Popular Culture Artifact.

      Popular Culture is a very broad term. It refers to anything that is popular or well known during any specific time. By definition, popular culture is the combined tastes of ordinary people, not the educated elite. Take today's pop culture, some of the most popular things today are shows like Game Of Thrones, Breaking Bad or The Walking Dead. Weather or not you like to be a part of pop culture, it is always relevant to you.

      In business, you need to know about what is trending. If you don't, you will be far behind your competition. I am going into the video game industry once I'm out of college and if I don't keep up on popular culture then I stand no chance. While it is not always the case, it helps to know what is popular and why. If certain mechanics in a game are becoming more and more popular, its probably because people like them. For example, the Batman: Arkam series combat system has been seen spreading to more and more games recently. It is an incredibly fun and responsive system. Of course, in the game industry you can't just take a mechanic and expect no one to call you out on it, you need to take it and change it a bit, make it yours through innovating it in some way. Shadow Of Mordor did this by making it seamless to transition between range and melee combat, making everything flow smoothly.

    A pop culture "artifact" is a symbol of something popular at the time. It is something most people will recognize on sight without being explained. Twitter, Facebook, Google, these are things everyone knows and can identify just based on their logos. I chose something that is still incredibly popular, but not quite as high as those. I went with the Heisenberg drawing from Breaking Bad. Breaking Bad was a massively popular show during its run and I still see people who are going back to watch it or just starting to watch it now that its all on Netflix. I chose this because Breaking Bad was huge to my friends, family and myself. The show was one of the most popular shows of all time and it has been referenced and parodied over and over again both in media like TV shows and commercials and on the internet on forums or art sites. It such a recognizable part of the show that I felt it makes for a good pop culture artifact.