Magazine

Tuesday some of my classmates and I brought in two different magazines, Rolling Stone and Snob, and made observations of the two.  One of the first things I noticed was that while Rolling Stone was in English Snob was published in Russian.  Another visual observation I made was that the covers were very similar. Although the people were different, Rolling Stone had Paul McCartney and Snob had a woman I didn't recognize, they were in nearly identical poses, with one of the only differences between them being that Paul was holding a small harmonica in his left hand, while she had a camera in the other.  After seeing more of the magazines I saw that both featured the arts in some way, although the kind of art did seem to vary a bit between them.

Looking through Rolling Stone, I could tell that the magazine was really for anyone who enjoyed some sort of popular music. While some genres such as classical were clearly lacking there was still a decent variety, including classic rock like The Who, The Beatles, and Van Halen, pop artists like LMFAO and even The Chieftans, an Irish folk band.  With Snob, there wasn't really anything that I could gather from the text since it was all in Russian, although I was able to view the photographs which were much more artistic than the photos in Rolling Stone. There even were some images of paintings.

Although there were some obvious differences between the two magazines, both in the text and images, there were still many that were the same or similar between them.  While the kinds of people who read them might be different culturally, it was clear that both groups had some interest in the arts.