Author: Lior Press

I love photography. It’s a hobby of mine that I really wish I had more time to express myself through. Since I don’t have time to take my own pictures and capture moments, I love looking at others photos.

I find a different aspect of a story being told through photography. They don’t have to have words on the screen to say so much. On my own personal tumblr, I follow a lot of photography or artistic graphic design blogs.

After searching through wordpress blogs, I found this

First and foremost, I love the simplicity of this blog. The simple background and color scheme allowed for the pictures that they did feature to stand out. I also like the font they chose because it gave their blog a little more character.

Because the purpose of this blog is to show and highlight pictures, the simply layout works and I believe is most appropriate. Though it might not be the main focus of my blog, I love it for this one.

Since I wanted to write a psuedo-buzzfeed article I decided that I had to start with the basics. First, I decided that I was going to use tumblr as my blog site of choice so I can recreate this project. I learned how add a picture which was pretty self explanatory.

Then, I moved on how to make GIFS. The Gif will bring the humour to my article is a more visually appealing way, therefore I focused alot on this part. I found a website that can create GIFs for you but they all were bad quality and you couldn’t add text.  Therefore, I decided to check out the photoshop aspect of creating gifs.

Steps:

1) Open up photoshop

2) Upload your video by going to file > import > video frames to layer

3) Go to the parts of the video that you want to show, hold down the shift key while moving the slider then click ok.

4) Go to window > animation. ** make sure youre on animation frames

5) delete that parts you dont want by clicking the frames by clicking the rubbish icon below

6) change the size of your gif by going to image > image size

7) type whatever you want for your text

8) then click file > save for web and devices

I like the photoshop because you can alter your gif the most. Although it might be more time consuming, it gives you a more creative space.

** the gif below is used through a gif maker because I didnt have access to photoshop when writing this post.

As one of my main routes of entertainment, I believe using Buzzfeed.com as an inspiration will make my new media project fabulous.  I can incorporate images and gifs as a way to mock some of the ridiculous advice that Cosmo gives their readers. Be prepared for something crazy and the fact that it will be out of contest will be even weirder…

Preview: “Sprinkle a little pepper under his nose right before he climaxes. Sneezing can feel similar to an orgasm and amplify the feel-good effects.”

Similar to how i’m writing this blog post, I literally just type everything out. Obviously I make sure that I know what I’m writing about and have a sense of where I want to go with my paper, but other than that it is just a free write that hopefully goes somewhere. Once I feel like I can’t do anything else with that particular paper, I save it and close it. Boom.

I wait about 24 hrs before coming to look at it again. It is at this point where I start to read it again (and correct any grammatical errors) and make sure that I am consistent with my argument. If  I am not, I adjust my argument or my evidence.

This nonsensical and word vomit way of writing help me write through any paper. I used to suffer with writers block when I would think too much about something. That is why I just make sure I have a draft full of vomit (no, not literally) and clean up the mess after.

Honestly, I’ll probably do revise that second draft one more time just to make sure that I’m fully satisfied.

Take a look around you. Through the recent magazine articles, advertorials, TV commercials, movies, even blog articles such as buzzfeed. What is one thing you notice?

Well the funny thing is, maybe you didn’t. Maybe you haven’t realized the extent to which females on many media outlets are being overtly objectified and sexualized yet this seems to be all okay because of one little term: Lad Masculinity.

What is lad masculinity? Allow me to enlighten you. Lad masculinity is the idea that men are allowed to love and objectify women because they are not sexist. Hmm.. lets think about that a little more closely. So technically you are saying that because you are not discriminating against women, you are allowed to drool upon the half naked pictures or body part highlighted images of women. Don’t get me wrong, I am not some crazy feminist who is anti-male and refuses to shave her legs because that is what I believe society expects me to do. No, I definitely respect women who wear little tight dresses and rock it. Hell, I feel empowered when I’m feeling sexy with maybe a little to much leg showing. But to what extent is ideology okay and when does it become exploitation?

It seems that our current society is being accustomed to seeing advertisements and different media outlets that continuously objectify women that we become desensitized to the idea of sexuality. We are unaware of all that goes on around us because it is just so common.

My past paper that I wrote for my comm101 class consisted of looking at a Cosmopolitan magazine and a Maxim magazine and applying the idea of enlightened sexism and lad masculinity. Though I learned a lot, I want to take it one step further. To what extent is this okay? When does the idea of objectifying women go past the idea of lad masculinity and turn into exploitation? My new research will focus on just that. Additionally, I want to write this in a more informal blog post. I believe that I can apply this ideology a lot to my real life and I want to incorporate the ideals of my fellow college classmates on how they view this issue and really whether it is an issue for them.

This will be raw. This will be real. This might even become epic.