I am Many

2/5/2019

I consider myself many things. I dislike limiting myself to one thing because it makes me feel one dimensional and I know my potential extends further than that. One of the many things I can define myself as is an influence. We are all influencers, some of us just don’t know it yet. Social media has given us our own platform to manipulate as we please. To me, It’s more than just a thumb scroll and I’ve chosen to broadcast my skills as a writer to make my time on social media feel a lot more productive. In other words, I’m not only a consumer but I contribute to it by creating.

About a year ago I created a blog and honestly it was the best thing I could have ever done. Ever since then it’s been my ultimate escape. Before this, I was confined by the many social media apps offered, until I realized I could create my own purpose within the digital world that would stimulate me just as much as I was consuming it. My blog is revealing both personally, and socially. I use it to uplift, inspire, and inform others that may have trouble seeing the world from an optimistic standpoint.

For my identity, I use my writing to represent who I truly am. My vision as a writer helps me tap into many different moods, which stems from me growing up with many types of influences around me that allowed me to develop different forms of perception based on the many environments I was in. I was born in NY, but I remember moving around quite often. Fortunately for me I’ve always had a good support system that helped me gain a strong understanding of myself and reality itself.

I have chosen my blog since I believe this is the best way to get a feel for who I am as a person and as an influence.

https://consciouskizz.wordpress.com/

Who I Think I Am

Hello. My name is Jennifer Pappalardo. I am a director, photographer, screenwriter, and artist. I'm mainly quiet and in my own thoughts, I sometimes imagine my world as a film. My eyes are the camera lens. I have so many stories that I want to capture and share with others through my camera work and cinematography. In my media video creations, I enjoy sharing man others stories and talents. If not stories then just something pretty to look at and for me fun making.

The films, videos, photos that I create, I want to achieve out of it uniqueness. Letting the viewer understand after watching that sometimes there's a deeper message within the art itself. Telling unknown and different stories from individuals who deserve to have a say in the world and express it. Or creating something unordinary by creating a fictional film. And while doing this you help others by intertwining and showcasing other talents like painting, music, writing, acting or fashion. Combining different techniques and styles and changing the tone through each one. I am in one way the narrator. And if there's no story to tell I hope something beautiful still comes out of my work. Hopefully in the future one day I'll become a successful director.

This is my passion and this is my identity. Holding the camera and looking through the viewfinder and seizing something that was from my point of view. It is the greatest feeling in the world. Getting the opportunity to take someone's picture or film a performance just gives me great joy. As well as the expression I receive from the other person after they viewed my work is so rewarding, it makes me want to continue my art. 

So below is a screenshot of some of my work and the link is to my Instagram. My media has to mostly do with people, color, and mood. I enjoy using different kinds of photography and lighting to each of my pieces. And yeah and that's who I think I am. Hope you enjoy, contact me if you need ;)

INSTAGRAM

I was but I am becoming....

I am Shaneen- journalist, writer, designer, music connoisseur, and all around creative. I guess I can say my first role in media was a book I made when I was about 7 years old. Another was when I would host family talent shows at about age 10. Both led me into theater acting and production by age 13. Unfortunately, by the time I got to high school, I deserted what I considered "a fun idea" for other things that took up my time such as boyfriends. Ironically, I become an introvert and began to only write, getting lost in the lines of a journal. 

Journaling stayed with me, even to this day. Not all my journal entries were the same. Some days, I would just draw pictures of how I was feeling. Others, would be just poetry and prose. Unable to fully comprehend how I was always feeling, I became interested in music more as an outlet to find commonality within a song to express what I could not. Then I discovered art with painting, print, sculpture, photography, videography and even fashion. I decided not to confine myself and become a collage of intertwining identities. 

Throughout this process, my aesthetic was clear- clean and minimal or aggressively grungy. Oddly enough, one extreme affected the other. If I was feeling happy, my creativity would tend to be grungy. If I was emotionally unstable at the moment, my ingenuity tended to lean minimal. It became the vessel to pull me from one extreme to the other, almost balancing me. 

The moment I realized art, in any form of the process, had this power over me, I embraced it. I began to explore all forms in all media and began to connect to other creatives alike. In turn, I began to conjure the courage to share it with the world, hoping others would find inspiration in my work, as I did others. It was this interdependency that led me back to college to learn more. It is this interchangeability that connects all humanity, in my belief.  

"Life is the art of drawing, without an eraser."

James Humes 

(one of my favorite commercials)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mg10MPeJkNo&list=PLtypuHf5pu4NVj879Bxj2wiCQVMdKKxnp

A Simple Life

I am Jaylyn O'Keefe, and I not only consume media, but I also create it. I am a consumer of daily news from outlets including The New York Times, Vox, The Economist, and Forbes. But I secretly love the accounts that post throwback pictures of Paris Hilton, Linsay Lohan, and Britney Spears. Most of my time spent on social media is scrolling, reading captions, and analyzing photos. Instagram and LinkedIn are the two sites I use most actively. I like to justify the amount of time I spend on these applications as investing in myself because they tend to keep me up to date with current news and relevant topics. Although I am a scroller, I do not like everything I see because I just do not like everything. I am selective on what I like because I don't want to give the platform too much information about me. I like to consider myself very "like conscious" consumer.
I create content on both of these networks; professionally and leisurely. I post photos on Instagram of my friends, family and I but they are genuinely the best photos of us. I have about 6,000 pictures on my phone, and there are probably only 10 of them that are "Insta worthy." I do care about my image because I won't post everything, in fact, I rarely post anything. I have had Instagram since 2013, and I only have 115 posts because taking a photo that captures the best version of myself is a lot harder than any aunt on Facebook will ever understand.  

Media fits into my life because I am surrounded by it. My schedule is pretty intense from school, to work, to extracurriculars and media gives me a space to express myself and enjoy content that I want to watch and submerse myself in. I am influenced by media because of its high participation in my life. I am continually consuming information from outlets that are created around the world. All of my social circle is on social media (Instagram), so I will probably always keep up with them on that. As for LinkedIn, it expands my professional network and has helped me find internships and really advance my career. 

This is how I see my best friend and I. Two pretty girls, living a simple life. 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaylynokeefe/

Who do I think I am

Jenna Arvelo
Arts Culture and Media: Image, Cultural and Identity


     My personal role within the context of this vast multifaceted world that is social media, is one of an quiet observer sifting and sorting through limitless information and images. To say the least I’m a spectator, a consumer, with the ocassonal reaction and political statement on my Instagram story. I try not to think of my identity being tied with my ambiguous persona on my social media, reason being is that I don’t share often. When I do share I share impersonally, and at arms length.
   Yet when interacting with these social apps, it’s hard not to notice the people who use their platforms and followers as a tool for lucrative profits, branding and commodifying their Internet personalities making their mundane lives available for mass consumption. It’s scary for me to imagine myself doing the same thing. To give myself to strangers and allow them to appropriate my images, my life and my surface level identity.
   The invasive quality is something I ponder as an artist creating within the context of my own identity exploration. With that being said, I am indeed creating art for the purpose of its inevitable consumption by whom ever decides to lay their eyes on my work (or purchase it). Even while my themes and processes are deeply reflective of my personal realities, I’ve come to realize that my art doesn’t belong to just me after Ive finished and released them into the world. My art is an object and a product, while simultaneously reflecting fragments of my soul. Yet so much of how we know art today is sharing it in galleries, museums and traditional institutions and most recently Instagram.
So I’m weary and cautious about the sharing aspect of social media, while also understanding the new increasing demand for this media presence.
  Yet to dismiss the impact social media has had on my daily life is one of those things you can’t ignore. I think it’s everyone’s guilty pleasure whether your uploading content or scrolling throughout it. I get my gossip and news from instagram. I’ve also had access to like minded people in the same feild as me. There are people that I’ve been ‘following’ for years while never even making contact with them. I get inspiration from other artists on Instagra; which I understand is quite the contradiction since I’m not so forthcoming with my own art work on my social media. Yet with all that being said, it’s difficult to capture how much of a hold social media has really had over my psyche. I mean, sometimes I find myself opening apps fro no reason, and at this point, in the mist of the fog that is the now, it hard to see the projected future of what all this could become and when I could possibly fit in all of it. In terms of how it’s changed industries such as the art world in this article below.

https://www.artworkarchive.com/blog/how-social-media-is-changing-our-art-experience

Intimate post by @morenaespiritual (2018)

Introduction

                                                                 Who do you think you are?


                                      I'm a person who loves read books and listening to music specific using Pandora. i'm playing Dominoes,cards and others games.  i'm not that sociable but i know that if i need to socialize i do it. it's feel great have a place where you can be in peace and don't have a place to bother you it's great.I use Facebook and wassap are to see, talked with families and friends. apart of that i don't use that much internet unless to read some anime. my future could be finished my carrier and start working.
                                       
                      I'm coming from a big family where you can depends of each others. be part of a big family have some trouble.for example, you can't invite all your friends because were are to many that we don't have enough space for everyone.
                                                                   

                                                   
                                   cuando te van a asaltar pero eres un correcaminos
                                    (when you are going to be assault but you re a roadrunner)
                         
                            This video remember me when i was a kid i get something wrong and my mom want to punish me I run away that fast where my aunt live near ours house :}

Who Do You Think You Are?

My name is Vanessa Reyes, and I am a transfer student from Mercer County Community College majoring in Journalism and Media Studies at Rutgers University. I hadn't thought about my role in media making until reading the assignment, therefore I am thoroughly thinking this through as I'm writing. There may be even a chance that I have written and erased many response. If you are currently reading this, than I finally have my answer.

I started to manage my own blog in 2017 when I finally picked a journalism concentration while majoring in Communications in community college. The blog consists of freelance writing until I finally decide what specific content I would like to have featured. My role in being a media maker is to share my thoughts with my subscribers. Although I do not have a specific subject that I write about, at least those who read my blogs know that what they are reading is purely my thoughts.

So far, my experience with shared art and media events have been slim. I have been a little more active with my blog since I have started attending Rutgers University as I plan to expand my experience by the time I graduate. I manage to fit the media into my life through my blog. I promote all new posts and that is how I gain new subscribers. Most of them have clicked into my blog through Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram. In addition to using social media to promote my self, I gain most of my inspiration through other sources, such as films, news, films, music, etc.

The vibrant colors of my blog is supposed to display the positive mood I keep. I want my readers to keep an open mind when exploring through my content and I always encourage them to share their feedback with me. So far, I have been unsuccessful. However, I continue to push forward because this is the one thing I look forward to doing for the rest of my life. As I attach the link to my blog on the bottom of this post, I hope that you do subscribe and enjoy what I offer to readers.

https://vanessareyes809627.wixsite.com/website