This is literally insane!

I found this on my friends facebook page and I am not sure where he saw it but I am going to do more research!...




World's First Virtual Shopping Store opens in Korea. All the Shelves are infact LCD Screens. User Choose their desired items by touching the LCD screen and checkout at the counter in the end to have all their ordered stuff packed in Bags. Isnt that Amazing?

^This is so crazy to me. Technology is awesome but doesn't it make you wonder how lazy the world is going to get if more businesses begin to run this way. Job will be lost for sure!

Awesome typography

I found this website when I was stumbling. It's 25 different photoshop tutorials on awesome typography. I especially want to learn the first water effect one! I think the possibilities behind typography are endless and this just proves that. I really hope to test out some of these tutorials before the end of this semester.

Spoof Website

After thinking about things that bug me a lot, I quickly thought about all the materialistic people in this world that annoy the crap out of me. I then decided that I wanted to make a spoof website about Pandora bracelets. The amount of money people spend on those bracelets that I personally don't even think are pretty, is outrageous. It's all about the name brand, not the quality or even the appearance. With that, I am going to have a fun time making fun of the website and making a statement about the jewelry themselves. I look forward to comparing their bracelets to children's bracelets and I will post a few websites to show what I mean.

Pandora's Website

Pandora's Other Website?

Googled "kids jewelry" and the images all somehow resemble pandora bracelets. In fact, pandora site was the first thing to pop up on the "web" section of google for this search. Because it's really necessary to get your child who grows every minute of the day a Pandora bracelet, don't worry about their college fund...that should just grow on a tree.

Spoof Website

It took me awhile to think of a concept because for some reason I don't think I'm very passionate about things. I know I have a lot of feelings about things, but nothing that makes me sit there and start debates with people usually.   But one thing really does bother me, and thats how over paid athletes are.  I was hoping to spoof one of the major sports association websites if I can figure out what to do since they all seem to work with javascript.

MLB
NFL
NBA

Parody Project

After much contemplation I feel I have always weighed in on the cigarette debate.   I have always paid full attention when The Truth commercials come on television.  Cigarette smoking has the greatest impact on kids.  Research brought me to the Patrick Reynolds. His ties in the tobacco industry run deep.  With anti-smoking campaigns always on heavy rotation, I want to spoof it up and play the big bad wolf.

Tim Wood - Foxconn

http://www.geek.com/articles/apple/apple-factories-increase-child-labor-report-20110215/

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2010/jun2010/foxc-j03.shtml  

http://abcnews.go.com/International/trip-ifactory-nightline-unprecedented-glimpse-inside-apples-chinese/story?id=15748745#.T2FcIszGVr1

 

My concept is about the the manufacturing site Foxconn in Shenzhen, China and it's use of child labor and how poorly their workers are treated.  I also want to emphasize it's connection with Apple because recently an audit was done on Apple and the factories used to create their products and they found that a lot of policies and labor laws were being broken.  I want to change around their facilities section of their website that shows all of the places of the campus and bring to life what they're actually like.  I also want to add in a lot of pictures and information about Foxconn that aren't on the original site.

Photoshopped

My concept is about how excessive Photoshop is being used in the media.  I am going to use a variety of examples to get the point across. There are so many images available on the web that it won't be difficult to find what I need, and besides images I want to have a page that links out to videos about Photoshopped images.  I haven't quite figured out how I will separate the images into categories; but I will have a navigation to each category, the video page with links, and a page with 'The Message' that I am trying to make.  As a template I was thinking about using either a fashion, gossip, or a beauty product website such as these:
http://www.ralphlauren.com/home/index.jsp?ab=global_logo
http://intouchweekly.com/
http://www.lorealusa.com/_en/_us/index.aspx?FROM=WW-Dispatch-LOREAL-CORPORATE