I know tonight's photo is a bit of a hodgepodge of things but I'm only going to focus on two of the stickers that are on these free paper stands. Not that this is a new concept for me, I've done it plenty of times before, but I wanted to assure you that this is going to be that crazy of a post. I learned my lesson early on in this project after an attempt to find information on every single sticker on the back of a street sign, it was too much for even my scatter thinking to follow by the end. I will admit that there is no logical reasoning behind the stickers I picked to focus on tonight though. I didn't research all of them to see what I could find stories on or even pick two stickers that would fit together in a coherent way. Ultimately it was just the two stickers that caught my eye first when I decided to use this image.
The first thing that really caught my eye upon my reexamination of this photo were the hypnotic televisions, probably because there are two of them on the box. It's also a sticker that is making a fairly obvious statement, well at least that's what I think it's doing. I've always found television to have such an interesting mixture of fear, stigma, fascination, and appreciation tied to it. It's center of most people's homes and probably the most common conversation starter at every work place but at the same time is known as a boob tube. Even this image harkens back to this idea of televisions hypnotizing it's viewers into mindless zombies. Although this fear of technology certainly isn't new. People have been concerned about new technologies corrupting the minds of the public for millennium, even the invention of writing was considered a dangerous practice at one time. I was actually just talking with my mom the other day about the fear of television, which might be another reason why I was so drawn to this sticker. Since I was a film major in college, there was always a lecture or two in every class that focused on television's relationship with the film industry. My senior film class actually focused pretty heavily on the representations of the film industry's fears in movies. If you're ever curious about what the industry's fears are over technology, just take a pulse on what the current popular subjects are in horror. And while television may not be as vilified as it used to be when it was first introduced, I think we may on course for a renewed fervor against the corrupting influence of it and sites like Netflix. The second sticker that I decided to look into was the "A Beat A Day" sticker. I know it's a little hard to see, being one of the more faded images on there, but it's the sticker right above the TVs. A large part of the reason I decided to go with it was just the sheer curiosity over what that phrase was even about. There is also the fact that there is a jumping screaming man on the right side of the sticker, that I know you really can't see. In the end it's just too odd of a combination not to try and find out more about. Luckily I was able to cheat a little bit and if you zoom into the image, you can just make out the website abeataday365.com in the black line near the bottom of the sticker. Turns out that this site is actually a music blog, so the beat a day makes quite a bit of sense. According to the about page this blog is, or at least was at some point, curated by a group of friends that wanted to share the music they were discovering with each other and eventually others. Skimming through the posts it seems to be an interesting mix of personal Spotify playlists, a collection of a specific artist's songs or a particular album, and interviews with a variety of people. It seems like the past couple of months have alternated between the different aspects of rock, from alternate groups like Foo Fighters and Green Day to heavier rock like Ozzy Osbourne or Judas Priest. But looking over older posts there where definitely some periods of Rap as well as commemorative posts for artists that recently passed away. It certainly seems to be an interesting collection of items though and will be something I'll have to really spend some time looking into, well more like listening to.
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