Analyze This

I have been a Hi-Fructose fan for years. In my early years of college I used to go to the local Barnes and Noble store to pick up the latest issue, which they would release once a month, and pick it apart from cover to cover, as well as hang up many of those images of great surreal contemporary art up on my wall in my dorm room. 

Thanks to Justin Page, an artist and blogger, I am able to keep up with each volume and the take on its contents for that month. For example, his Hi-Fructose: The New Contemporary Art Magazine Vol. 33, it allows anyone who is Hi-Fructose overloaded to see a point of view from an artist.


First, lets look at the layout of his blog. It is simple by Justin using a white and green color scheme that does not wash out, or over do the imagery from the art or the context. It is simple and easy to scan, and read through, the examples of the art that he uses have symmetry and are laid out with precision and used appropriately for the viewer to see without straining their eyes. Plus, you have widgets to other social media sites that are easy to locate, as well as tweets, and other popular posts for the week on the right hand side of the blog, and of course advertising which is usually there for exchange of your use of a platform.

Second, what is Laughing Squid? Laughing Squid is a blog host that showcases a daily variety of unique art, culture and technology from around the world. They are a cloud-based web hosting service with a particular focus on WordPress hosting. Laughing Squid was created in 1995 by Scott Beale and as Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the blog he has a great crew working with him as bloggers.

Third, Justin Page does a great job of getting the Hi-Fructose nerd something to look forward to by adding word from the Hi-Fructose headquarters about what is coming up in volume 33, as well as giving names of the artists depicted in his blog. Although his blog is short and sweet, it does the effect it is created for, to get you interested and into the magazine Hi-Fructose, as well as give you a behind the scenes scoop that many magazines are unable to dish out to their readers and fans.

The only thing I would change about this blog in particular is the fact that it is so short. I would have tried to have given a more lucrative opinion about the up-and-coming magazine rather than just give a quote from Hi-Fructose and show some great art. Other than that, I think the layout and the insert alone are great and strong pieces to this blog puzzle, because a lot of people just scan over to see what is expected mostly. I appreciate this blog for giving me a heads up on the next great volume of the Hi-Fructose Magazine! 

Joe Paterno: Staying Alive Through Social Media

On January 22, 2012 Joe Paterno gave up the good fight and decided to move on and coach the angels in a brand new league. 

Joe Paterno, a husband, a father of five, a former football player, and the Coach of Penn Sate. When you think of Joe Paterno what do you think of the most? What will Paterno be remembered for? Paterno was a small man in stature, with a giant resounding personality, and a smile that is only a fragment of a strong and powerful man within that small stature, who changed lives across America through a common ground such as football.

Paterno sat at the dinner table with many on Thanksgiving, as well as opened presence with several around America on Christmas. Through coaching and football as a forever strong and growing past time, Paterno is sure to live on and on thanks to social media and the ability to record games as well as have playbacks of those wonderful plays the Penn State team dished out on the football field.

Along with Penn State fans there is a family who will forever hold the Paterno torch and keep his memory flowing both in the sports world and within their own lives on a day-to-day basis. Some may never understand just how important sports are to America and around the world. 

I know from my point-of-view that my coach during my high school years was a huge inspiration just like Joe Paterno is and will forever be in the lives of the Paterno family and his Penn State players, students, fans, and rivals.

Amber Deedledee

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Joe Paterno will forever be remembered through Social Media. His life will carry on and on in loops played throughout the world in memory of his great coaching techniques but also his giant resounding personality.

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The world will never be the same.

In the 1970's the first email surfaced thanks to computer engineers seeking a way to send data from one computer to another, trying to make life magical and easier, with cyber mail particles traveling through space and landing into your computer database. 

Then in 2002 Social Media was brought to life thanks to Myspace, Facebook (my Facebook), Twitter (my new attempt at Twitter, check it), Pinterest (my attempt at Pinterest), Foursquare and the social media chain goes on and on in the gigabyte world.

Snail mail is no longer seen as the only way to communicate to your sweetheart or sending documents to another client or co-worker to sign and send back. Weeks turn into a few minutes thanks to internet, social media, phone apps, text messaging, e-mails, fax, and my personal favorite Google Docs. 

Along with these massive changes you have technology and devices trying to catch up with the internet, you have Comcast, At&t, Time Warner, Windstream, Bell South, Alltel, and loads of other service providers trying to make a way in the virtual world to create both quick, easy, and accurate access to the net, along with all its many accessories known as mobile apps on mobile devices, video search engines like YouTube, photo sharing sites such as photobucket and flickr, widgets on blogs and other websites to make it quick to get what you want whenever you want it. I could keep going with all the new ideas popping up around every millisecond, but you get the idea.

So, with mobile apps, you have the world at your fingertips that can call, view, scan, copy, take pictures, ask you questions on what to remember and remind you about later, or what to have for diner, and who is hot in the news, as well as something as simple as Doctor on Demand. With Doctor on Demand you can connect within minutes to a real live breathing physician face-to-face to help diagnosis you or answer any questions you may have without even having to leave the comforts of your own home.

The world is ever growing and ever changing and all we can do is try to understand all the possibilities, and we are able to do that through these apps, search engines, and emails and so forth. Widgets to give someone a quick overview of what they can access is seconds, social media by allowing us to view, watch, and follow others with the same interests or quick and instant messaging, and mobile apps for on the go people around the world with on the go attitudes.