assignment two visual

After carefully reading through the assignment and going through all of the articles over the previous weekend I have come to learn a few things about the visual blog. I did not search for other blogs I simply just went to the listed links. Just from viewing those links you come to learn alot about the blogger. I particularly enjoyed the Cheezburger site. ICanhasCheezburger seems to be a site in which cats are the focal point but not just cats. These cats are put into funny situations. There is a picture of a cat hiding in a trash can in which the cat says something along the lines of I am just an unsuspecting trash can throw away your left over meat. I cracked up once I read that and could not help but to continue looking at the pictures which were comical. I do beleieve that pictures help to tell a story and that from looking at images in a web blog you do get some personal insight into what type of person the creator is. If we think about the cheezburger website for example we could assume that the creator has a fondness for cats and making them do silly things. Either that or the person is simply a comic who loves to have fun. Many assumptions can be made just from viewing an image as well as conclusions. When people put together their web blogs and import pictures and youtube videos they are trying to express them selves and their thoughts as well as their interests. One visual blog that I enjoy which may not be a blog is located at vote4amare.com in which the aformentioned NBA star has several videos of himself encouraging visitors to vote him into the All Star game. So blogs do not just tell a story the serve a purpose and that is to get something accomplished. Lastly in posting my very own blog for the first time I am still learning the ropes. Blogging is as foreign to me as the chinese language but I hope that to date my blog says that I am a huge sports fan especially of football. I am sure that most of my blogs will have some thing to do with sports and that you will learn that in my spare time I watch ESPN quite frequently. In fact I know more about what is happening in sports than in any other news medium out there. If you were to ask me what is happening in the world you would get a blank stare but if I was asked what major news happened in sports Id say Steelers are world champs, Nadal and Serena win the Australian open, and Michael Phelps is under scrutiny for recent bong related photos. What can I say I am the epitomy of a sports nut.