Combining machine cinema creates a new form of video art in which 3-D simulation made on computers with the use of mainly games found, a new kind of emerging videos are produced. Like in a regular production, games are mainly used to start a storyboard of movies, or series that play throughout the internet. Many games have already been made into a machinima, normally the most popular one at the time, like today where Second Life and World of Warcraft have become of the top games being played online while games like Doom and Halo are also used to create machinima.
I watched an episode of South Park once where the characters became so immersed in World of Warcraft that they stopped functioning as little boys and became fat and ugly. In the game world, they were fighting against a character who had the power to kill all other players and was basically killing the game. Cartman, Stan, Kenny, and Kyle joined together to fight off this super player and eventually defeated him in the game. the company Blizzard joined with the creators of South Park to create this episode of machinima where the WOW would combine with South Park's characters to create a spoof on the reality of playing WOW.
An average person can create their own machinima using programs to download the games they play and add their own voices to it to create their own videos.With the proper tools of downloading and create new information, the people who make machinima are hackers in a way. Take for example this video clip made by a group who makes machinima out of different types of games.
http://www.illclan.com/video/gamerGags320x240.mov
They add their own sequence of events into the video and their own voices, but include the game essentials like characters, weapons, and items normally found in online games.
Another famous machinima which has been made following the Halo games, is the show, Red vs. Blue-The Blood Gulch Chronicles. A comedic machinima depicting Halo's Master Chief and his comrades on various missions, each episode lasting only 5 minutes, the show was so popular, it is already in its second season.
The use of machinima is not only used to show videos, the History Channel aired a series called Decisive Battles where they reenacted the historic battles of the past through the use of a game called Rome-Total Warfare. They combined to show the battle scenes where they would show how the battles were fought and where. Like this episode of Hannibal vs. Roman army at the battle of Cannae.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=QSnIXBERXNg
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Soul Sonic Forces
Soul Sonic Forces- Technology, Orality, and Black Cultural Pratice in Rap Music
Soul Sonic Forces begins with the ideals and the many differences between Western music and Rap. In the beginning it talks about a music chariman who recognizes the art form of rap music but could not seem to tolerate it in his own home. This relates back to the authentication of art work, who gets the say in art and who gives art its own aura but the people who are supposed experts in the field.
Western music has been known as the moving point from where all sounds can come from. The harmony you hear from a musical piece compared to the rythems of rap is entirely different. Rap in itself is a form of art, the beats and the rythems dating back to African drum or war sounds. Repetition in the music in Western music has been hidden so that if sounds were reproduced, they would be done so with growth and accumulating popularity, while in rap, the beats were made to be repeated so they can grow in strength and power.
The new uses of technology has put music on a whole different level and the different ways you could make beats and rythems has been mainly the engineers job given to workers while the producers who made the music would say that the many beats and rythems were just the engineers playing with the machine or breaking it in someway.
The difference sin Western and Rap music is very different, it really is like the subculture which became the mass culture after awhile. The expression in rap let the oppressed blcak population give in to their feelings while the rest of society looked down upon them and anything that they might do. What society doesn't understand, it shuns, but soon society will eventually turn on itself and a new part of ideals and values will form from the many groups of subcultures.
Soul Sonic Forces begins with the ideals and the many differences between Western music and Rap. In the beginning it talks about a music chariman who recognizes the art form of rap music but could not seem to tolerate it in his own home. This relates back to the authentication of art work, who gets the say in art and who gives art its own aura but the people who are supposed experts in the field.
Western music has been known as the moving point from where all sounds can come from. The harmony you hear from a musical piece compared to the rythems of rap is entirely different. Rap in itself is a form of art, the beats and the rythems dating back to African drum or war sounds. Repetition in the music in Western music has been hidden so that if sounds were reproduced, they would be done so with growth and accumulating popularity, while in rap, the beats were made to be repeated so they can grow in strength and power.
The new uses of technology has put music on a whole different level and the different ways you could make beats and rythems has been mainly the engineers job given to workers while the producers who made the music would say that the many beats and rythems were just the engineers playing with the machine or breaking it in someway.
The difference sin Western and Rap music is very different, it really is like the subculture which became the mass culture after awhile. The expression in rap let the oppressed blcak population give in to their feelings while the rest of society looked down upon them and anything that they might do. What society doesn't understand, it shuns, but soon society will eventually turn on itself and a new part of ideals and values will form from the many groups of subcultures.
Saturday, September 22, 2007
On collecting art and culture
The first thing i noticed when i was reading this article was the way in which the author explained the need for society to be brought up in a world where possessions are to be collected and held onto. Collecting as he says is a new personal fetish in the Western world starting from childhood where the child brings together his favorite toys and puts them away secretly in a hiding spot. We are a society preoccupied with the property of others, and we like to show them off in displays in which they are looked at and categorized.
Clifford says that the "the notion that this gathering involves the accumulation of possessions, the idea that identitiy is a kind of wealth, is surely not universal", it only seems that Western culture has an effect which makes us gather the material world around us to make it ours. It strikes me as odd that since birth we've been taught what is ours to keep but yet we still have to share with others that it is indeed Ours. I feel like the phrase a "material world" holds true in the West, because really without our things, we'd basically be a nobody. We grew up with things and most likely we'd die with our things, but the fact that we Have things and we Own them makes all the difference in the world.
I believe the right is not ours to just take and label artifacts or art of any kind just to put a monetary value on it and display it for everyone to see and learn more about its origins. The idea of art is that its in a museum and its on display for all to see, culture is what is behind it and how the art was founded, but because we put it on display, we've already given it something of a comercial value. What makes artefacts authentic or inauthentic really is not up to us as a society but to the original meaning of artefact. The aestheticism of the arts has really just been enforcing the fact that institutions like museums and galleries are showing people what they would like, or perhaps leading up to the theft of the arts.
Culture really is being collected but studied intensively and because it is studied under such scrutiny but because anthropologists keep going out to different cultures to study them, they really are just letting the culture be tainted by the Western world, even if but a little bit. Mead wrote that many cultures have already been "badly missionized" and really then its not a unique culture but a new addition to ours.
When Claude Levi-Strauss visited New York, he was amazed at all the cultures that could be seen in just Manhatten alone. I live in NYC so i completely understand his amazement, everday in the city you could come face to face with just about any and all types of art and culture. NYC boasts such a wide array of different cultures and people that it becomes like a huge mesh of everything on every corner of the street. It really is just sad though because these cultures are seemingly fleeting and would soon die out to just another mesh into American culture.
Clifford says that the "the notion that this gathering involves the accumulation of possessions, the idea that identitiy is a kind of wealth, is surely not universal", it only seems that Western culture has an effect which makes us gather the material world around us to make it ours. It strikes me as odd that since birth we've been taught what is ours to keep but yet we still have to share with others that it is indeed Ours. I feel like the phrase a "material world" holds true in the West, because really without our things, we'd basically be a nobody. We grew up with things and most likely we'd die with our things, but the fact that we Have things and we Own them makes all the difference in the world.
I believe the right is not ours to just take and label artifacts or art of any kind just to put a monetary value on it and display it for everyone to see and learn more about its origins. The idea of art is that its in a museum and its on display for all to see, culture is what is behind it and how the art was founded, but because we put it on display, we've already given it something of a comercial value. What makes artefacts authentic or inauthentic really is not up to us as a society but to the original meaning of artefact. The aestheticism of the arts has really just been enforcing the fact that institutions like museums and galleries are showing people what they would like, or perhaps leading up to the theft of the arts.
Culture really is being collected but studied intensively and because it is studied under such scrutiny but because anthropologists keep going out to different cultures to study them, they really are just letting the culture be tainted by the Western world, even if but a little bit. Mead wrote that many cultures have already been "badly missionized" and really then its not a unique culture but a new addition to ours.
When Claude Levi-Strauss visited New York, he was amazed at all the cultures that could be seen in just Manhatten alone. I live in NYC so i completely understand his amazement, everday in the city you could come face to face with just about any and all types of art and culture. NYC boasts such a wide array of different cultures and people that it becomes like a huge mesh of everything on every corner of the street. It really is just sad though because these cultures are seemingly fleeting and would soon die out to just another mesh into American culture.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
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