Session 9

My media inventory on a typical day is as follows

- I wake up to a siren sounding alarm on my cellphone, irritated I usually throw it into my laundry pile.
- Turn on my computer and log onto World of Warcraft, check auction house market prices.
- Contemplate on checking my email.....decide its a waste of time since I have over 8000 new emails mostly being viagra advertisements. How they got to my mail I have no idea, but I gave up blocking email. No matter how many I block I still get em.
- Light a cigarette, on the pack are signs stating smoking will kill me. Do I pay attention? Not in the least.
-What is the day today? Check the calendar...
- Turn on the radio as I proceed into the shower and sing/dance.
- Do not eat, if exposed to eye rinse thoroughly. If eaten contact medical services. "Who on earth would eat their shampoo?" I wondered as I proceeded to taste a tiny bit of shampoo.
- Watch tv as I have my breakfast, once I was done I placed dishes in sink. Do not eat sign again on the detergent......sigh
- The shampoo tasted better
- On the way to University I passed by a billboard with adverts on it.
- Walked by a person who was wearing a shirt saying "Hi, how are you doing? And why are you still reading my shirt?"
- At my university building it says "pull" on the door. Im sure if it wasnt there I would see alot more forehead imprints on the glass.
- In the lecture I focus on the lecture slides from the projector. Then my eyes wander off looking for the fire exit sign.
- Once lecture was over decided to grab some food with a classmate. Walked to the cafe and examined the menu. Hmmm beef or chicken?
- On the way back to the tutorial we realised she forgot her handbag. We went back to the cafe but it was gone. I looked around and saw "lost and found property please go to security office"
- The office was closed sadly. Decided to check the student guild office, followed the arrows leading the way.
- Once we were there, the lady behind the desk said we should go to the cashier at student service building. I was distracted by the posters all over.
- Head to student services building, and waited in line at the cashier section. As I was waiting I just read all the signs around me. "be back in 5 minuites" was on one counter, and transaction receipts with instruction on how to fill them were on a desk on my right.
- The cashier had the bag, it was apparantly just given in and nothing was missing inside it.
- We were late for class, as we approached the tutorial room I hear a beeping sound in the hallway. Maybe it is an alarm for one of the doors, it is annoying either way.


I have always looked at the little details of things. Realised the little cracks and the difference in colors. Due to this, actually taking into account all the media that exists in every day life was not hard at all. However realising the media that exists around you can be overlooked.

There are messages everywhere, surrounding us in every moment of our lives. From telling us what we can and cant do, to being simple descriptions or advertisements, messages is in fact part of our culture. The media today actually camouflages itself in our world, hiding behind our realisation of their existance.

Saying this bring about the thought of subliminal messaging in my head, and therefor I have attached a video demonstrating the forms of media that can exist in everyday life, how we take it forgranted but then showing how our minds actually realising its all there.

This really bring about the realisation of the power different forms of media has in influencing us not only as an individual but as a society.

Very interesting to watch and I do hope you enjoy!