April 28, 2007

• Topic Post #24: Our Cultural Icons

  

   Internet Island Topic Post #24: Our Cultural Icons

  Since I’m redesigning my website “The Cultural Blender”, adding individual pages for each “icon” image inside the composite “Blender”, I’ve been reading and writing a lot about what constitutes “iconic” status in the world of celebrity and fame. I’m very interested in what cultural icons are important to you. When I created the image of the “cultural blender”, I chose about 30 “icons” to represent popular culture. Because this is not a large number, a lot of cultural heroes have been passed over. With this entry, I want to give the Islanders a chance to weigh in on which cultural trends and personalities excite and inspire you. They might be heroes, giants of entertainment, or simply favorite stars or remembered celebrities from our youth.

  The Topic Post will last approximately two weeks to a month. Please enter the link or date of your Internet Island Topic Entry for this post in a comment here. If you are creating a link, make sure you link to the page with the “comments” box and not the page with five entries. (HERE IS A TUTORIAL ABOUT HOW TO MAKE LINKS.) The purpose of Internet Island Topic Posts is to help get the members of the Internet Island Blogring to exchange comments and get to know each other. Please check back periodically for new entries throughout the posting period.  If you post a topic entry, please make an attempt to visit the other Islanders who do so as well. It is also a good idea to post the link to the Topic Entry in your own entry so that other interested parties can come here. You can copy/paste the Topic Post links right here in this entry into your own weblog entry box.

  24.01:  Write or present a list, as short or as long as you wish, highlighting your own personal “icons” and describing why they are important to you.

  24.02:  Have you ever met or seen a movie star, music personality, radio disc jockey, writer, artist, or tv star in the flesh?

  24.03: What makes something representative of it’s genre? Give an example or examples. For instance, for me, John Wayne is (still) the leading iconic “western hero” even though he’s been dead for 30 years.

  24.04: Are you now or have you ever been obsessed with anyone or thing in the popular cultural consciousness?  One of the new “icons” I included in the blender is the hit television show “American Idol”. Although I personally don’t care for this program, it seems to speak to a massive amount of people. One of my friends is obsessed with the online computer game called “World of Warcraft”. My girlfriend is obsessed with Disneyland. Are you secretly (or not so secretly) addicted to any personality or cultural trend?

  24.05: I include popular “brand names” in my Cultural Blender. You’ll see “cokes” on the coffee table in the composite image above, and there’s an “Energizer Bunny” displayed on the floor. Write about your favorite product or service, or a remembered family brand, iconic or not.

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  Topic Entries:

  Kristenmomof3 24.01 3/27 1prettynosyarentu 24.04 3/27 Zeal4Living 24.01 3/28 California Gal 24.04 3/28 PacifismPlease 24 3/28B pogueatl 24.02 3/30 Building A Mystery 24 3/30 Teena 24 3/30 screaminginmyhead 24.01 4/1 mourning2dancing 24 4/1 pray14me 24.04 4/1 ElectricBlue Eyes 24 4/3 boureemusique 24.01 4/7 xXxchi cchickxXx 24.02 4/16 adriansluzky 24.04 4/17 baldmike2004 24 4/20 NikitaButterfly 24.04 4/03 (NEW MEMBER) xhandwrittenlettersx 24.01 4/24 What a Wonderful New World 24 4/25 YOU ONLY HAVE TO WRITE ONE TOPIC. OR MORE IF YOU WANT.  IT’S ALL UP TO YOU! Remember, the tabs at the top of theInternet Island Blogring Page will “sort” the members by latest post, date joined,  and alphabetical Username. Use the ring page to find new Islanders, or older ones you might not have visited in a while. It’s OUR Island, and we’re a great group of people with different interests, fantastic stories, and wonderful lives, and we have a great deal of love for our fellow man. There are no “right” or “wrong” responses to any Topic Post for Internet Island. All responses are just as valid as any other response. The image above consists of a photo of a living room set from a furniture website, layered with issues of “Icon” magazine, which include some of the pages in the Iconography Section of the Cultural Blender website. Besides the Energizer Bunny, and the Coca Cola bottles, there is a Wurlitzer Jukebox, a 1959 Cadillac model car, a Mickey Mouse collectible, a Daniel Boone lunchbox, Mad Magazine, an early TV Guide Fall Preview issue, and a fifties televsion set showing Gumby, besides the blender itself.

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