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Tag Archives: perception
Augmented Reality from GM
Augment the Reality for your Windshield
GM seems to be gaining back market share from Toyota and their constant bad press about their runaway vehicles, as GM is testing augmented reality in windshields; essentially GM has teamed up with Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Southern California to test out this new design. Peep the video below, something for the Nerbans.
Funny Double Entendre, pt 2
Funny Double Entendre’s, pt 2
All about ambiguity
Part 2 of the ‘Funny Double Entendre’ series (check pt.1 here), this time these are some funny newspaper headlines that are in a desperate need for an edit. The main literal problem with these headlines is the ambiguity in some of the word(s) – without the proper context, the headlines have multiple meanings.
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Include Your Children When Baking Cookies
– the ambiguity lies in whether we put our children in the oven with the cookies, sounds like circa 1940’s Nazi Germany
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Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Experts Say
– really? Could the fact that jet crashed already lead one to a conclusion that ‘something went wrong?’
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Drunks Get Nine Months in Violin Case
– ‘Nine Months’ need to be explained – are the drunks put inside the violin case for a pregnancy term?
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If Strike Isn’t Settled Quickly, It May Last a While
– Captain Obvious to the rescue!
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Couple Slain; Police Suspect Homicide
– newspaper headlines should be ran by at least three different copy editors
Buy Yourself a Personality: Gucci
Buy Yourself a Personality: Gucci
Another installment in the series of ‘Buying Yourself a Personality’, which is a quick way for one to absorb a personality via the purchase of certain items; in this series, we focus on the popular high-end luxury brand Gucci. Essentially, Gucci is a ridiculously priced luxury fashion line that makes everything from handbags, purses, suits, pants, and other items. Its distinctive pattern is world renowned and easy to recognize – which has been problematic for Gucci as now it has to deal with bootlegging and the black market of its products. It is estimated that the bootlegging of Gucci nets close to $500 million dollars annually. Gucci has a crack team of lawyers to pursue the bootleggers, but they are far outnumbered.
Anyhow, it is important to note that Gucci is only found in high-end retail stores – so if you are buying a Gucci shirt at the local swap meet or flea market, and you are paying close to a $100 for it, you are being ripped off. Or, you are buying it to fill a need to be seen as ‘wealthy’ and/or one with a high SES. You are doing it to seem ‘cool’, to fill some void. But, you got to realize that this is not the answer – spend your money wisely, please. Especially to my black people who go to some crazy and extraodinary lengths to don Gucci attire. Some even are so crazy with it that they outfit their whole vehicle with Gucci lining and upholstery. I guess when you have some money, no financial planner, you can really do some stupid things – primarily the things that do nothing to raise the value in your assets. With that said, here are some ridiculous Gucci designs.
Some people will pay hundreds, even thousands of dollars for just the Gucci fabric – which people, is just a flipping pattern! But, maybe I shouldn’t get all ‘bent out of shape’, as they are buying more than just a cheap fabric made in China, lol.
Masta Ace True Hip-Hop Stories: The Symphony
Rappers and their Ego
How an inflated ego opened the door for a new jack MC in ’88 called Masta Ace
Rappers must have the biggest ego problem of all entertainers, yes many of your favorite actors/actresses are known to be major pricks and bitches, but I would think that rappers take the cake in the a-hole department. With the self-boasting, self-accolade, heavy bravado lyrics, rappers really believe that they are that ‘sh*t’; and treat others like they are their minions and peasants.
Anyhow, this story just goes to show how one’s ego can have a heavy cost.
MC Shan
Masta Ace
Though, MC Shan fell off in the 90’s, and Masta Ace remained relevant in the underground scene, both MC’s remain respectable rappers in hip-hop.
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Art imitating Life
Art imitating Life
How TV can learn from the social media realm
The Life Event
The wedding of Jill Peterson and Kevin Heinz starts with a quality entrance dance to Chris Brown’s Forever…yeah, forever. It took place at a Church in Saint Paul, Minnesota.
The Art
This scene comes from Season 6 of the U.S. version of the Office show; as they make no attempts to deny the idea for this wedding dance sequence as they reference the popular Youtube clip that has over 2 million views, and I am sure that many more views of the real wedding were spawned since the airing of this episode.
I have to give The Office kudos for having the courage to take ideas from the social media world, which in turn increases the popularity of the show online and offline.
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The DJ
Designed by Papen
The DJ
Evolution of the DJ: the Playlist DJ
Wikipedia says
“a disc jockey (also known as disk jockey, DJ or deejay) is a person who selects and plays recorded music for an audience. Originally, disk referred to phonograph records, while disc referred to the Compact Disc, and has become the more common spelling. Today, the term includes all forms of music playback, no matter the source”
DJ’s today are not like the one’s we grew up to via real life and media; with programs like Virtual DJ, a heavy mp3 library, and a Macbook, anybody can create a playlist from home, setup the cues, and the program will automatically blend and match BPM’s. The hip-hop purists (the hip-hop snobs) frown down upon this new breed of the DJ, but the partygoer doesn’t really care – as their main concern is getting in that last drink before the bar stops serving liquor.
Now, on to the DJ Art …
Designed by frenzyy
Designed by Yurai the photographer
Designed by prisonsuit-rabbitman
Designed by balomc
Designed by Saint Chase
Whatever type of DJ you may be, just keep one thing in mind – move the crowd. Don’t play for the minority, play for the majority.
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Women in Mainstream Film
Women in Mainstream Film
Women’s studies mash up from Brett Dan n Jacob on Vimeo.
I thought these guys did a pretty good job in identifying gender stereotypes in popular films. Kudos, but they didn’t really offer a solution, but c’est la vie. A good watch rather than watching some gangsta try to shoot up Youtube.
Oxymoronic
Oxymoronic
Conflicting spatial memory
An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory terms. Sometimes it is done inadvertently or deliberately to be condescending, funny, and/or satiricial. Either way, there are countless examples of oxymorons that will be sure to elicit a reaction out of you. Enjoy:
Good grief
– Grief is never good, always a thorn in your a–
Act naturally
– by definition ‘acting’ is not a ‘natural’ behavior.
Small crowd
– by definition, a crowd can not be ‘small’
Peace force
– How can war ever bring ‘peace’? Using force to bring about peace is just a contrast of ideals.
Pretty ugly
– How can one be visually stunning yet horrific at the same time?
Tight slacks
– I swear that many of the hip-hop hipsters are on this tip now …
Synthetic natural gas
– anything synthetic is not natural
Passive aggression
– something we do all the time; to coincide with societal norms
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Visually Fall
Visually Fall
The majestic transitional season
Autumn (also known as Fall in North American English) is one of the four temperate seasons. Autumn marks the transition from summer into winter, usually in late March (southern hemisphere) or late September (northern hemisphere) when the arrival of night becomes noticeably earlier. Personally, I dig the fall because of the change in temperature; moving away from the extreme summer – but I don’t like the move towards the extreme cold (especially up here). Anyhow, here are some visual stimuli for your retina:
By MJ Agiellicz
By iunewind
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The Peter Principle
Rewarding Incompetence
The Peter Principle – explains a lot
When I first heard about the Peter Principle I felt a couple of things; first, this explains a lot – that’s it. Sorry for saying a ‘couple of things’; as I guess the first explanation explains so much situations and scenarios that we all can relate to. The Peter Principle is a special case of a ubiquitous observation: anything that works will be used in progressively more challenging applications until it fails. This is “The Generalized Peter Principle.” It was observed by Dr. William R. Corcoran and he found that in an organizational structure, the Peter Principle’s practical application allows assessment of the potential of an employee for a promotion based on performance in the current job; i.e., members of a hierarchical organization eventually are promoted to their highest level of competence, after which further promotion raises them to incompetence. That level is the employee’s “level of incompetence” where the employee has no chance of further promotion, thus reaching his or her career’s ceiling in an organization.
The employee’s incompetence is not necessarily exposed as a result of the higher-ranking position being more difficult — simply, that job is different from the job in which the employee previously excelled, and thus requires different work skills, which the employee may not possess. For example, a factory worker’s excellence in his job can earn him promotion to manager, at which point the skills that earned him his promotion no longer apply to his job.
How to resolve the Peter Principle:
– employees who are dedicated to their current jobs should not be promoted for their efforts for which they might, instead, receive a pay increase.
– employees might be promoted only after being sufficiently trained to the new position. This places the burden of discovering individuals with poor managerial capabilities before (as opposed to after) they are promoted.
I don’t know about you, but this explains a lot and allows me to understand the chaos, dumb, asinine logic that exists in the corporate/government world.
Some Key Examples of the Peter Principle (Fiction & Non-Fiction):
Former FEMA Director Michael Brown
Former FEMA director Michael Brown was called to testify before Congress for the botched relief operation in New Orleans (Hurricane Katrina 2005).
George W. Bush
Self-explanatory for most
Michael Scott
– The Office star, and lovable incompetent boss that represents so many of our bosses
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Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Peter_Principle