Week Ten // Infographics Exercise

This week we spent the class doing an exercise which involved creating infographics with 50 images of a product or object and arranging them into subjects. I did two which were categorized into Style and Colour.

The hand-out we were given was from Madison magazine and was an article about a group of teenagers who broke into a couple of celebrities homes and stole various of their possessions with the aid of the technology and social media.

 

This case is now being made into a movie by Sofia Coppola and is set to be released next year.
What stood out to me was the power that people have with social media in today's age and when the power gets into the wrong hands it can go wrong. I also found it really interesting how the leader of the group, Nick Prugo, was the only one to get a Jail sentence. In the article it states that this case demonstrates  the level of confusion we have between celebrity and non-celebrity and that the defining line between them and us is blurred. What I think of this statement is that it should be that way. Celebrities are just people like you and me and glorifying them like they are Gods doesn't help anyone. Also, if the people hadn't been stolen from weren't celebrities, would it be that publicized in the media?