Bell-Smith Up And Away Essay

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Cory Arcangel exhibits a film called Super Mario Clouds, 2002. Arcangel hacked a cartridge of Super Mario Brothers, modified to erase everything but the clouds. It illustrates animated clouds from the game Super Mario which the clouds are gradually floating horizontally for a whole six minutes. In the next film Michael Bell-Smith, Up and Away, 2006 exhibits a multitude of colorful and animated sceneries which changed every second to seven minutes. Bell-Smith collected the beautiful and creative perspective from video games and created a slideshow with video game sound effect and calming beach music. Arcangel’s 2002 film demonstrates the iconic scrolling pixelated clouds with a beryl bright blue background. The white clouds were …show more content…

Their pieces are not original but they thought out of the box and created their own version. The differences between the two films were the scenery, the colors the artist used, sound and the way they were formatted. Bell-Smith used different saturated colors, while Arcangel used beryl blue and white. Bell-Smith’s film was primarily about different deep perspectives with calming beach sound, while Arcangel’s used animated scrolling clouds with no sound. Both were moving at a different pace, for example, Arcangel's work moved in a passive and quiet pace, while Bell-Smith moved high above and rapid. Arcangel's film is being portrayed horizontally, while Bell Smith portrayed vertically. Both of them had movement and energy because Arcangel's film reminds the individual playing the game and Mario’s characters jumping on the clouds, while Bell-Smith it took the individual to different scenes and parts of the world. For instance, I felt I was traveling around the world within seconds it didn’t give me time to analyze each compelling scene. Both artists brought me to a different world like if I was in the video game and it brought me back to my childhood when I use to play video games and yell at the screen because Mario will fall out from the

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