Life as Video Game Art

DoasFu writes "Screenshots is an odd art project depicting historical events in an isometric video game style, a la The Sims. Very strange."

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Re:What is what?

[cpt kangarooski]

"The Sound of Music"

Assassination of Martin Luther King (Memphis, Tennessee, 1968)

James Meredith shot by a sniper on US Highway 51 (Hernando, Mississippi, 1966)

General Nguyen Ngoc Loan shoots a Viet Cong prisioner during the Tet Offensive (Saigon, 1968)

Federal agents sieze Elian Gonzales (Miami, 2000)

Kim Phuc and other Vietnamese flee napalm (Trang Bang, Vietnam, 1972)

Bodies of Anna Nicole Smith and Ronald Goldman (Brentwood, California, 1994)

"The Godfather, Part II"

Jack Ruby murders Lee Harvey Oswald (Dallas, 1963)

"Twelve Angry Men"

Reginald Denny and Damian Williams (Los Angeles, 1992)

Rodney King beaten by LAPD officers (Los Angeles, 1991)

"Mary Poppins"

Quang Duc commits suicide to protest Vietnamese War (Saigon, 1963)

Theodore Kaczynski's cabin (Lincoln, Montana)

Car crash killing Diana Spencer and Dodi Fayed (Paris, 1997)

Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold at Columbine High School Cafeteria (Littleton, Colorado, 1999)

Anonymous man faces down tanks at Tiananmen Square (Beijing, 1989)

Civil Rights protesters attacked with fire hoses (Birmingham, Alabama, 1963)

Fence to which Matthew Shephard was left to die (Laramie, Wyoming, 1998)

Alternative Headline

[rkent]

...for this article:

ASU Art Student Seeks Credit For Playing Video Games

Unfortunately not

[rkent]

Unfortunately, the culprit in this case is much more insidious: public universities (specifically ASU, but I won't go into that because of where I live :). More likely than an NEA grant, this kid got a pell grant or some other public support to get his art degree, which he's apparently put to quite a good use already.

Then again, if you vote republican, maybe you can get rid of those pesky public schools, too, what with the voucher plan and all :) Go W!

It is kind of cool.

[Xzzy]

Pointing out the Martin Luther King one in specific, you can tell the "looks like a computer game" was just a gimmick to kind of tweak the emotions of the scene a little bit. In the same image, imperfections in the right angles help to keep it from being too "computery".

I do like the idea. Kind of a way to link bad stuff that happens in the world to computers. I wonder if the artist had some kind of underlying motivation to point out the (supposed) links between video games and violence in the world (physical or otherwise).

Can look at it two ways.. either these images point out that bad scenes aren't nearly so horrifying when done on a computer (and thus people need not worry about video game violence), or computers trivialize the reality of violence to the extent that it is unable to effect us like it should.

No further comments. :) 'Grats to the artist though.. pretty cool pieces he's done.