Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Famous People to Normal People

                           "Obama's at Home" Provided from People.com

People Magazine has been around for as long as we can remember. Its the best magazine for those days when all you want to sit in your pajamas and pretend to trade lives with the many celebrities on the cover.

Not only does people magazine give a detailed description of celebrity life, it is all so considered to be a lifestyle. Inside the glossy pages are tips and secrets for everything from beauty to how to find out if this guy is right for you.
                                              ->"Compatibility" Cartoonstock.com

On the website, People provides a tab for video's of the latest news. This video is the "2009 sexiest men", which People magazine does every year and devotes 140 pages of sexy men, as well as sexy women. 

 

People really gets in touch with the Limbic part of our brain, as well as the Neocortex. The magazine is made up of pictures and very large writing to catch the readers attention. People is all so experiencing a epistemological shift. All, if not more of the material that is provided in the magazine that costs $3.99 can be found on the internet for FREE!

People has been known for leaving out certain bits of information to make their story more convincing depending on the angle that they want to portray. This is called "reality construction/trade-offs". Meaning, what stories are they leaving out and why? This question pops in to my head as I flip through the glossy pages to read my horascope for the day, but is quickly pushed to the back of my mind as a picture of Billy Ray Cyrus is basically screaming at me for attention.

->"Billy Ray Cyrus" Provided from blog.newsok.com
Even though i truly love being lazy, staying in my pajamas, and pretending that i was in the glossy pages of People Magazine, it might not be for everyone. People can be a lifestyle to some, bringing famous peoples lives down to the level of normal people like ourselves, and to others it is just 140 pages of gobblygook.