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This is something I have noticed about myself for years now. Maybe a few of you have noticed it about yourselves:
Have you ever noticed that if you are hearing music from yer own collection, sometimes you can't decide what to hear and when you do pick something you find, sure enough it doesn't really grab you, but if you should hear that same song on the radio, it's grabs you a little more because the idea of someone else wanting to hear the same song you want to hear adds a little more mustard to the whole thing? The same goes for pictures/scenes of feet. How many of us look on here or elsewhere for great pics and clips of feet, and because there is such a massive load, we get to be selective and pick what we like and leave behind the ones we don't like, but if we should come across a foot pic in a magazine, or an advertisement, or a 3 second view on The View or Jay Leno, we have to post it on here and praise it? It's the same thing--the idea that someone else in the media or advertising world would put in hours of work to showcase feet or in the case of TV they choose not to edit out a scene involving feet leaving it in opened for closeups and comment from the world, is pretty awe inspiring.
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Sometimes I see that a certain movie is on TV and I think wow great, and I start to watch it - and then I realize it's been sitting on my shelf over there in DVD form but I never put it on. And some times I'll actually keep watching the rest of it - with commercial interruptions - because I know I'm sharing the experience with other viewers. Music is a collection of sounds, and pictures are visual info... The enjoyment comes from the meaning, and the meaning comes from some kind of social connectedness. When I see feet in mainstream media it makes me feel a little less marginalized and weird. I think foot lovers are everywhere, including people in the media, and they know there's a lot of us out here. So they share a little "in joke" with us from time to time to keep us tuned in, as well as for their own enjoyment. They're probably doing the same for other demographics that we wouldn't even notice. Putting in different things for different parts of the audience goes back at least as far as Shakespeare, with his "groundling jokes".
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