Everything is Personal

     I have a profound love for taking photos and the iPad's incredible technological advances for editing pictures right at the touch of your finger are simply amazing. One of the most fascinating and phenomenal additions the iTouch has contributed to my life, consists of the advancements in photo editing and photo-sharing apps such as that of Adobe Photoshop and iPhoto itself. Although I do not own an iPad, when holding the virtual mini computer itself in my hands, the number one category I would search for on the iTunes apps website interesting me the most, would certainly revolve around anything having to do with photography. Photography apps on the iPad directly show the expressive individualism perspective Apple stands for.

 

Picture of Apple's iPhoto app as seen on http://www.apple.com/apps/iphoto/

     IPad's are not a minimalist design. There is no Jewish iPad, African American iPad, toddler to kindergarten through first grade iPad, but rather a blank display screen with a blank slate just waiting to be filled up with details of who one is as a person. Expressive individualism as emphasized by Robert Bellah certainly focuses on the aspect of each individual having a unique personality and overall core of feelings and intuitions throughout the personal life in which he or she lives. However, that being said, the expressive individualist has the utmost capability to merge their life with the intuitions and feelings of others who have alternate similarities combining together to create a community. When picking up an iPad owned by myself in the future, one would surely see a multitude of photos, editing software, and numerous albums just waiting to be shared for my family and friends to see. This personal development of my own blank screen creation allows me to emphasize who I am and what's important to me because I think different than any other person around me.

     Apple's ads certainly encourage the art of thinking different. It is this art that together combines via networking, app sharing, and communities like facebook that certainly brings the technological and social world together. Without apps the iPad would be boring. However, once one chooses what they want to play around with on the app site, and sets up their personalized items, a new community awaits to be discovered and ventured by all. As the iPhoto app directly implies, "all you have to do is touch it to believe it." The expressive individualism affinity sought for by Apple awaits to be embarked on by the touch of a finger itself. A multitude of apps of all genres have been created to allow each and every human being to do so. What more simplicity could one ask for?

They say a picture is worth a thousand words and my iTouch certainly reaffirms this via displaying the photo album journey in the expressive individualistic life of who I indeed am as a person. Everything is personal and my photos allow me to share that personal side to create a community I want others to know and love as well!