Oct. 23, 2009 How many times have you heard that preface to a conversation about pop culture lately? Tweens? Teens? Okay, I promised NOT to do a Halloween Horrors bit on girls' costumes and tramp vamp cues (been there, done that) BUT the irony in the timing of this post from Australia titled, "Musical Tarts are Infecting Our Children" that referenced us here at Shaping … [Read more...]
“I’m Not A Prude, But…”
Filed Under: Advertising, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Vapid Values Tagged With: Amy Winehouse, APA, artist, Australia, boys costumes, celebrities, Celebrity worship, childhood, coarse, commodification, DIY costumes, domestic violence, fatherhood, Fright night, frugal costumes, Girls Costumes, Girls Gone Mild, Green Halloween, Halloween, Homemade Halloween, hypersexual, Kids, Lady Gaga, Lily Allen, Michael Jackson DIY costume, mind pollution, modest is hottest, Music, objectification, Packaging-Boyhood, Packaging-Girlhood, parenting, Patrick Kennedy, Poker Face, pop music sensation, Pop-Culture, Pussycat Dolls, raunchy, rock and roll, Sesame Streetwalkers, sexuality, Sexualization, Sheeple, slut-ho, So Sexy So Soon, teens, Tipper Gore, Top Costumes 2009, tramp, Twilight, vamp
When Art Meets Earth: Wyland’s Ocean Murals Inspire Kids to Care
April 23, 2009 Wyland unveiled his latest original art at the world premiere of Disneynature's Earth where it will remain on display through May at the historic El Capitan Theater in Hollywood. Mind you, few kids think of art as media, much less a distribution channel to evoke a sea change of dedication to the planet or any cause. Truth is, public art has the ability to … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 100 Whaling Walls, Activist, Aloha Airlines, animals, art and science, artist, Beijing-Olympics, biodiversity, challenge, clean water, coral reefs, cow parades, Disneynature, dolphins, Earth premiere, eco warriors, education, Elf-Island, graffiti art, Habitat Heroes, Kids, marine life artist, marinelife, Michael Osborne, MLC, Mobile Learning center, murals, NCLI Act, ocean, oceanography, Painting, PBI, Planet Earth, public art, Scripps, sea change, seascapes, Shark Quest, Virtual-Worlds, water, whale wall, Whale Wall 33, whales, WhyReef, Whyville, Wyland, Wyland Foundation