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Hi there! Welcome back to Apotize, which had been blocked by Facebook for two weeks now, and is finally unblocked just as we speak. [MUSIC VIDEO INFO BELOW]

Here’s the thing, just like we’re taking over Earth with our industrial ‘things’ and technological advancements doesn’t mean that Earth will be sitting there for the rest of our life time, or a couple of generations down, and clap for our achievements. Just like we’re taking every jungle down one by one, Earth will have its earthquakes, volcanoes, tornadoes, and everything in between until we’re all wiped out and everything is recycled and life goes back to zero. You can call that the judgement day, you can call that big bang theory two, or you can call that bullshit. That’s none of my business. My business is directly with society. This giant network, Facebook, got a little butt-hurt from recent blog posts I posted about how Google Plus is going to screw it. I said Google Plus will take over everything facebook ever stood for. Talk about privacy, and now Google will be doing the same to them, and they will do it the right way because, I still stand by my point, Google is simply better than Facebook. Just like Google will take over and Earth taking everything back again, I’m simply back!

Music Video Information

I know I mentioned earlier about the music video being worked on, and I gotta say I’m pretty excited for this one. I haven’t put this much effort on any work since the last video, and that last video was a practice one. I’m looking forward to sharing this “mind-projection” with you and I do hope you get the point and message of the art work I’m about to show you. The new music video is for a song by Alex Trebor, produced by Sergei Avakyan, who are both musical geniuses in their own types of work. It has been amazing seeing what three creative minds can come up with, especially when each mind specializes in something the other has almost no idea or very little information about. It’s a complete circle now.

I always ask people to learn before they enjoy. My work is about teaching. I try to make it amusing so it catches attention out of the millions of other videos out there and not get you to be bored, and once you click on it you get to see and learn, but there’s a limit to that. I won’t put clowns to grab your attention and make you sit, smile, and clap as you watch like a little baby. I’ll only do a subtle thing there, but like I said, learn and enjoy. It’s both healthy and fun for you. Make Up by Jess, I don’t even have to say anything else besides this to explain the amazing art-pieces she pulled off; made everything to what I had in mind the same way I watched the video in my head before making it a reality =)

So here’s the deal!

How do I get to see the video?

You can now sign up using the Google Newsletter widget located on your right hand side column, right below the featured video at the top. You can sign up using that device, and what that will do is send you an email when ever an Apotize article is up with only the link inside. What does that mean? It means that there’s no cluttered bull-crap spam that takes over your email. This is a single e-mail per post system that comes with only the link to remind you that there’s a new article you can read on the website. What else does that do? Well, besides it being run by Google (making it absolutely safe), I’ll be sending the music video to whoever signs up in the next two days, no matter how many people, I’ll personally email all of you with the video link before it’s released to the public and you will get to see the music video and comment before anyone else even hears the song =) Good enough of a deal? I think so! Go ahead and sign up now and wait for the email. You’ll be getting it soon ;)

Good night,
Apo Avedissian

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Google Plus Ready to Crush Facebook.

What a week this past week was, Google rolling out Plus and Facebook inviting everyone to that online event they had been highly promoting on our pages about the very important announcements Facebook was about to make and reveal new features. I still think that Google is gonna push Facebook out majorly. FB isn’t backing out easily, but still. We’re talking about google. G-Mail. Google Maps. Two products mentioned here and they’re already some of the biggest inventions that have happened during our time. The stock market opens up and so many hopefuls are waiting on Google to go even higher with its stocks because of the launch. I’m really waiting for all of this to come down to the official release of Google Plus and the new Facebook features. Will we want to stay by Facebook out of laziness since they will copy most of Google Plus’ ideas? (Already copied the video chat and is gonna do it with Skype, and already made an app to do what Circles do to Google Plus, which is almost the entire idea of Google Plus). Will we all move to a new technological advance presented by Google and just start a new generation thing? Who knows, things are pretty heated already even though these two giant companies are only in their cold war eras. With the last three weeks’ stocks going dramatically down, the stocks soon enough rose way higher and gave Google a ten percent profit range. Amazing stuff going on.

Netflix and Facebook Partnership?

Facebook had a meeting with Netflix recently, and no one knows what that meeting was about, but let’s act like adults for a second and just take a smart guess and say Netflix will soon be on Facebook so now not only can people sit on their computer all day and leave to the other room to watch tv and come back, they can do all of that from the same chair they’re sitting on!

Isn’t it kind of alarming when I don’t leave my chair to go talk to a house member? All I gotta do is move my arm, pick up that little device on my desk they call an iPhone, and SAY call my brother, and it’s done, my brother is on speaker and I don’t even have to hold the phone next to my ear! Is this insanity? Nope. This is pure genius.

Facebook has Netflix? Google has Youtube.

So here we go, movies are coming your way, and your credit cards are of course all accepted, and now you’re sitting there ordering shit you don’t even need just to stay happy, and once you’re broke enough not to have food in your house, you complain and go into depression. Google bought Youtube a while back, and since Youtube offers online movie rentals as well, this is going to be one fun life for this generation.

Oh, sweet-talk marketing.

Get Google Plus and let me know what you think! I got some invites I could help you out with in case you can’t get a hold of an invitation.

Apo Avedissian

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Wow.. one of my longest article titles I’ve written. Well, that title was the coolest thing in this article. You will not find anything cooler. I doubt it. No, hmm, you might. (You won’t).

First things first, if you’re reading this, chances are you’re either here from Google or Facebook. Why? Because these two just took over the internet. What do you think about the evolution of the human beings’ communication system? Lol. Don’t we all love it? Nope, some people hate it, and you know what’s funny? They address their concerns ON the websites they hate.

Anyways, so Google comes up with Plus, Google+, a new project where Google’s own social network not only serves as a social network but as a means of categorizing your life into tabs you can easily select. Circles. These circles are groups of friends you privately share info with. Sparks are the tabs of interests you have, and you get to have live news about the interests you’re into. I have stocks and rap included in my tabs, and I already love how it’s both detailed and simple at the same time.

Google Plus is going to fuck Facebook the same way Facebook fucked MySpace. Yes, I said it. Why? Because MySpace fucked Hi5 and the daily e-mail usage. E-mails fucked the daily phone calls, and of course, the telephone fucked THE NORMAL FUCKING CONVERSATION.

Why am I ranting? Because I just do out of habit. No, I don’t. Indecisive? No. Maybe. Yes. But I do know that these things have a great effect on how human beings act and react to things around them. Am I scared from a change? Absolutely not. I embrace change and I’ve always been a fan of seeing how a new technology comes and everyone older than my generation would complain that this is too much for humans to take, but it does nothing other than helping humans. Well, depending on how we use these things of course.

MySpace was sold again, and apparently they’re working on a big come back that involves a lot of celebrities. I doubt this works out, but we can’t take sides since who knew a website open for one school could take over the biggest social network at its time? (Facebook and MySpace, respectively).

I heard about Google Plus a while back, so I decided to check it out and learn about it. Soon after, Google’s stocks just jumped 10% up. Insanity. Google’s BETA version of Plus was so popular (mostly thanks to Google’s very smart marketing way of limiting the usage at the beginning) that people were begging to buy invitations from people who already happened to have accounts. It got to a point where Google closed down the invites system, changed some settings, and now very few people get to invite their friends. Why? Because they can.

I finally got an invitation and got to check what this website was about. I already love it. At first, I thought “would people switch all over again?” then I remembered that people already switched over and over again looking for something that suits them best. What ever is the ‘cool’ thing that’s also a new invention becomes THE thing. The cool thing. So, did people just learn some HTML codes because they wanted to? No, but they did so they could color their MySpace pages and add their favorite pictures on it. Now, thanks to Google Plus, we have the new Hangout  feature where people can click on the tab and ‘hangout’ with the circles they want to hang out with. What is hanging out? LIVE VIDEO CHAT! Yes! Isn’t that impressive? It sure is. What’s more impressive? Facebook doing a deal with Skype to bring video chatting to facebook as well. Why? I smell fear, and I like the smell of it =)

Google Plus rolled out these “+1″ recommendation system icons that pretty much replace the Facebook ‘like’ tabs you see on almost every website now. What’s so different about the “+1″ you might ask, hmm, a lot is my answer.

First, Google runs the biggest search engine online. How does that matter? If you’re logged in to your google account and you happen to search anything, every single link you see on that page can be “+1″ed whether the website has the system installed or not, unlike Facebook’s ‘like’, where webmasters have to code and link to facebook with their accounts in order to get that little box so people “like” their work.

Second, whenever you +1 something, that goes in your record, so next time you look for information Google already knows what you’re into. Smart? No. GENIUS.

Let’s say you like hot wings for a nice lunch, and you happen to +1 a couple of hot wings restaurants, guess what, the next time you look for a restaurant the top picks for you will include hot wings. Why? Because Google cares ;)

I’m in so much love with this new +1 system that I already have it installed on Apotize.com It’s fast, simply, and easy. CLICK. Done, it’s all done. You log in, Google knows who you are. You sign out, Google won’t remember one thing about you. Privacy? That’s top of the line privacy.

Well, there’s more to that privacy thing there. YOU CAN SHARE WHAT EVER YOU WANT WITH ONE SINGLE CIRCLE, and no other circle will see what you shared with them. And you know what’s cool? No one knows which circle they or their friends are in. The only people who know their circles are the ones making them. If you post your lunch picture with your family in your family circle, only these members will get to see it, your friends in your Friends Circle won’t see a thing, and won’t even know that they’re in a different circle and that you posted anything else that they didn’t see. Private messaging gone on steroids. I love it. If you need invites let me know. I might be able to help you out =)

Apo Avedissian

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San Francisco - Apo Avedissian

About two years ago, I took a break from a long session of photography that lasted for a couple of years. Photoshoots, events, and even private bookings were down by more than 90%! I needed a break. It was a time where everybody became a DJ, everybody became a rapper, and sadly, the one that was most personally touching for me, photographers. I couldn’t take it anymore. “I’m not one of ‘them’, so why should I be?” was always on my mind. I was eighteen and sick and tired of adult human beings’ actions.

I took a break from daily photo work and decided to sit-back and watch. This week, after a nice San Francisco trip, I finally got in the mood of doing photo work again. By that, I mean photography ;) I took some really nice shots of San Francisco using my phone alone, and luckily I had my camera with me, so I was pretty much in heaven.

Once we got in the city and I saw the buildings and street life, I had to take my camera out and zip my bag up. I wasn’t gonna put the camera away. I hung the lenses’ bags on my wrist and carried on walking around every where and taking pictures of everything. Anything I saw I snapped a picture of, and whichever street I had time for, I walked. I’m here with hundreds of shots that I need to sit down and edit, but what’s more important is the fact that I want to bring art back to the photography scene. I’ve always been so pissed at dudes with $5,000 cameras who have absolutely no skill but just shoot pictures and call it photography. I started an iPhone photography session on my Facebook fan page to show how much the meaning of the photograph matters rather than what the photograph is taken, or made, with; now I’ll be doing some real photo work for the sake of this beautiful art.

I missed teasing people with trailers and then going through the count downs to release music videos. HINT. I missed posting videos and pictures and watching the feedback pour in, good old MySpace days. Well, now is the time for a little change. I have a very nice summer ahead of me, and a good half a year to prepare and get my stuff together. July is also the month Apotize.com was made, making this month this website’s birth month =) Happy early 2nd birthday Apotize.com, and may you, the readers, keep doing what you do best. You’re what makes this website popular.

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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