AMAZING APPROPRIATION

I totally forgot about how much I love this video. It's old, but absolutly amazing. It's a good thing to watch if you are (like me) dying with all your finalswork.

And while you're watching it, you can ponder how it's illegal (both the 4 Non-Blondes song AND the He-Man footage) and think about how the author "queered up" He-man.

This video is the reason I think copyright laws should be abolished, because the world would be a little less bright without this brilliant star.

I just got my take home mid-term for my other media studies class and I had to share it with you. The first half of the mid-term is pretty typical. Upon selecting a scene from a current TV show, you have to write a 2-3 page essay imagining what it would be like if you were seeing that scene 40 years ago and what would be controversial or groundbreaking about it.

The second half of the mid-term is a little more interesting. We have to watch a solid hour of TV and write down every ad that we see during the commercial breaks while taking brief notes about what the ad is selling, who is represented in the ad etc. Then we have to organize this list of ads into groups based on the product i.e. beer, cars etc. and then we have to organize the list into subgroups based on what is being represented in the ad and who is the target audience.