Sunday, October 24, 2010

Cartoons

I have not yet decided what my argument is going to be about, so I thought I'd post about an interesting video I saw on TED. This piece made a very interesting point about the usage of political cartoons. I always knew that political cartoons could be used to slightly influence people in their chooses and decisions, but I never knew that a cartoon could hold so much power. Such as the power to make people riot in the street, like when the Mohammad cartoon was published. Patrick Chappatte made good points in noting how political cartoons could be used for both the good and bad of a nation.


Sunday, October 3, 2010

Ghost Caught on Video

With all the ghost sightings and ghost hunting videos, it is almost relieving to see a spoof video such as this one. Videos dealing with ghost's are currently all the rage and filling up the web. There is even a whole plethora of T.V. shows that are everywhere, which are ranging from hunting, sightings, myths, and legends all concerning ghost. To see a video that takes these ghost frenzied videos, that some could say are taken way to seriously, and makes a spoof about how ridiculous these videos really are is kind of relieving. I found this video to make a nice point and to be a funny watch, and it was pretty great to hear the narrator do his best Solid Snake impression.