response 10: Arcangel and Bell-Smith

Arcangel's Superman Clouds brought me back to my childhood: watching my brother play his videogames, getting beat by my brother playing those games. It was very nostalgic trying to remember how the game looked like without all the three-dimensional images involved in videogames nowadays. It shows how much our society, and not just ours but others as well, emphasize the evolution of technology in everything, even activities such as videogames. We have to completely "one up" ourselves from the decade before. Now videogames such as the Wii have sensors that allow the gamer to be physically involved in the game. It's actually fascinating how we are so close to making the figures more real and life-like, and scary how maybe one day we'll be able to play games that actually cross the reality/fantasy threshold. We could possibly virtually kill people like in the Matrix. But overall I liked his work because of the nostalgia it brought, all-the-while bringing out important issues of technology of our time and in the future.

Bell-Smiths's Trapped in the Closet All at Once suprised me because I had no idea it was going to be R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet. It interested me right away just because it was a series of videos that I knew of before watching it. It was actually really cool listening to how he harmonized with his own voice. It was all jumbled yet it was all together at the same time. I could not really listen to all of the songs at the same time and understand it, but trying to listen to just one song didn't seem right. It just wouldn't go with the concept of the video, not unless I tried to match the different songs with their video counterpart. It would be confusing to do that anyway. It is a little confusing at first but it still fits all together because the of the way the music ties the songs together. So it is different from Boomerang and the other videos we've watched that have altered our senses, and it is in a slightly better way in that it is sometimes pleasing to the ear.