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Posted in Class Projects on Apr 28th, 2010
I don’t want to preface this too much, but what I’m trying to show in this video is how, though The Sims 3 and Grand Theft Auto IV are similar in that they are ‘open and expressive’, they portray fundamentally different vision of ‘success’ and ‘the American Dream’. I tried to bring out the humor […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 17th, 2010
After reading Lessig and watching Rip!, I’m definitely thinking about some of my favorite examples of remix art in a different light. These two are both examples that occurred to me in the past week…sort of old favorites that I’ve remembered and I think about in a new light now. This first one is by […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 16th, 2010
In class on…I think Monday? We thought about whether we would consider ourselves “gamers”, and talked a bit about the role of video games in our lives. Now my initial reaction was, no, I am not a gamer. I have not spent a significant amount of time in college playing video games. But thinking back, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 10th, 2010
Just saw the 3 oclock showing of the Rip movie. Good stuff! I was worried at the start; it seemed a bit like a less-nuanced version of a lot of the material we’ve covered already. That “CopyRIGHT” and “CopyLEFT” business, for one, was pretty brazen and kinda oversimplified, I thought. Basically, he boiled every problem […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 8th, 2010
SPIEGEL: “…But why does Homer list all of those warriors and their ships if he knows that he can never name them all?… Why do we waste so much time trying to complete things that can’t be realistically completed?” Eco: “We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That’s why we like all […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 7th, 2010
Reading everyone’s posts, I think it’s hilarious how uninterested in it we all are so far. And I agree completely. It was a relief to exit the world after having to mess around on it for a while last night. Maybe my pictures will help to express my distaste. So I went to hang out […]
