Banksy

Whenever I see street art around the city I love looking at them.  Art has always been somewhat of a secret passion that I wish I had.  Being able to draw and create beautiful art is something that will last you a life time.  Although I am so surrounded by sports, I only get to enjoy it up to a certain age...or when my hip blows out :/....so honestly I'm pretty jealous of artist that could just anything that comes to mind.  When I see Banksy's art I am absolutely amazed by his talents. All his art is so modern and cool and would honestly put up all his art work in my room if I could.  It gets alil extreme, but his art is a true masterpiece.  When that art collector in the film said she has art from the most famous artists of all time, and now Banksy...that's saying something.  Bansky also expresses he does it all for the love, not the money, and it truly shows.  I think street art like this should be allowed. I think if I owned a business and had his painting on the side, it would attract more people! Let him do his thing!

our media

In class this week we talked about if ads are too pornographic.  Even though I am a guy I think that a lot of ads are getting way too revealing.  They would be ok if only people 18 and older see them but they are being exposed to young children!  I believe this gives them the wrong perception of what life is really like.  And also gives off too much sexual images.  For me these ads are fine, like I can deal with it, but I wouldn't want my kid under 10 years old to see these images.  And I think that more and more into the future the worse it's gonna get.  I hope that especially the bigger companies decide to change their ways of advertising for our children's sake as dorky as it sounds. But I really think this needs to be done...sorry guys

WE ALL DO IT

Unfortunately, I wasn't there the first day of last week due to the flu, but I heard we were talking about stereotyping.  I always think it's funny when someone says they never stereotype because we do it alllll the time even without noticing.  I myself say that I don't but I'm pretty sure I do.  Even though I'm not racist at all I probably stereotype towards blacks and asians the most.  Like if I'm watching a sporting event and watch a top play I'll go "O OF COURSE HE'S BLACK!" as a joke but hey that's very much stereotyping.  Or thinking a team is really good just because they have a lot of black players.  And for example for Asians whenever I see one driving something kinda triggers my brain to watch out, since they're such stereotypical bad drivers.  Obviously that's not the case for all of them, but you can't stop yourself from thinking that because of what the media always portrays them as being.  I would like to say again I am not racist! Just a typical stereotyper that we all tend to do!