My Three Icons

The three icons I have chosen are as follow: Holly Hobby, The Rock (Dwayne Johnson) and Andy Griffith. The Rock (Dwayne Johnson) is one of the biggest and highest paid actors currently. In the passed month he has released three movies at the theater and won a belt on WWE.  Andy Griffith has been an icon for 60+ years; I do not think there is one person who has not herd of Andy Griffith and the town of Mayberry. Holly Hobbie is a character that started out on greeting cards and in the 1974 was made into a doll.

Holly Hobbie was a big part of child hood, my sister and I had all the dolls and carried them around with us for years and my sister still has the dolls.  My favorite doll was the Amy doll; she had red hair like me.  We shared a bedroom and our room was even decorated in Holly Hobbie, we had everything available at the time curtains, bedspreads, sheets, pictures on the walls, a record player and even our trash can was Holly Hobbie.  Recently I was at Hallmark looking for a birthday card from my sister and came across Holly Hobbie stickers, I bought them and gave them to my sister in her card, she loved them.  The name and image bring back so many good memories of my childhood.

           

I grew up watching reruns of The Andy Griffith show and dreamed of living in a place like that. Everyone was so friendly and Sheriff Taylor could talk anyone out of a bad situation and who could forget the bumbling Depute Fife. I think everyone who loves the show wanted to be a part of that type of community. I have now introduced my children to the show and they love it.  As soon as my son comes home from school he turns on Netflix and starts watching Andy Griffith, we have probably watch the whole series as least twice and watching it again.  I feel it is a good thing for my kids to see that life has not always been like it is now.  People lived without the Internet, TV, cell phones and video games.

A few years back my husband loved watching wrestling, I would suffer through three hours on Monday nights watching these men wrestle and listen to the drama pouring out of my TV.  The only thing that made it all worth it was seeing The Rock slam someone and walk away winning a belt, he hardly ever lost.  He is tall dark and handsome and has such charisma women love him and men want to be him. He can play a serious role and comedic roles and still looks good. 

Pop Culture and What it Means to Me

Popular Culture is everywhere around us.  It is the TV shows we watch, the name brands of the shoes we wear and the even the phones we use. We are bombarded every day with images and name brands and items we should use, wear or eat because everyone is doing it. Every Culture has the things everybody associates with Popular Culture.  In almost all industrialized countries people now have computers, TVs and cell phones. So some pop culture items are expanding to everywhere in the world. Because of the Internet I can now watch popular TVs from England, Japan and many other countries.  So for me Pop culture is almost everything around us it is what we are wearing, how we communicate and what we drive.  It is in everything we do and see.

I feel it is very relevant in the business world; it helps companies to know how to get the peoples attention.  It shows business what people are interested in and like to do. It will be relevant in my course of study as I am working on my degree in Computer Programming.  I could be creating apps or programs involving one or more Popular Culture items.  

            My artifact is a reality TV show called “Duck Dynasty”.   People are in love with this TV show from women to men.  Men are growing full-face beards because of this show and women love that their men are doing it. There are Facebook pages and Twitter pages dedicated to the show, the characters and even the things they say. They are everywhere on the TV, the Internet and magazines. I would almost bet that the merchandising for the duck hunting industry has seen in increase it sales too due to the show.