fast to never ever harming their children. The trial dragged on and on and on, until finally he was incarcerated for life while receiving the death penalty.
Wouldn't you think hearing the screams of your burning children be enough punishment? He had to live through his final days as a human knowing his daughters died and he could do absolutely nothing. I think that is a "penalty" no goof behind a bench or white trash jurors could ever dish out. Then on top of that, his wife turned her back on him while he was in jail. She publicly stated that his innocence plea was a shame.....wow...
Isn't our society "innocent until proven guilty"?....
or is it "guilty until proven innocent"?
Try to look through the smoke and mirrors Terry and Deaner...
Picture this.....
"Who in this class can't live without your cellphone or computer/internet??" Hands shoot up across the room.....
This was the sight in one of my Advertising classes this semester . I was absolutely rattled. Is our Generation that dependent on such technologies that we claim we " can't live without them??" I may be guilty in the fact that I like using them , but I would never say I couldn't live without the two. These technologies aren't my two lungs! C'mon people !
This then got me to thinking. How could I bring to light the fact of our complete and udder dependency on such things? The movie "Super Size Me !" came into my mind. The documentary followed Morgan Spurlock's quest to just live off McDonald's food for a complete month. The outcome was .. well.. I won't play spoiler to anyone who hasn't seen it. Morgan's journey really opened the general publics'' eyes to how much of an influence McDonald's actual has. This movie created many waves and quite the buzz surrounding the topic of fast food in our world.
So, is there a way I could somehow create a "buzz" around the topic of dependency on cell phones and computers/internet?
Yes. Yes there is.
I came up with the idea of locking myself in a room and video tapping/vlogging my actions/thoughts over a month. The room would have one tiny window. One door. In the corner would be a shower and toilet. I would have one desk in the middle with only a computer on it . Nothing else. In my hand would be a cellphone . With it would be its charger and nothing else. I would say I could live in this room for a month using only my cellphone and computer/internet to accommodate my daily needs. Crazy eh?
I would have to phone in for food, order toiletries online somehow and somehow just live with my cellphone and computer/internet. Hey, apparently we can't live without them correct? So how about just having those two things and nothing else. Imagine the world I would have in that "jail cell".
When you think about this, it may sound insane to you. Think harder, is it that insane...or the fact that we think technology is a necessity even more insane. I like to think I could make this project a reality. I would just need a free month and a room for solitary confinement!! Maybe it could be a way to raise funds? Who knows? People still talk about "Super Size Me!" to this day. Maybe I could make this project have the affect that documentary did. That would be awesome.
Terry and Deaner are up to the challenge....are you?
"What's your plan, man?" is what I would love to ask Lebron James. No I don't follow basketball and I don't like the sport anyway. Sure I'll play with some buddies or shoot hoops and just goof off, but I don't care for the sport nor it's athletes. Case in point- Lebron's most recent Nike Ad.
