The Mustache Power Hour

REFLECTIONS

2/17/10: Activity 9

1.] The video we had to watch for activity 9 deal with how the world is changing languages and becoming smaller as a world, both reasons that are relevent to Social Studies and english. For example, in English, the world is whitnessing the disintigration of a language into another realm of acceptable jargon that is always evolving, from the texts we were used to reading for high school, to the walls on youtube. In Social Studies, the study of people is being conducted on the world, by the world, where hundreds oft thousands of people. These people are conducting nacissistic experiments to see who will want to watch them and save them from the current evolution of the "whatever" mentality exhibited by the crowds.

2.] Recognition refers to a part in the video where the lecturer explains the difference between "cognition" and "recognition" When something is first observed, it is cognition, or the encoding into memory this particular snipped of information. Recognition occurs when previously known knowledge is exibited repeatedly in social settings, which also gives the information relevency. For example, the "Charlie Bit Me" video is one of the most viewed on youtube, and is the cognition. But after people see this video, there are sillier spoofs put out by other people, recalling and drawing from previously stated information, whether they have remixed the video into a rap song, or doing a satire of the video themselves, the video is being recalled and given increased relevency which each spinoff.

2/12/10
I am beyond pumped about Laurel and Sam's pages on cats. Cats are total jerk-wads, but the greatest thing to blog about, due to cat massages and kittens; inspired by kittens.

Also, Chris' page, with the fishes....unbelievable.

2/10/10

I chose to keep things incredibly simple but informative, like the first grade teacher's page. The more complicated the page, the more distracted an individual may be by the content .

I used a poll and other interactive pieces to engage the reader.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Lord Likely's Extra-Ordinary Interactive Mustache-O-Rama

Ever wonder what Aristocrats look like in mustaches?
Specifically Lord Likely?

[lord likely approving of you.]
Well, here it is folks; the interactive widget for mustache lovers everywhere.
Play with the Fu-Manchew, or the Tit-Tickler. You know you want to.

Click Lord Likely for PURE EXCITEMENT

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Alright guys; let's get real.

It's time we discuss the beauty of the mustache, and its history. First of all, how would one define mustache? WELL, the American Institute of Mustaches defines it as,

"the wearer grows only the upper lip hair and chooses to shave the hair on his chin and cheeks, whereas growth of all facial hair would constitute a beard as worn primarily by college professors, aging beatniks and men who wander around downtown with whom you don’t want to make eye-contact." (aim).
I myself do not agree with the definition of the beard, as all facial hair is perfectly acceptable, but hey...that's just me.

The facial hair goes back as far as man, like, if we look at chimps, it makes sense. But, shaving goes back as far as 300, B.C. to the Gilette dynasty, where man (or italian women) used razor sharp stones as razors.

Know who had a baller beard? Jesus.

More modernly, Mustaches were worn by military men, to show just how macho they were. Imagine being charged at by a dude with a mustache with a bayonet; what are you doing? Praying you don't get shot, but you know you already are.

Mustaches in this time showed how awesome you were; if you were a higher rank, your mustache was much more baller, then men on the field has less elaborate mustaches. It sucks, everyone should be able to have sweet mustaches. But whatevs. If you were the highest rank, you were allowed to rock a beard. So basically, the more you suck, the less facial hair you can have. It's a viscous cycle.

Now a days, mustaches are making a sweet comeback, due to hipster irony. It's pretty great.