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Performance Protest

Our protest was against the chemical compound dihydrogen monoxide.  Unfortunatly the movie software I used leaves a water mark unless you buy it, but it doesn’t tell you that until after you are done editing.

Link to video

Link to silent video without the water mark

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Historic Event

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Thomas Nast is known as the “Father the of American Cartoon.”  He used his imagery to protest the political corruption happening during the late 1800’s.  This image depicts the infamous Boss Tweed.  Tweed was the ruler of a political machine from Tammany Hall that cost the city of New York millions.  He slandered money by inflating expenses from projects and then pocketed the money.  This was not uncommon at the time.  The image was a wood carving print, published in the Harper’s Weekly.

My image is one of the King Alfred statue in the same pose as Tweed.  There is considerable debate in America concerning the cost of tuition and how many students graduate college with thousands in debt and no job.  My cartoon is a pen sketch that was then copied.  I thought this method was appropriate because Nat’s image would have been designed one time in the typical cartoon creating method of the time and then mass produced.  Pen has become the common cartoon making device and then it can be copied and mass produced.  Since I didn’t have time to actually get my image in the paper, I took old Alfred Sun issues and pasted my cartoon on the cover and then deposited the news paper around campus.

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