Come and Watch the Pretty Lights! (Media Meditation # 3)

If your'e into electronic music you should check out Pretty Lights . Derek Vincent Smith, originally from Colorado, knows how to produce beats appropriate for almost every occasion. Some of his songs are upbeat and hyphie like, Hot Like Sauce, while others are appropriate for mellow moods, like Cold Feeling. Pretty Lights coined their name from a Pink Floyd concert poster, that read " Come and watch the pretty lights!"

The best thing about the Pretty Lights website is the accessibility of their music. They make it super easy to download most of their music and remixes for free. Im not sure how this works when you consider ownership principles, but its awesome. The only thing they ask for is your E-mail. They do this as a bribe of sorts. You get on the mailing list, you get free music.

CONVERGENCE! - We can download FREE music using our personal computers, through the internet, from their website. You can also take the more time consuming route, YouTube their songs, copy the URL and then use video2mp3, to convert the file.

Magazine Blog

Yoga Journal

Hyperbole, Simple Solutions - "Change your diet, Change the world."

Beautiful people - Attractive Yogis on the front page.

Technological shift - They now have a website you can access the same information on as you can in the magazine. As well as Yoga Journal Blogs.

Personal Shift - The website helps to bring people together and blog about their experiences while also sharing thoughts, techniques, and revelations.

Aesthetic shift - Convergence, we went from magazine to website, while looking at it all on a class computer, through a projector.

Discursive shift - They have a blogosphere connected to the website, where yogis can share their ideas.

The value messages in Yoga Journal are geared towards a specific group of people. Those who practice yoga. The majority of these people are concerned with health and spirituality so their articles are mostly on Eating right Wisdom and Practice.

They even have videos to show you how to do poses properly and music thats appropriate for meditation and yoga sequences on their website.

Beautiful people - Attractive bendy people on the cover

Poses

Thats what she did...

Recently I saw a band called Big Gigantic at Higher Ground.

One of the highlights of this band is a saxophone player named Dominic Lalli. Big Gigantic combines elements of DJ and live band with dope saxophone solos. Out of the 3 shows I have seen this month Big Gigantic was by far the best. Their collaboration of musical styles makes them unique.

Photo Cred: Kara De Smet

They closed the show with I cant stop by Flux Pavilion. All night I had been trying to find my friend John. He finally found me in the crowd during this song and we raged.

This is John

Photo Cred

Get your stumble on (Media Meditation #1)

I am proud to say I have recently recruited another stumbler into the StumbleUpon universe. Like the majority of college students, I stumble for a good portion of my day. I am definitely a proponent of this site. I was recently talking to my stepmom about the internet, and she was telling me how terrible she is at surfing the web. I quickly explained to her if she visited the website, took two seconds to create an account and check off some interests it would lead her to some really interesting pages.

Below are some links, photographs, and videos that I have stumbled upon within the last couple of months.

GREG RUTTER'S DEFINITIVE LIST OF THE 99 THINGS YOU SHOULD HAVE ALREADY EXPERIENCED ON THE INTERNET

Fashion:

I know you cant tell from class but when I go out on weekends I try to be as fashion forward as possible. Websites and blogs help me to create outfits and copy ideas. When I see something I

like I save it to my Iphoto in a folder labeled "look book". These are some examples of the pictures I have saved. I recently bought a dress similar to the first photo.

Need Some Music to study to?

Craft Ideas:

Dictionary Tea lights

Hanging string sculpture

The Goods

Hello blogosphere,

My name is Kara and am from Fairfield, NJ. Over my winter break I went to St. John and played with the projection advertisements in the airport while waiting for my plane. I like that it is easy to access information on the internet, but we are bombarded with advertisements in the process. Hopefully next year I will be attending UVM and begin the long process of becoming a doctor.

Photos of my recent trip to St. John

View from the balcony of my room

Left: Me, exploring a local beach.

Right: Julian, Mel, and I on our way to get breakfast.

Photo Credit: Laura Tempini

I recently stumbled upon Best Pictures Of The Decade, check them out, they're awesome.