Escapist Media

In a world that is growing continuously nosier with benign stresses of the modern life piling up, we look for escape. Escape from our daily lives that have grown ever so mundane. Escape from the worries of future obligations and the thoughts that just can’t seem to stop flowing but server no useful purpose. Your life sucks. You know this, but yet you look to hide rather than to fight the problems at hand. Media is one of the greatest tools we have to hide from or decompress from our lives. Video games are my go to media when I no longer want to be in this world and that’s quite a bit. Specifically survival/crafting video games that can take you back to the true essence of what it meant to be human. Escaping from reality through video games has positive as well as negative effects on individual’s lives. For the positives you have, stress release and forgetting about your problems, living a different life and having a splendid time as well as time going by quickly. The negatives of this escape rout are, wasting time, not dealing with your problems, isolation (god and bad) and staying up way to late when you have school or work the next morning.

My favorite video game currently is called Ark Survival Evolved. It is a survival video game that puts you into a world with between 1-70 other real people. You can choose to work together or go at it alone and fight other players. Oh did I mention there are dinosaurs! What makes this game great for escape is the amount of time and dedication it takes to play it. This isn’t a game where you can do everything in 8 hours or less. I’ve put in over 300 hours and I still haven’t done everything. There is no set linear story in the game so everything is created by players leaving endless possibilities to what could happen. If anyone really wants to escape for a long long time, check this game out.

Escaping from reality has its perks but it must be done in moderation or everything that is good about it is lost. There’s nothing like coming home from a long day and taking out your stress on noobs. Killing other people in game is a great way to release anger because it is still directed at another human being but it is done in a way that isn’t harming anyone physically. Although putting someone in a cage and extract blood from their body while they beg to be let go could have scaring mental effects on the 12 year old German kid you are torturing. 

The greatest part about Ark as a use for escape is the fact that you get to be someone else. Its not like an adventure game where it tells you who your character is and what they HAVE to do. In ark it is all your choice. Want to build a great fortress? You can do that. Don’t want to tame a dino for three hours? You don’t have to. Want to create Guantanamo Bay and capture all the inhabitants of the island? Good luck with that. Ark is life. This allows for more creativity and freedom of expression resulting in longer hours played and in my opinion more stress relief!

As I said earlier, everything in moderation. If you spend too much time away from the real world it starts to affect you mentally. The problems or the stress that you chose to escape from become escalated and are harder to deal with. One of the biggest problems using video games or any media for that matter is a waste of time. It’s not a waste of time when your having fun of course but life isn’t all fun and games. Media hinders you from being productive. It is a very passive way to escape. This passivity if used too much puts our brains to sleep and lowers our drive to want to do a damn thing. There are more creative and active ways to escape from life such as art, poetry, exercise or learning for fun.

Not dealing with your problems and always looking for an escape is a weakness of character. It shows that you are scared and don’t have the ability, or the care to make things better. Video games and other media makes us ok with our problems and puts them on the back burner. This can be good sometimes because problems can be solved by the subconscious and will naturally work themselves out. But if you have serious physical problems to deal with escape is not always a good thing. Say you have bills you need to pay or your dog needs to go outside or your running out of food in your house. Escaping makes you forget about all these things and most problems won’t be solved until they reach the crisis state or your life just crumbles in front of your eyes. Take this blog for example; I’m doing it last minute!

Isolation is a slippery slope when it comes to video games as a form of escape. I love coming home from a long day and just being alone killing hundreds of dinos and people. Dat stress relief doe. When people are isolated for an abundance of time it gets harder to be comfortable in crowds of people and further drives the want to isolate. Ark has a flip side to this isolation as it is a team building game and almost forces you to interact with other people for help. Players use microphones in game to talk to others creating “friendships” and the feeling of not being alone when you physically. I’ve had times where my teammates aren’t on and I want to socialize but I have no one to talk too. Except for real life people but who needs real life when you live on an island full of wilderness and adventure. Who needs sleep and food when its not in a game? #wiredin

When used in an appropriate dosage video games and other medias are a great tool for escape. When used to much it has serious detrimental effects on your real life even more than your stresses did in the first place. Stay gamin’ and stay sane peoples.

Skateboarding Vs. The Corporate World

Skateboarding Vs. The Corporate World

            Every kid who grows up riding a skateboard everyday looks up to the guys they see in the videos, on TV; or especially in today’s culture, on the Internet. Although it may not seem like it, all of the skateboarders being filmed or photographed are role models to younger generation regardless of their level of skill. After 9 years, skateboarding as changed a lot since I started. It seemed as like skateboarding was just a cohesive unit, the only that mattered in skateboarding was skateboarding. Now it is very clear that there are two distinct sides: an authentic side versus an unauthentic side. The two factors that cause this debate to exist are the company ownership and the style of cinematography.

            In 2015, a company that really breaks the mold and really sticks out as an authentic company is Bronze 56K. Peter Sidlauskas started the brand in around 2011, as a hardware company with his friends who would just spray paint cheap bolts the color bronze. As a lot of other people, Peter was fed up with the direction where skateboarding was headed. In 2012, they dropped their first video named “***56K***”. He wanted to potentially make the worst video in skateboarding that would ban him from the industry, but fortunately enough for him it did the opposite. The video blew up and received really good feedback from the community. It got everyone hyped. It was so different but presented a more real, authentic aspect it the industry that skateboarding hasn’t seen before. Peter and the crew continued to make videos with this style and came out with a new one each year after ***SOLO JAZZ***, ***ENRON***, and ***TRUST***.

           

Something that makes Bronze so special business wise is its garage to glamor story. Its first priority is giving to skateboarding. The last thing on its list was to get wealthy. To this day, no one became “rich” from it. Bronze mainly became popular through the Internet. The way that most things become popular over the Internet is for it to be originally started just as a joke. They weren’t ever trying to “make it big” which goes hand and hand with the main message in skateboarding, the “who cares” “just have fun” attitude. Bronze did not start actually selling hardware and apparel until 2013, after they released ***SOLO JAZZ***, which really put their name on the map. Since they’re all from the New York City area, it was very necessary to a have a video premiere for the release. For the years coming after Bronze had a collaboration video with Palace Skateboard from England, and collaboration shoes, shirts, and hats with the well HUF Footwear, most notoriously know for their weed socks.

              The most distinct trait of the Bronze’s videos that make them different from every other skateboarding video is the way the video looks and sounds. Most of their videos are majority filmed in standard definition on the classic Sony VX1000. This camera has been used in skateboarding since 1995 and still makes a heavy presence in videos today. But Peter will still film in high definition as well, because let’s be real, sometimes you don’t always have your VX. It is very refreshing to have someone in skateboarding who does not care what it is filmed with. It is suppose to be a VX video but if some HD clips make their way in, it is really no big deal. Today, one of the biggest debates in skateboarding is HD vs. SD. Big corporation will want 4K, drones, and a huge budget. Skater owned companies would prefer a VX any day because it is much more true to the roots.

            The music used in a Bronze video is most likely something that you’ve never heard before. He’s not trying to an overdramatic hipster; it’s just original and sticks out as their own style. He shoots for songs with less than 10,000 views/plays. They are definitely some funky picks ranging from chopped and screwed rap, underground hip-hop, or vaporwave. The music fits very well with the choppy editing style. There is organization of songs and tricks like most skate videos. There is no “banger” at the end either, just good skating all through out. He often throws in clips of things in media that he grew up with such as television shows, video games, or scenes from 90’s basketball games. All of the edits feature a very junky 90’s vibe that really makes the brand unique, even though it is a giant copyright infringement but it is the first skateboarding company to really do that.

            The thing that is ruining the industry the most right now is large corporation companies “buying” skateboarding, such as Monster Energy, Zumiez and Nike. In some sense, people will say it is a good thing because it makes skateboarding well known, which is true but it is not providing the accurate images of skateboarding. It gives it a more mainstream look, taking away from the authenticity of the game. A study was conducted by a man named Dick Hebdige, about how this kind of thing happens to every other subculture out there. He focused a lot on the punk rock culture, which is similar to skateboarding culture, in the sense that they are both an underground scene with a rebellious, individual attitude with a strong community to back it. The punk rock style was bought up by big name mall stores such as Hot Topic, which attempted to portray that style, but was giving off an inaccurate perception. This was the same situation for surfers dealing with Pac Sun, but that store also took a stab at skateboarding too.

            Knowing that this corporate mainstreaming of subcultures has happened before for many other groups gives me great hope for skateboarding and helps me believe that its imagine will never be completely tarnished thanks to Bronze and other skater-owned powers.

Work Cited

http://www.vice.com/read/peter-sidlauskas-is-the-bizarro-king-of-lo-fi-skate-videos-235

http://www.jenkemmag.com/home/2014/08/04/an-interview-with-bronze-very-rare-mature-audience-18/

Photos:

http://www.acclaimmag.com/lifestyle/watch-bronze-solo-jazz/

http://www.flatspot.com/collections/bronze-56k

***56K***

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEDi5qSWf8s

***SOLO JAZZ***

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5WiJVz7pFY

***ENRON***

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmQJ6_g9p4A

***TRUST***

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dKOl9xX0lA&ebc=ANyPxKplIz0SRW8IlC-IImcHUWkCsDNFfDBqEB4Ai88HoLRh6yI8k1S59qPHC83J9kbUIiXDE_-P4kyTDmNjnOHKHozby6B4GA

Subculture – Hebdige

Hebdige, Dick. Subculture. Routledge, 2013. Print.

http://www.erikclabaugh.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/181899847-Subculture.pdf

The Effects Instagram has on Self-Confidence

Chelsea Banco

Mass Communication Theory

Blog 1

March 7, 2016

How has Instagram Affected our Self-Confidence?

Social media plays a huge role into how we project ourselves as well as how we perceive ourselves. We base our happiness off of how many likes we get to our posts and how many followers we have. However, what version of ourselves are we putting out there? We have become programmed to put only the best version of our self out into the world. For example Instagram, we take a picture of us doing something very fun and then edit it to “perfection”. We then wait patiently to see how many likes we acquire over time. We post the “ideal version of ourselves” in hopes to be liked by the people that follow us. But this isn’t the real version of ourselves, it’s the fake version. In the article How Social Media Affects our Self-Perception by Kelsey Sunstrum, she talks a lot about a “smiling depression”. This is used to describe how people are depressed but do not appear to be in their social media world. “We are conditioned to project only our best, albeit unrealistic, selves on our social media profiles as a modern way of virtually keeping up with the Joneses” (Sunstrum, 1). In America today, 6.7 percent of the population over the age of 18 suffer from a form of major depression. Or in this case, putting only the half-truth onto social media and making it look like you are living a happy and healthy life. The amount of pressure being put on us to keep up with our unrealistic lives can get tiring and even overwhelming. “The pressure, with the right filter, wearing the right outfit, at the right place, with the right people was too much pressure” (Sunstrum, 1).

This is a very concerning topic and not one we should think lightly about. Fifteen years ago, this would not even be a thought in people’s minds. But with the rapid growth in technology, leading us to social media, more and more issues come with the change in times. This is why it is important to be able to see the signs before falling into societies media trap. This is why you need this handbook to help you look for the flaws in todays society and how to avoid it. The key topics you should be looking for are; the way that women are being portrayed through media in a vulgar and degrading sense, how Photoshop is used and if its real or fake, and social media’s way of creating a smiling depression. Staying away from all of this is tough when they are constantly surrounding us in newsstands, media on television, or on social media. Therefore, avoiding buying their products can help to reduce the negativity being spread. Avoiding buying products from companies that use false advertising and degrading pictures of women. By taking a look at your use of social media in hopes to start spreading natural beauty and creating a healthier version of you.

In todays day and age, how can we even tell if someone is posting a real picture vs enhanced picture? Natural beauty has almost become a thing of the past. This can be shown through Photoshop used in advertisements. This is a real world example based off of celebrities and how they dealt with Photoshop. New York Daily came out with an article where popular singer, Lorde, states, “flaws are ok” in response to a magazine that photo-shopped her face. “Apart from the fact that I’m pretty sure this magazine gave me a new nose”. She believes that real beauty is what is important and that it is all right to have flaws. The famous Beyonce and H&M battle is one that hit the media very strong. Beyonce did a campaign for H&M’s s2013 summer collection. H&M had the photos photo-shopped and Beyonce forced them to use the originals. Lady Gaga was given an award at Glamours 2013 Women of the Year Award where she spoke out about her dissatisfaction on a photo of her that was photo-shopped. “It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers… when the cover change that’s when culture changes” according to the Huffington post.

Instagram has become a major part in today’s society. Some people don’t think this is a big deal or that it isn’t an issue that needs to be discussed however the use of social media and specifically Instagram is becoming more of a problem as time goes on.  Just a decade ago social media was just a fun pastime that people did when they had nothing else to do or if they wanted to stay in touch after school, but today it has evolved to a part of life. Today it will be hard to find a girl that doesn’t post at least one picture on Instagram per week and that is low compared to most users. People will stop and take pictures of almost anything from food to being at the gym. With food in mind, Instagram is not only effecting the users, but also restaurants. There are studies that show that before Instagram, people would be able to come into a restaurant, get an appetizer, order their food and then be out within a thirty to forty-five minute window. Thanks to social media, this window has almost doubled because people will now get to the restaurant, socialize and post to social media that they are eating out which slows down the decision making process for what food and drinks will be ordered. Once the food has been brought out, everyone then has to stop, take pictures of their food, post the picture on Instagram, and finally make sure that enough people like the photo or else it must be deleted.

            This brings me to another big issue that is starting to surface due to social media and specifically Instagram. Confidence in general is a huge focus area for teens and especially female teens. Social media and Instagram are also making it tougher for these teens to have confidence. While scrolling through Instagram, there are “Instagram Celebrities” which are people that are very photogenic and that get a lot of followers and likes on their pictures. They tend to be skinny and very good looking and icons to teens. This poses a huge problem in terms of how women are suppose to look and weigh. These models put pounds of make-up on and use technology in order to look the way they do which makes it virtually impossible to for “normal” teens to look like the “Instagram Celebrities” and in turn starts to diminish teens confidence and identity. Another big issue that is arising is that people in general are relying on how many likes they get per picture to feel good about themselves. If someone posts a picture and they get over one hundred likes, they will have a huge confidence boost. However, if they do not get many likes or if they do not get enough likes quick enough they will become upset or even delete the picture itself. Girls especially are getting so hung up on this fad that it is also affecting their relationships with their friends. If for example someone posts a picture and their friend doesn’t like it, they will get mad at their friend for something that shouldn’t be taken to heart as much as it is.

            All in all, social media has become a part of our everyday lives. This can be taken in a good and bad way but I can see this becoming a larger problem in the future. People need to stop focusing so heavily on posting the right insta with the right people in the right time and the right place. This constant need for attention will cause increased amounts of anxiety as well as self-doubt. Instagram is the fad for now, I can only imagine what will come next. But hopefully people will start to realize that “likes” mean nothing in the grand scheme of life.

2Pac "Changes" Blog Post #1

3/7/16           Mathew Galvao

Blog Post #1

Music has had a tremendous impact on society as a whole. Artists have a tremendous amount of power in what they are able to portray to the world through their music. In the 90’s hip-hop was a way getting the word about topics they felt were prevalent at the time. When you look at the body of Americans. They try and promote equality through their lyrics and promote a sort of change through music. This song is talking about how the songwriter 2Pac feels that back in this time racism was really big and he wanted to make sure that he spoke out about change

The song that seems the best fit for hip hop promoting change back then is the song “Changes” by 2Pac. This song really dives deep into the world back then and how 2Pac wants to promote change with the topics he discusses throughout the song. During the song 2Pac discusses the world around him and how he feels things need to change. In the song there’s a lyric, “I'm tired of bein' poor and even worse I'm black.” In this line he says that being african american was worse than being poor because he is african american. In this era he felt that being colored was something that was seen as lower than everything else. The song also goes onto say, “I see no changes. All I see is racist faces. Misplaced hate makes disgrace to races we under. I wonder what it takes to make this one better place… let's erase the wasted.” 2Pac is describing his displeasure with society being racist towards African Americans. He explains how he feels the hate towards African Americans seems to be “misplaced” or really without reason and he’s not sure why it is that way.

The song really does tell a tale about a man (2Pac) and his struggle with the way the world works in his time which was back in the 90’s. He looks around and sees violence towards African americans and hate from the people outside and how things could be so much better in the world if people changed the way they acted towards one another.

The song “Changes” definitely discusses certain stereotypes like African Americans selling drugs, “Give the crack to the kids who the hell cares? One less hungry mouth on the welfare.” That line also gives the stereotype of African Americans living off of government assistance. The song talks about the stereotype of African Americans not usually having things that are worth a great deal of money. Back in the 90’s cell phones were just coming into the world and 2Pac talks about people looking at him weird for having a cell phone with him. “They get jealous when they see ya with ya mobile phone.” Throughout the song 2Pac discusses different stereotypes during this song.

A lot of the themes that emerge throughout the song really is just racism. It’s really what this song is all about. 2Pac wants people to recognize what is going on in the world around them with racism towards African Americans. There really isn’t any other theme in the story other than the fact that racism was a very big topic at the time this song was written. 

"Minorities in particular perceive any degrading, restricting, or harassing practice as objectionable (Reiss, 1968), and a number of studies provide evidence that the police disproportionately employ these practices against them. For example, the use of abusive language, including racial slurs (Anderson, 1990; Skolnick, 1975; Westley, 1953,1970), the incidence of field interrogations (Bogomolny, 1976), and the likelihood of being frisked or searched (Black and Reiss, 1967; Piliavin and Briar, 1964; U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1970) have been related to race." (345)

This seems to be something to look into. When you see these types of incidents in the news many of them seem to be geared towards people who are minorities. I think it may not be on purpose but it something that could definitely be looked at.

Racism in 1995 according to cnn.com was thought to be of a problem by many people. "In 1995, on the heels of the O.J. Simpson trial and just a few years after the Rodney King case surged into the spotlight, 41% of Americans described racism as "a big problem." 
The song "Changes" was a cry out for help from 2Pac and definitely had much relevance at the time and still does today. He wanted us to make changes to our lives and to be better people and I think we have done that but we sill have some work to do to get to what he explains in his song. 

                                                         Works Cited

Schoichet, Catherine E. "Racism Is a 'big Problem' to More Americans, Poll Finds." CNN. Cable News Network, n.d. Web. 07 Mar. 2016. <http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/24/us/racism-problem-cnn-kff-poll/>. 

"Changes" 2Pac Song 

Holmes, Malcolm D. MINORITY THREAT AND POLICE BRUTALITY: DETERMINANTS OF CIVIL RIGHTS CRIMINAL COMPLAINTS IN U.S. MUNICIPALITIES MALCOLM D. HOLMES

A New Body Image for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition

 A New Body Image for Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition

By Dee Roberts

Cheryl, Elle, Tyra, Heidi, and Christie. These are just some of the iconic women that have graced the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition through the years. Looking through the 54 covers, it did not shock me how unalike the covers were in the sixties and seventies as opposed to the past ten years. Since the original Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition cover debuted in 1964, the covers have gotten more provocative and the models have become slimmer, validating the idea that in order for women to be desirable in today’s culture you have to have a small fit and firm figure with just the right amount of curves. However this year, something different happened. It was not a Hannah Davis or Irina Shayk cover. Sports Illustrated did something they had never done before and displayed three Cover Models. What was so groundbreaking about this announcement? These three women were representing all different body shapes, not just one.   This version of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition displaying three different cover models of different shapes and sizes demonstrates how our culture is making strides to lower the high standard for women’s bodies.

                          

(1970 Cover Model Cheryl Tiegs and 2015 cover model Hannah Davis (Time.com))

The 2016 Cover Models include: UFC fighter Ronda Rousey, model Ashley Graham and model Hailey Clauson. Due to the fact that Ashley Graham is categorized as a plus size model and had only been featured in the magazine in an advertisement the previous year, drew the publication the most buzz. The magazine’s Assistant Managing Editor MJ Day came out with a statement explaining that, “the three covers of Hailey, Ronda and Ashley celebrate the SI Swimsuit. All three women are beautiful, sexy and strong. Beauty is not cookie cutter. Beauty is not one size fits all. Beauty is all around us and that became especially obvious to me while shooting and editing this year’s issue” (Sports Illustrated, 1).

                       

(2016 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Cover Models (SportsIllustrated.com))

Typically when we think of Sports Illustrated we think of the picture perfect models who have the ideal bodies that young girls and women aspire to have. It has been magazine’s like The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition that imbeds this idea in not only the minds of women, but in the minds of men as well that this is what desirable women should look like. In Susan Bordo’s “Reading the Slender Body”, she discusses how we are exposed to homogenizing imagery, meaning that everything looks the same therefore we begin to believe that is the norm (Bordo).

According to About-Face, an organization that equips women and girls with tools to understand and resist harmful media messages that affect their self-esteem and body images, defines body image as the way we perceive our own bodies and the way we assume other people perceive us (About-Face,1). Television, movies, and advertisements use attractive and thin women to represent what we should look like and to represent what men are most attracted to. Constantly seeing one body type representing the ideal and desired body for women causes anyone who strays from that norm to feel as though they do not belong. Again referencing “Reading the Slender Body,” Susan Bordo goes onto state that, “Indeed, such preoccupation may function as one of the most powerful normalizing mechanisms of our century, insuring the production of self-monitoring and self-disciplining  ‘docile bodies’ sensitive to any departure from social norms…” (Bordo, 186).  This ideology that in order to be attractive or desirable to men we have to look like the girl on TV has caused women of all ages to put an extensive amount of pressure on ourselves to try become this ideal women when in reality the standard we have today is unattainable. Truths about the type of pressure reveal in regards to trying to fit the “norm” inlcude that, “the average size of the idealized women has stabilized at 13-19% below healthy weight, and that the thin ideal is unachievable for most women and likely to lead to feelings of self-devaluation, depression and helplessness” (About-Face, 1).

The media is constantly enforcing that in order for women to be beautiful we must fit the mold that they have shaped for us, however over time as a culture we have began to try and stray from this norm that the media has tried to enforce. The 2016 cover of The Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition is just one of the steps our culture is taking.  After releasing the covers, the positive response was overpowering. Celebrities and previous Sports Illustrated Swimsuit models took to twitter to show their support and across the country people were applauding over Cover Model Ashley Graham because now, women of every shape and size are being represented. It is no longer a one size fits all game.

                          

(Various tweets in response to the 2016 SI Swimsuit Cover (Twitter))

           

This is a pivotal time for the women’s body image and the shift that will hopefully occur. The release of these covers will inform more people about the body image campaigns surrounding the female body type. Specifically Lane Bryant’s, “#ThisBody” campaign because their spokes model is the groundbreaking, Ashley Graham. #ThisBody campaign focuses on body positivity and inclusivity. The company is breaking stereotypes women face and Lane Bryant’s CEO Linda Heasley stated, “Today’s 'This Body' campaign cites the conversation as overdue, unavoidable, and a rapidly progressing cultural revolution, and allows Lane Bryant to continue to be a platform for shifting perception. This campaign continues a provocative manifesto to remind the world what we stand for...”(Black, 1).

                           

(#ThisBody Campaign (Refinery29.com))

The change we need to occur, is the high standard set for women’s bodies and the body shaming and poor body image that stems from that. This type of change is not something we will see over night, but with time I believe this change will happen. Sports Illustrated exemplifying that there is more than just one body type that can be on the cover of a swimsuit magazine and still be recognized as beautiful, is a step in the right direction. Moving forward, I hope more magazines and sources of media recognize the need for more body types to be displayed and the critical impact it can have on women and girls who struggle with body shaming and body image.

Bibliography

"Ronda Rousey, Ashley Graham & Hailey Clauson Each Score a SI Swimsuit 2016 Cover!" History in the Making:. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Mar. 2016.

Bordo, Susan. Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body. Berkeley: U of California, 1993. Print.

"Body Image | About-Face." AboutFace Body Image Comments. N.p., 11 Aug. 2011. Web. 07 Mar. 2016.

Black, Liz. "5 Plus-Size Models On Why They Love Their Bodies." Refinery29. N.p., n.d. Web. 07 Mar. 2016.

"Tyra Banks, Iskra Lawrence and More Twitter Reactions to Sports Illustrated's Groundbreaking Cover Stars." PEOPLE.com. N.p., 14 Feb. 2016. Web. 07 Mar. 2016.