I decided to write a review on a Renaissance Hotel and Resort ad from the March 2008 issue of Wired. I liked this ad because I though it was a creative use of a double truck layout, which the magazine seems to lean towards. I think it was a good choice for the magazine as far as product is concerned because upper end people like upper end products, which Renaissance Hotel and Resorts is known for. I also thought their ad was clever because it is a “modern” reproduction of the Venus de Milo painting. I think the ad has good balance and it draws the reader in with the lines created with the server’s lean to the right and releases the reader from the ad with the flowing robe that floats off to the right. I also found the colors change from light to dark, left to right was nice as well.
As asked, I checked out twitter.com and I have to say I was not a fan. When you first sign up it says the site is based on one questions, “What are you doing?” Honestly, I don’t think that is an interesting enough question to make “following people around” worth my time. I found the sight confusing and seemingly basic in nature. I also found it to be aesthetically unappealing and visually uninteresting. I much prefer MySpace of Facebook to this program. Perhaps if I was a stalker and obsessed with someone or something I would find use for twitter, but as it stands now I don’t have room for it in my “web-life.”
I googled myself, Melissa Snodgrass, and was pretty disappointed with the lack of information there was about me on the world wide web! I was able to find an article I wrote for the Star (Eagle River local paper) which can be found at http://www.alaskastar.com/stories/030906/peo_20060309028.shtml. There was also a hit to a MySpace comment I left on one of my friend’s page where I referenced myself in “third person.” Not too interesting, so I’ve decided I have to fix this travesty!
My name is Melissa Snodgrass and I’m soon approaching my last few semesters as a JPC major at UAA. I also attended BYU in Provo, UT for 3 years as an English major before moving back to Alaska. I also hope to complete an Art minor at UAA and eventually pursue either a Masters in Business or go to Law School. I love anything and everything that has to do with music or about the music industry and would love to move to New York and intern one of the major record lables. I enjoy photography, traveling, and long walks on the beach (just kidding on that last one!) I hope to go to Cambodia and Thailand in the next few years and spend at least a month traveling in the two countries and take as many pictures as possible. I have an awesome little dog named Scrappy Bojangles and he is quite possibly the best dog ever!! I love little dogs!
Ohhh so there is so much to say and so little time to blog. I’m a busy girl who goes to school and works fulltime. I like my life busy, full of stress, and chalk full of amazing people. I don’t know what else to say at this time…GOD never at a loss for words funny that it should start now.
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