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This is in reference to the events regarding the last few weeks, and specifically this week. Where I work just re-opened on Monday operating at half capacity, and I know I related to this as I enjoyed the time off. However, not all people have the luxury of enjoying the time off if they are living paycheck to paycheck and cannot afford this three or more week break, which is why it reads “privileged society.”
Social Meme: In this meme, I wanted to convey that there’s this conception that quarantine is supposed to be relaxing and minimizes social interaction. However, Zoom has become a routine for most Americans where our homes that were once considered our personal space have become our office and classroom.
Class Content Meme: In this meme, I drew from our reading from John Berger’s thoughts on publicity. More specially, I used the quote “Publicity is about social relations, not objects. Its promise is not of pleasure, but of happiness: happiness as judged from the outside of others. The happiness of being envied is glamour” to frame the idea of being stuck in this cycle of wanting to become the “best” version of ourselves but this goal is not meant to be achievable.
Détournement Meme: This meme was my détournement meme and I used Donald Trump’s and Bill Clinton’s Presidential Inauguration pictures. Here, I photoshopped Jeffery Epstein’s face into the picture because of their ties of being part of this trafficker’s global network of powerful men taking advantage of young girls. I tagged the meme with the slogan “All Great Men Think Alike” and subverted the meaning to become sarcastic to allude to the fact that many powerful men in politics had ties with Epstein.
For this gif I wanted to use the commonly known image of Marilyn Monroe’s dress going up. I surrounded her image with images of the Korean War which took place during the same time period as Marilyn Monroe’s popularity. I wanted to show how the media distracts us from the terrible things that are going on around us through sexuality and popularity.
Three Memes-
1. A social issue- this is my condensed and hopefully clarified version of the meme I showed in class last week. I wanted to express my frustration at people’s willful ignorance about gender in spite of the existence of a number of resources they could turn to for understanding, including real nonbinary people who they won’t listen to.
2. My class content meme- this is meant to reflect some of the ideas presented in Rushdie’s “Outside the Whale”. The meme features an otherwise self-assured teenager realizing a harsh or frightening reality- much like the ‘interested’ approach to consuming art and media causes us to realize the role it plays in enforcing oppressive social conditions.
3. My gif meme- this hopefully gives a sense of the state of seemingly constant anxiety driven by an influx of media, some of it accurate, some of it less so. Over it I included a popular joke made prior to the year 2020- “don’t ask me what I’ll be doing next year- I don’t have 2020 vision!” The joke seems especially ironic now considering that a handful of months ago nobody would have predicted the state the world is operating in today.
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Social Meme: Shortly before I created this meme I saw a video on twitter of Trump defending his definition of COVID-19 as the “Chinese Virus”. I chose this meme format because it’s often used to depict people who are refusing to accept fact or truth. In this case Trump is refusing to accept the fact that the term “Chinese Virus” is racist and offensive.
Class Content Meme: I based this on the quote from Rushdie’s essay, “I am recommending the ancient tradition of making as big a fuss... as noisy a complain about the world as is humanly possible. Where Orwell wished quietism, let there be rowdyism,” (Rushdie, 99). It depicts Rushdie making a wail, one that no one- not even and Orwell- can successfully block out.
Détournement: For this gif I took the famous “The Starry Night” painting by Vincent van Gogh and contrasted it with pictures of cityscapes clouded by smog and air pollution. I wanted to juxtapose the acclaimed beauty of the sky captured by van Gogh with what the sky has become due to air pollution. I added a quote by Theodore Roosevelt, “Keep your eyes on the stars and your feet on the ground.” This quote has many interpretations when associated with the pictures, but my main reasoning was to question how we can keep our eyes on the stars (dream of a future) when we can’t see one? (https://giphy.com/gifs/QVsAoeWeqUV89ieU7y)
This is my class content meme comparing the dialogue between Rushdie’s movement to “make a wail” and Orwell’s sense of safety inside the whale. This panel meme portrays the various stigmas that are placed on artists, when in reality, they are simply stressed about their impact and the quality of their work. (AKA me during this project :)
Meme #1: For my social meme I made this to show Trumps ignorance towards COVID-19, as I’m sure many of us have seen he continues to call it the “China Virus.” Although it’s true that it started in China, it is now a world wide crisis not just a Chinese crisis. In this meme China is the cat who is slightly confused and displeased. The woman holding back the first woman (Donald Trump in this case) represents the US Government as they are trying to calm him down and hold him back.
Meme #2: For the class meme I used something that we saw very recently which was the YouTube video that discussed why memes are considered art. In that video the YouTuber shared a definition by Leo Tolstoy about the activity of art, which I found to be hilariously accurate to what memes are. In this meme the top image represents a basic and boring statement, in the bottom image we see a fancy Winnie the Pooh making a fancy statement, which has the same meaning as the top one. So basic vs. classy ways to say you like memes.
Meme #3: For my detournement gif I decided to use Katsushika Hokusai's famous art work The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, but through the waves I placed garbage floating around. This is in reference to the Pacific Garbage Patch (which is close to Kanagawa) that has hurt a lot of the sea life, the garbage seen in the waves is actual garbage found in the PGP today.
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*above is the link to my detournement meme tumblr was not accepting the gif fro some reason.
1. The first one is a meme that relates to the in class reading on Debord and it is meant to extend his sentiments in regards to the role that media is playing in our lives. We are a society that is controlled in many ways by the media and what it wants us to put our attention towards and I feel that this meme exemplifies that. This was created in light of discovering that your computer can listen in on conversations you have and generate ads for you based off of that. This meme is more absurd in that but the exaggeration is whats meant to be funny.
2. This second meme is one of two I was torn between when we had done the meme critique but I ended up going with this one because my other one seemed to be a miss with the audience. This is my social meme which pokes fun at the panic that has been brought about by the global pandemic we are all facing. I find it odd personally that at my place of employment people are willing to fist fight over rolls of toilet paper considering the nature of the virus and the international guidelines that are in place such as social distancing. It almost seems that there panic is misplaced.
3. Lastly this meme is my detournement meme. it is from a snippet from the famous TV show the Office. This episode specifically is from the one where the loved character Micheal Scott leaves and does not appear in the series anymore. Pam chases down Micheal to say goodbye to him and they end up hugging each other in the original gif. However, I snipped the gif down to make it look like Micheal was stepping back as to say something along the lines of “don’t touch me” with his body language. This flips the original meaning of the gif on its head and the text that overlays it gives it context to our present day situation. it says “ when someone touches me at work instead of politely calling me from six feet away”. This shows kinda shows how it feels from an essential worker perspective when people put their own need in front of the safety of not only the employees but the community during this national emergency.
The original Mona Lisa is known for the smiling woman at the front, often leaving critiques of the background sparse, save for in art-centric circles. This is similar to how environmental issues are often overlooked by those who do not want to see it, and would rather shift focus to what they see as beautiful. To critique this perspective, I edited a video of a garbage dump, displaying all of the human waste collected there. The moving background against a static well known image draws the eye away from the foreground, in an attempt to remind the audience to look further into environmental pollution.
This is my Class Content meme. I made this meme to reflect the disinterested view of art in a humorous way. I find it an interesting concept that art should be beautiful in order to be art, especially as we review memes to be a form of art. I was inspired by the project itself in my execution of this meme and though it took a bit of a steep learning curve with Photoshop I enjoyed completing this section of the project.
The gif starts with Trump at one of his speeches and a sign welcoming people to America is overlaid. Next, a moment from one of Trumps rallies where a person was thrown out while Trump is telling his supporters to beat that person up is re-purposed to suggest that that it is directed towards foreigners. Finally, a flag with the quote “God bless America” finishes the gif off to poke fun at the idea that the United States is the best country in the world. (Final Image isnt shown in preview)
This meme uses the base template of Fancy Winnie the pooh to portray an idea from John Berger’s “Ways Of Seeing” where companies are able to steal a person’s identity via advertisements to make a person feel lacking and then use that sense of need to sell products.
This meme uses the base template of a scene from The Simpsons (An old TV show/cartoon) where a character knows hes in danger and is panicking (on the inside) right before disaster happens. This plays off of the social issues of COVID-19 where suddenly, any cough/sneeze/etc is seen as a potential infection case but because its not confirmed, people still act “normal” around that person.
Class content meme. Address the spectacle, and how we as a society are oblivious to the fact that our ideas are often clouded by the mass media and advertised glamor