The We Agree Ads

       The Yes Men used Chevron’s advertising idea and exaggerate the fact. In the original version of the “we agree”, Chevron used several print ads to make an interactive advertisement. On their site, these print ads are designed as vote print ads. They build this kind of system in order to show the amount of the people who agree with the concept they’ve put on their print ads.

       On the other hand, Yes Men used the same idea of “We Agree”. But the difference is that Yes Men used larger print ads and the photos they used are more related to the problems that the oil or oil companies had brought to the environment and people. In the Yes Men version of We Agree, the theme is more obvious than the original version. And for the photos these different two versions had under or beside the print ad, Chevron used people’s faces to show that they are a company that like common “people”, and for the Yes Men’s ad, they also used people’s faces, but they used photos that combines people’s faces with the environment with the problems that brought by the oil and the oil company. So in the Yes Men version of the We Agree, they exaggerate the fact rather than the data of who agree with the concept. The most important thing of the Yes Men version is the signature of Rex Northen (Executive Director, Cleantech Open) and Desmond King (president of Chevron Technology Ventures) with a big stamp of “We Agree”. This made the ad more powerful and believable than Chevron’s original version. So at this point, Yes Men made the “fake” We Agree more powerful than the original version, and they made it ironic.

Isn't that unfair?

    Chapter 3 from Lawrence Lessig’s Free Culture mainly talked about a case of Jesse Jordan, who was sued by RIAA because of the Copyright law. RIAA charge a large amount of money form Jesse, because they thought Jesse broke the Copyright law.

    Jesse built a search engine himself and shared data with other students and faculties of the RPI community. The files Jesse had for sharing were photos, copies of research and other things the users of RPI made available in a public folder of their computer. In other words, what Jesse had done was fixed a bug of Windows file sharing program and use the pre-existed searching engine for file sharing on campus. So in my opinion, this is not something can be considered as breaking the Copyright law and it was insane to charge Jesse that large amount of money.

    As we can see, the resources of Jesse’s search engine were from other people’s public files and they have to made these things available or other people of the community may not be able to access these files. So, at this point, it means that the owner of the files had already agreed to share with other members.  This was all about providing and sharing resources. The most ironic thing was that the two out of three students who against Jesse were from other universities. So from my perspective, this case was totally unfair for Jesse.

Remix-Video

Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=869TH8yEN4s

Here is the video.
For this video, I did it from the first-person perspective. The character in this video is a dolphin.
The first parts of this video shows how wild dolphins are living in the ocean, and the second part of the video shows the last scene of this dolphin's life.
In this video, I used words to guess what dolphins are feeling from a human's view. At this point, I hope that my audiences can feel the same way as the dolphin in the video, and also think that what if we are those dolphins, what we would do, what we would feel. These things are all aimed at rising an awareness and having a sympathy of not only dolphins but also other wild lives in this world.

Sources:
The water turns to red
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvhXyK8W10E

What If I told you Dolphins were going extinct?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-9x6msiKho&feature=fvsr

Swimming with Dolphins-BBC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_o69kwicAk&feature=fvw

Mufasa's Death Again (With intense music)   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkcJrW65xjI

Enya-Orinoco Flow

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlXKGh_PqYE&p=A9835C7AC04CF36E&index=35&feature=BF

Remix-Picture

     These two remix pictures shows the relationship between human and animals. The theme of this remix project is rise the awareness to protect animals and stop killing animals for their fur or other parts of their bodies.
    For the first picture, I chose some kinds of a collage style and make it looks like a family photo board. The photos on the board, not all but most of them have their story. So the aim of the first picture is to show that human and animals are a family that can help each other while the other is in danger.
    The second one combined 70 photos of how human is killing animals or abuse animals for medical or cosmetics tests. The red color is the main color, because all these acts are bloody and cruel. The big "stop!" above the red background means that we should do something to stop these cruel actions to protect animals because they are not only our neighbor or friends but also our family on the Earth.

Sources:
For the sources of the second one, since 70 photos is a lot, I will upload my combined work here.

http://www.decipheringlife.com/theme-pages/humans_and_animal_connection.htm

David Hoffos, Scenes from the house dream

      The exhibition of David Hoffos in MOCCA is pretty impressive. David Hoffos, a contemporary Canadian artist, is widely recognized for unique illusionist installations. His works in the exhibition in MOCCA are somehow a little bit crappy but still interesting.

      Most of his works has an interior environment and one or two glass broads. He used many old TV screens to make the images of people and other things like curtains in the interior environment. As long as I knew, making a image in an environment look 3D would probably need several projectors to build a light body for the image, but in this exhibition, David Hoffos just used TV screens and glass broads to make the images look like they are 3D. We found that the image was projected by the TV screen to the glass broad and the images on the TV screen are short videos of either human or other things we can find in our lives.

      Since the images are coming from the TV screen, the whole interior looks pretty crappy because of the colors of the image (mostly, blue and white). Although there are more equipment we can use to make a 3D image in such an interior space, David Hoffos still chose an easy way to show the image, but hard way to think about.

Remix Theme & Inspirations

      For the Remix theme, I’m not 100% sure about what to do for now, but I do feel that I want to make something that is related to “wildlife conservation”. I know this is an old theme, but since the day I watched “The Cove”, I was totally shocked. So I might do something that related to this theme.

     And I also have another idea that is greatly related to the improvement of the image quality of games.

For the inspiration, Erik Johansson is one of my inspirations for this project. The combination of two different objects is the technique that I want to use in my own project, and I found that Erik Johansson uses the technique make things interesting and also make people think about the theme and the emotion he wanted to express.

     Another inspiration would be Ricardo Salamanca. The idea of a bear wearing a bear costume in the circus is an inspiration of the animal protection.