Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Social Media Revolution


I remember when I first came to NCC and in one class we had to present about different topics. Ironically, my group had to do a presentation about New Media. While I was looking around the internet for research, I came about this video talking about statistics that new media was going to bring onto us in the future. Even though this video is 6 years old, it's still shocking at what this video shows about the world and there's also a new version (2014). What do you guys think of these vids?







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Original Horror Movies

I'm sure everyone's heard of The Ring (and it's sequels), One Missed Call, etc. but I don't think many of us have seen the original movies and know where they've came from. Well to burst your bubble, The Ring (American Version) isn't where it started first. It started in Japan where it was a novel and then became the hit series of movies called Ringu, Ringu 2, Rasen, Sadako 3D,etc. The Japanese version I have to admit, made me not sleep for days on end unlike the American remake. Horror movies these days in the US seem to not scare people much anymore like the old days and I'm talking like 70's/80's horror movies. Yes, there are some that have been scream and cover your eyes worthy, but let's face it, the premise of horror movies just seem to be the same over and over again. Now, if you really want some horror movies to watch and I mean "Holy S***!" cover your eyes or scream worthy ones, then you should definitely watch the originals of the Ring and such. If you don't believe me that the original Ringu is so good, just look at the reviews. A 97% rating (good) on Rotten Tomatoes vs a 71% for the American remake of The Ring. I'll stop here from babbling on and let you guys determine if you like the trailers of all the original horror movies that Japan and Korea have done:


The Ringu


The Ringu 2


Ju-On:



One Missed Call:





One Missed Call 2:




Tomie:





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Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Cyberbullying-Will It End or Not?

The new form of bullying in this day and age isn't going to stop anytime soon. Honestly, it's beyond devastating to see kids not only see their bullies in school, but now also online. The torment never ends for them and while schools have adopted this zero tolerance policy towards online bullying, there's no way the school can monitor every movement by the so-called ''bully''. I feel like it's beyond frustrating that no one wants to set an example to stop someone from bullying. I've seen examples of schools setting up a ''No Bully'' club to help set awareness to kids and how bullying takes place. But besides possibly at the beginning of school and when a story goes viral about a teen taking their lives from bullying, when are we really exposed and challenged to help change the actions of bullies.

I was bullied in grade school mostly and there were days I wanted it to stop and yeah, I'll admit there were days I'd cry myself to sleep and not tell my mom because I didn't want her to know. But the thing is, I had no clue where to begin and who to ask for help. And it was mostly because I was too afraid to ask for help. Eventually things got better and now I look back on the days I was bullied and honestly those situations have made me a stronger person. There's no day that if I see someone being bullied and needed help, I will come to their rescue and help stop the tormentor. We need more people to stand up and tell the person being bullied that they're beautiful and they shouldn't stop being who they are. To the bullies, we need to tell them that it's not right, that their actions and words cause scars physically and mentally forever in the victim's mind and that's not right. EVER.



''Nobody can hurt me without my permission''

                                                      -Gandi




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Sunday, May 4, 2014

Vines- Funny or Not?


Going off of Professor Macek's previous post about the ever so popular Vine and why it has become popular. It first started in January 2013 when Twitter introduced the now popular app called ''Vine''. Vine let's users create a 6 second video that could be funny or not. But we all know some people that become instantly popular through their hilarious Vine vids. 
We've all had our fair share of hilarious vines, but finding the right one is what brings popularity to Vine. Don't get me wrong, I love vines, but one con of watching a vine and then closing your browser is then searching for the vine you watched because we all know that if it's a hugely popular Vine, the post that we found it on whether it was Twitter or Tumblr, will be gone once the page is refreshed. One other con of Vine is that it doesn't allow you to share your videos to Facebook which could possibly harm Vine in the future. But in reality, since it is owned by Twitter and Twitter is a rival of Facebook, who would want to combine with your rival just to get more views from a "new" audience? Definitely not me if I was Twitter. Also, there has been rumors of Facebook teaming up with Instagram to bring a 10 second video platform, but I don't think it will be popular as Vine has become now.




Here are some of the Vines I've found hilarious over time
Curse of the calculator / Vine By: Thomas Sanders
 
 

Curse of the calculator by Thomas Sanders
 


When Someone Doesn't Return Your Pen or Pencil by Lele Pons
 


When You Expect Someone to say Sorry, but They Don't by Max Jr.

When you expect someone to say sorry but they don’t - See more at: http://vinesnow.com/page/7#sthash.E9LnxNyd.dpuf

Curse of the calculator / Vine By: Thomas Sanders

Curse of the calculator / Vine By: Thomas Sanders
Curse of the calculator / Vine By: Thomas Sanders
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