project 5 - interventionist media

Pope Francis is currently the 266th pope of the Catholic church, and is well known for being "with the times." Pope Francis actively uses twitter, and is a very liberal thinker in such that he believes in many contemporary ideas. He has spoken out about the importance of woman-involvement in the church, and that they have an important role when it comes to spreading faith; more ideas that he shows understanding for are unwed mothers, homosexuality, and abolishing the abuse of children.

The reason i chose him for this assignment is to make a parody of what it means for someone of his stature to be "with it" and using his twitter page was the best medium for me to use because majority of the social sphere today revolves around different media sites, and twitter just happens to be one of the biggest.

I changed Pope Francis into Pimp Frankie, and translated his tweets into ebonics.

This was not intended to offend anyone, simply because the use of slang can imply that someone is with the times. I also photoshopped Pope Francis' face onto Slick Rick's, for comedic effect...

I was challenged with this project because the idea of me offending someone kept popping up in my head, and that was something i had to kind of ignore in order to achieve what i wanted to.

I may have gone a little overboard, and it kind of looks like a lame parody account, but i think i can fix that by taming the background of this image a little better.

project 4: video reenactment

the video i chose to remake was done by John Baldessari, an american conceptual artist known for his photographic art. the video is titled: "Six Colorful Tales: From the Emotional Spectrum (women)" initially, the run time for the video is 17:10, so i took the first (and most uncomfortable) story from the video to remake.

the excerpt i chose is called "Caught Red Handed (Shelly)" and it was so bizarre to me that these women would just sit in front of a camera and tell random, yet pivotal, stories of their past to a man with a strange beard.

http://www.ubu.com/film/baldessari_six.html

my reenactment:

project 4: video reenactment (caught red handed) from Alexx Jaramillo on Vimeo.

Q for reading 3

The chapter explains that there is kind of a difference between video and film, this is because film has to be treated and processed, and video records and reveals instant time... But don't modern digital media artists who use video as their central medium process and essentially treat their footage as well? They use computer programs to edit and mix sound instead of doing it the original way where film is cut and and put together to make a scene.

So is the distinction between the film maker and the video maker, their use of innovation and idea?
Because this is confusing, many of the artists that are brought up in this chapter use film because it was the prominent way to record footage.