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omg im da 1st to write after the last class(i feel special lol)

Posted by liltraviesa on July 22, 2008

well rite now im at ma dads house bloggin myhappy butt off i actually got used to typing into this everyday so i guess i kinda missed it lol like i said in mylast blog i was gonnanbe logging in and bloggin 4eva lol well i mean i really miss classses with johns performances and nick having lil discussions with john n steve snd melissa nd jalen and well azll of em they were so fun and they always made my mornin a good one and im totally going back to marwen for the next courses so no doubt ima have fun again well next week im gonna start with freshman orientation which is gonna suck butt snce its gonna b hust like skoo they say uts to get meet ur teachers and classmates but trust me not for the uno high skoo so im totally expecting theworst out of it but hopefully my friends will make up for the most sukiesh prarts of the day welk today im gonna go to some family party which is gonna b ultra borin im so bored rite now im listenin toi music while bloggin it helps me concentrate alot and relax too well my dad is gettn on my last nerves rite now bout bein on the computer sokposably wasting my tim yes rite man he doesnt know it helps me clear my mind and relax and gett all my thoughts out of my head it helps me clear my head and set my thoughts straight bout everything in ma life idk i sometimes wish i could talk to him lik ei talk to ma friends but then  sometimes dont i guess im yused to it used to akways handlin everything on my ownthey say children or teens watevr shouldnt have to but we do its a total lie bout not havin to worry bout things cuz we do anyways wether we like it or not

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i needed to say bye again (lol)

Posted by liltraviesa on July 18, 2008

well for sho today is my last blog enrty you probabyl got tired of me typing soi much into this since mty last one seemes lik my kife story(lol) well i just finished my mickey mouse button and oo does it look so retro and koo cant wait for the exebition to get my shirt and bhtton iu guess theres gnna be stivckers too i didt even know dat untill steve told us well wat can i say other than tha this class was a wonderful experience and well i really enjoyed this class i got tio meet new ppl and well the best thing was that i didnt even feel like i was in school yea it was a class but it didnt feek nothing like school at all so it  ade everything really unstresful and relaxed and i liked that i eveb liked getting up really early to make it on time lol well im really gonna miss steve john and nick they were the forst ppl to actually address me as esmeralda lol i guess it made me feel special lmao (jk) well iu gotta go already n get home im gonna b totally late i hope that me as well as everyone else still logs in becuade one things for sure  i will lol

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EnD Of OuR JoUrNeY as culture spiers! :(

Posted by liltraviesa on July 18, 2008


well my first piece was a poster of tweety. if youve noticed he seems angry or well kinda cranky, wanna know why because he doesnt want marketers to steal teens styles!!!!! the message is pretty clear and understandable. i wanted to use someone who is well known and loved by everyone including the media. so then tweety automatically popped in my head and what is tweety without sylvester! lmao i wanted to make the message self explanatory, funny, and yet understandable by everyone and i think i did suceed in that area. i put sylvester in for a couple of reasons,one was  because tweety mentions him in his message , it would have looked maybe a little to simple and well tweety nd sylvester are well in a way connected like mickeymouse and minnie and like pb & j they like glue. when i was makin this poster and deciding what to do next i kept thinking to myself “wow this class really did teach me somthing that was always right on front of my eyes and i never realized before” if it hadnt been coming to these classes i would have never learned everything i did about how the media has alot to do with the choices we make . like deciding what shirt to buy when you go to the store or like what type of shoes will i buy . it really made me think alot of the everyday decisions i make. the second piece i made well its still in process is a mickey mouse button. i actually had this idea about using mickey mouse for something visual since steve had told us we were gonna  make projects and post them on the web. i guess i thought bout mickey  since well hes known by everyone and loved by everyone .  i mean who doesnt like mickey lol he has been known for the longest nd i doubt he will ever become old enoguh not to love. one day i was browsing on the computer for pictures of mickey and well i found this one that looked rather interesting since this class is called culture spy and i thought i could really use this image and then once steve saw it and said that it was small enough for a button i really put my heart into it (lol ) it realy caught my attention and it was perfect to use. although its still not finished i know its gonna come out great! this class really did impact me in a way that it really made me think bout society and the media and how we see it being advertised we (teens) automatically want it. technically that is very true and i never really realized it untill i walked in this class. i never saw the pattern of marketers teens and then selling it to us . before i honestly thought most of the time that marketers just came up with most of the styles that have been seen to us before i thoghtb they made them upo nd sold it to us but now i realize that they technically stal our styles and sell it back to us and it made me think about this alot and now i think when i do go buy a new pair of shoes or a shirt ill think  twice before doing it im really gonna miss this class and steve and nick and john with his totally koo performances(lol) well i guess this is the end of my journey as an altra fabulous culture spier!

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pretty fun today but im BlAnK (DANCER) InSiDe JoKe 4 NiCk lol

Posted by liltraviesa on July 17, 2008

well today i got here prety early so i checked my myspace n then we kept workin on our projects. i finsihed my tweety and the mickey design for the button. john and nick helped me with the button while nick tried to figure out how to curve the letters john ws basically in the background dancing lol and singing a song to nick well its basically nicks own lil theme song its pretty funny i cracked up (i needed it ive been in a gloomy mood) so im always gonna remeber nick as well hmmmmm the private dancer its so hilaroius u must b thnkin wtfudge ??? wat do i mean well ur gonna have to ask john and nick bout that lol. (ask john to sing it for u!!!) well after johns extrodinary performance we figured out the letters ad everything and i finaally finished it! yay! john ad steve said it was better to trace so i traced mickey out like five times cuz i didnt like the others so when i finally decided on one john went to go scan it and now im waiting till john gets back to c what i do next.. i really like these classes and i cant belive we only have today and tomorrow ima really miss this culture spying i learned slot of things even though today im not really in a very happy mood soimetimes this class makes my mornings really good and unexpected. i hope even after these classes i still log in as well as everyone else to write my thougts bout my everyday life as a culture spier watching out for  marketers!  i just finished coloring in mickey mouse so tomorrow ill be completely finished with everything unfortunately tomorrow is my last class which  i totally  hate well u cant wait for tomorrow imma miss everyone (tear, tear)  this day i walked in all gloomy and sad and im leavin happy and very amused lol cant wait fo tomprrw

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tHey BorRoWeD mY nIKe ShOeS LOL finished with tweety poster yay me !

Posted by liltraviesa on July 16, 2008

well today i got here just in time. we kept working on our projects today and  started with my tweety poster (it looks so fabulous lol) and i started on my mickey mouse poster which is comin iut pretty good actually. oh yeea and melissa and her group wrre makin a video bout nike shoes and guess wat i had my nikes on today so i let them borrow them… they were makin my shoes talk and jalene started singin well a lil theme somg for the video which was so funny. i had alot of fun today and im gonna miss our last class i was gettin used to comin here it diesnt even remind me of skool and then again its a class thats wha i like it doesnt feel nothin like school at all

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FiNiShEd WiT tHe TaRgEt MaN ! lol

Posted by liltraviesa on July 14, 2008

well today i was pretty much early i got her like at nine thirty (first time eva)

we kept on workin wit our projects and im hepin with the shirt and posters so its pretty koo.

first i was workin with nick john n keith helpin out with the shirt.  we finalky deided to put a stick man figure with a target in the center and with wirds sayin “you are the target” so then we put instead of the target on the figure we put the figure on the target i know sounds pretty weird well let me explain …instead of  the target on the man we put the target as the background and then the man on the front of the target. it was pretty much by mistake though john was just playin around with the stick fgure and then he thought bout putting him on the front so yea nce he was doin that i helped keith with his poster… he had orgotten so many brand i was like wat is wrong with you boy lol so i took the liberty to help him add more logos and stuff like that lol it wa pretty koo today cant wait wat happens tomorow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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My SeCoNd DaY! iN ThE t-ShIrT tEaM!! yay me

Posted by liltraviesa on July 11, 2008

well i didnt even come yesterday so im not really sure wat our class did but today were alrwady startin on our culture spy projects. and lucky me is in the tshirt team. so me and three other classmates of mine to design the  shirt. were already startin with the photoshop and i already started bloggin today since i have to gt out a lil earlier than everyone else . man im so nervous fo tomomrrow and im gonna be soo busy today so might as well get started with my writin today . im really excited for this whole tshirt project and the whole culture spy wbsite thing. it a real cool experience that i didnt think i would go throguh any time soon. i never really noticed how the media plays with us teens of this generation untill i came in this class ive learned alot so far and hoping to learn skills i take with me. cant wait  what thigns will happen in this class next on monday!!!!!

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2nD DaY!!!! (michigan ave.)

Posted by liltraviesa on July 9, 2008

welll we all started off like same as always and then our teacher pops out with “were gonna go outside and interview “cool” ppl ” my reaction was obviously oh noooooo omg!!!!! im gonna totally screw it up. it ended up neing pretty koo. we had a chance to pair up with someone f we felt to shy to do it on our own so i paired up with makina. (awesome! lol) we all atopped at michigan avenue and started off in our hunt of “koo” ppl! we fisrt went of near around the plaza and interviewed a chineses girl which by the way i i loved her oversized shades !next we went off to the water tower and for some reason we kept bumping into alfredo and mr wannabe  ananomys dexter lol they eventually recorded us for like 30 sec. after we finshed chatting we left to the water tower and victorias secret (best stores!! lol ). it was awkward at first but it was rather easier than what i thought it would have been although makina and i got rejected like 3 times(tear, tear) well the experience was pretty cool and i liked it alot im learning alot of things i never thought i would being an altra super culture spier lol !!!!!!!!

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FiRsT dAy! HoPe I haDnT MeSsEd Up :s

Posted by liltraviesa on July 8, 2008

this is probably gonna be pretty funny because of the fact that when i left marwen with my camera i felt so excited to take some fottage of either strangers or my friends and when it came down to that moment it felt pretty awkawrd . (lol) well how should i start it well when i left marwen i pretty much told my mom on the way home in the train since we had a good thrity or forty minutes till we got home. Once we did i pretty much was havin an awfully humid day, i was basically in a cranky mood all day till i left my house to tae some footage of people like around 6 or 7 not sure. i left and walked to my cousins house and thought i would have been able to record her and guess she was too shy for the camera. i left then to my friends house yasmin to record either her or her lil bro fabian. once i got there she too was shy so i ended up recording her lil bro. one i was gonna start recording i thought it was gonna be pretty easy since iv known him for  pretty long time i ended up feelin pretty awkward after i told him it was gonna be for a class i was taking here at marwen . i guess he felt he had to be pretty well just firm and posotive about his answers and how he was gonn act in front of  the camera since it was for my class . i  dont blame him i would have been the same too. while i was takin it i felt like cracking up he kept moving back and forth and he made it pretty obvious eh was nervous !  i realy wanna improve how i take my footage and to try to make it more casual and that they can act their normal sily selves but who knows what ill happen

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