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Hi there, welcome back to Apotize.com, today’s article will be a vlog instead. Tattoos used to be a huge “controversial” topic, sometimes taboo, but recently have become a modern styling way, which I definitely do not agree with. Get your tattoos, be very careful of dirty needles, and take good care of the tattoo spot until it heals. Pick your tattoo after spending weeks analyzing the design and imagining having that on you for the rest of your life. Tattoo removals are very expensive and not accurate, so might as well have a good choice rather than getting one done fast. Don’t rush it. If you don’t like a designer’s design, don’t feel ashamed or scared to ask to change it. The tattoo will be on you for the rest of your life.

Oh, and from personal experience, tattoos are addicting. Believe it or not.

Enjoy =)

Much love,

Apo Avedissian

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In-N-Out Burger

My point of doing this diet was to prove to my self that I can quit my daily habit of years and stop it whenever I want to. I did not plan it. I did not sit down and practice for it. I just decided to cut something I ate at least twice a day for a month, and I did it successfully. Although it was rough, it was done. It might not be rough to you, but think about quitting something you do a lot on daily basis and imagine that being cut. Imagine not driving for a month. Intense ? That’s what the burger and soda diet did to me. This diet made me realize what a strong will power you and I both have. Soda, soda, soda, nothing but crap, but hey, I love soda, and you probably do too. My point is done. Seza Baghdadlian, my partner in crime, thank you for joining the diet program right during the start of it, you gave me support and reminded me on the days I forgot about the diet or tried to drink soda =) Off to enjoy some more soda now. On to the next one ;)

Much love,

Apo Avedissian

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Cassettes!! Who remembers those ? Well guess what, I do, and there’s so much to talk about here.

First things first, boom boxes. That cool look of the boom box is enough of a reason for it to be still used in photo shoots with all of those artists. Now that the fun side of the article is done, let’s get into business again.

Cassettes did not have a track list like CDs do. A cassette had only the Play, Stop, Forward, and Rewind buttons, missing the “Skip” button CD players have today. That being said, you had to listen to every track in order to go to the next one, unless you just held that Forward button until the song was over with, and you landed a verse in through the second song, and now you have to rewind.

Did that sound like torture to you, kids? Well guess what, that was one of the reasons artists actually made money during these days. People listened to the album, not to their favorite track 2 and track 10. We listened to an entire album, and that was the experience it self. The album set the mood for you, where the entire album went one way, unlike today’s artists who release an album with 12 tracks, and have three emotional songs, two about their love lives, another three about business, and so on. I can’t blame them though. Today’s media pressures artists to do that in hopes of people liking at least one style and buy the album for that. The 6 minutes tracks are now 2 or 3 minutes long, because the lack of focus from kids that the TV teaches now. Here, we reach to the conclusion why albums don’t sell as much. The Internet has been another factor, don’t get me wrong. One of the biggest factors, as I previously stated actually, is the availability of all of these tracks online. Artists now are forced to give you free content in order to build up your trust in their style. The only reason Lil Wayne sold a million+ in a week was because of the hunger he embedded in people towards his music. Whether or not the million copies sold within the first week was faked, stays with the experts and not my self, for I’m not one in the music industry. But I do know that Lil Wayne used this bad bad things and just flipped it and used it towards his success in a very good way. Support your artists. Listen to their songs. You don’t have to like every song, but it’d be good if you actually played every song and then judged the album after that, not by the two singles you heard.

Much love,

Apo Avedissian

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Why do I blog? Because you’re reading. Welcome back to Apotize.com, back to an “Uncategorized” article.

What is Apotize? Apotizing is the act of change towards civilization. No I’m just kidding, I just like to talk a lot. And change society. And teach psychology. And, yeah, I just like to talk a lot.

I actually wrote this article to thank you, all readers, for all of the comments, “likes” and link-sharings. Knowing there are readers is enough of a reason for me to keep writing. I recently made a facebook fan page for Apotize.com, so please check that out =)
I’ve been getting thousands of page views every night I post an article, and it keeps getting higher and higher, so I just wanted to thank who ever has been telling friends, or sharing my links on your facebooks or websites. So, thank you for that. If you’d like to support a little more, you may even suggest 35 friends at a time on facebook. “Suggest to Friends” right under the picture in the fan page, and select 35 people at a time, and suggest them. If you do more than 35 people, chances are it will not go through but tell you it did. You have to do 35, send, then go back and do another 35 (if you wish). Thank you thank you thank you =)

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Eminem’s album just got leaked. SURPRISE!
Okay, without circling around this, I just wanted to say that leaking albums is a bullshit, but very effective, strategy to sell.
First of all, why do albums get leaked? Second of all, you, self-righteous fans, tend to download leaked albums, download leaked songs, or even singles, for FREE, and then show support to an artist by complaining about it. Well guess what? You’ve stolen valuable things from the artist you claim to be a fan of. If every fan acted the way you did, then the artist wouldn’t make music anymore.

This artist you’re a fan of, however, knows very well that most of his “fans” download his tracks instead of actually paying for them, so what’s a perfect strategy for him to use this for his promotion matters? CIRCULATION. Yes, he has his team leak an album two weeks before the official release, gets the hype up, then drops the album and the ones who ALREADY were going to pay to get his CD will pay either way, and if the album was good, some of the free downloaders might actually go and buy the album as well.

The artist knows very well that his tracks will be downloaded for free either way, so he uses that for marketing purposes. You play it to your friends at school, your friend has it on his iPod, iPhone, iTouch, iPad (damn, Apple DOES rule the world!), you talk about them in person, and you just give them circulation.

Leaking an album is not an easy process if not done by the artist’s authority, and it’s very easy to detect the one who leaks an album if investigated. Not many people get to the final product. Some make a beat, some help record and master. At the end, not many people will have the final track with them, ONE track, now think about having an entire album, with the front and back covers, and official track list all ready to be downloaded in a zip file for you an hour after eminem.com releases the cover for you. Don’t download it if you’re a true fan. Don’t listen to it. If you do download it and listen to it and not buy the CD, not only is it illegal, it also takes your right of criticizing away. Your 5 minutes spent on the track does not qualify you to criticize the guts out of the artist. You have not paid a cent, so don’t complain.

This particularly gets to me because I understand what an artist goes through to get you that 5 minute long track, all the time he puts in, all the money, and you end up just mis-using it.
No, this is not advertising for Eminem, this is an advertisement for every artist. Support them by helping them make more, not by stealing their work and thinking you’re giving them “credit”. The awards they get don’t put food on their tables, your dollars do.

Much love,

Apo Avedissian

Okay so here we go. Got some crazy posters off of ESPN’s marketing campaign. Enjoy =)

Kobe just scored.

Let me guess, there isn’t even a game right now, but Kobe still scored. No, no. Please. Don’t question this. Kobe did score, hold up, is “scored” the right word? Or is that more football-ish? Or should I say futbol-ish?

Ladies and gentlemen, my fellow brainwashed human beings,

NBA: A company.

Staples Center: Money money money.

The biggest businesses are right in front of you. Is it weird that Los Angeles has the most famous teams in sports? Galaxy, Dodgers, Lakers, and what so ever? Yes, in fact, it is. The Los Angeles Lakers, one of the biggest names you see, with the purple and yellow “pride” thrown left and right. Let me tell you something about that, when your car shows the purple and yellow, and your shoes do too, it’s called free advertising. Actually, no. Not really. You’re actually PAYING them to advertise for them. That’s for one.

Second, millions, if not billions, of dollars are put in into this industry. When you have that much money float around, you won’t be joking around. If I put 500 million dollars on a sport, I will fake the games. Let’s think this through. The more and longer we drag our viewers, the more “views” we’re going to have, the more “audience” we’re going to have, the more “advertisement” we’re going to show, the more “products” we’re going to sell, and the more “pride” we’re going to build in our audience. And if that wasn’t enough, the more lives we’re going to ruin.

You have the option of booking “fully sold out” 3 games, 5 games, or even 7 games. They all can have the same outcome, but guess what, each game has SHIT LOAD of more tickets to be sold. SHIT LOAD of emotion to be attached as it gets closer to an end.

Selling you their shoes. Selling you their jerseys. Sucking up your time out of your hands? No. I don’t agree with that part. I actually believe that YOU’RE GIVING OUT YOUR LIFE to them, with will. Wake up. If you like watching a game, do it, it’s no different than a soap opera. But when people kill each other for this, with all the “pride” that goes around that, I apologize for saying this but that’s bullshit.

I mean no hate on the sport. I mean no hate on these billion dollar brainwashers. I only feel guilt watching you suffer and throw up money and feel obligated to inform you. Be careful. Again, I did not say stop watching. Do it right. Watch your self as well, you’re too young to let a guy jumping with a ball make your week.

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Have you ever wondered how can a little kid, or a man, realize that he is color blind?

How do you know that you’re not color blind?

Let’s think this through together. If you were born seeing normal red as purple, you grew up seeing apples in purple; mom, dad, or anyone who takes care of you will note to you that apples are “red” since they see the real red. The code name will be “red”. Now think about this. Everytime you see a real “red” bus, as everyone else sees red, your eyes and brain actually see purple, but you don’t know that purple is called purple. You have learned that the purple you see is called “red”. You’ve learned that that specific color you saw is called that specific name.

You grow old calling trees green, when in reality, you probably see them in yellow, but you don’t know that others see it in another way. You see it one way, and you have been taught that trees are green. Therefore, anything green you see, you will call yellow. In reality, people will see the green and think you see it too, because you called it so without knowing that you called your yellow “green”.

Reality: Doesn’t exist.

We create reality. Everything has been created. No, I’m not talking about the Matrix Trilogy here. Lol.

Our reality is so simple yet we make it so complicated. A beautiful world, almost the same as Pandora from Avatar. They had everything we have on Earth, but we never take for granted. The trees, we felt bad for. The people, we felt sorry for. In reality, Pandora is Earth. The flowers look different, the trees, the people look different, but other than that we have the same concept. Oh, and, obviously, we’re not all blue basketball players. Nor speak Na’avi. Well, maybe the latter. Nerds.

We need to think deep. We need to solve our problems by what we have, not by inventing new things to solve one problem, then have twenty side effects for either the economy, nature, or us. We need to be more sophisticated and thoughtful. Common sense needs to be common. We need to analyze this world. We need to know what goes on around us, and see what could fix things.

So many people go through so much, while the most our brain can take is how to “head-shot” somebody in a video game, or the ladies and their concern about the fashion side of all of these actresses on red carpet looking, to me, very funny.

Think about sufferers and ways to help them. Think about you. The OCD sufferers, the ADD sufferers. I’m not talking about the kids who claim having it. I’m talking about the people who have been in hospitals and can’t see the sun light because of some diseases many pretend to have for attention.

This one’s for you HD. HD Magic: Think Deeper Into Your Reality. Check him out, he got some great talent and will teach you about reality in his own ways.

Much love,

Apo Avedissian