Description: Following Buzzfeed articles in terms of colors, format, and writing style, this manifesto informs viewers of the top 10 things to take advantage of when playing Kingdom Hearts 3 and helps players get the most out of their experience. Each point covers both positive and negative aspects of the game so that players will have realistic expectations.
Description: This fictional wedding website is a parody of both Game of Thrones and the wedding industry. Featuring the slaughtered Robb and Talisa Stark for a wedding website highlights the frivolity of many of the customs of the wedding industry, particularly when viewed through the lens of the Game of Thrones storyworld.
Description: This manifesto is a general guide to Harry Potter fandom and applies interactions with fans and lessons from J.K. Rowling’s storyworld to the quotidian. “The 10 Precepts to Avoid Undesirability” is a brief guide to how we should treat one another. Each precept is modeled after one of the Ten Commandments and incorporates quotes from the Harry Potter novels.
Description: This manifesto is a visual representation of the ideals that drive the artist’s cognition on music and musical rhetoric as a radio DJ, CRDM student, and critical consumer of media. This manifesto compares multiple musical genres, styles, concepts, and creative platforms.
The Mona Lisa's Secret
By: Adam DeRoss
Assignment: Parody
Materials: Surface Pro 3, Print Tool Sai, Krita
Description: The Mona Lisa is highly regarded as one of the most iconic and mysterious pieces of art in existence. Parodies of the Mona Lisa that attempt to make her more interesting or portray her “secret” are not new. “The Mona Lisa’s Secret” contributes to existing parodies of the Mona Lisa. For the artist, there’s a grimy, goopy paint monster hiding underneath that smile
Superheroes Have Their Weaknesses Too
By: Petra Jurova
Assignment: Parody
Materials: Adobe Photoshop
Description: “Super Heroes Have Their Weaknesses Too” shows superheroes having the same hobbies and interests as ordinary people.
Materials: Microsoft Word, Rick Riordan’s The Red Pyramid (2010)
Description: “Book Backdrops” invites readers to consider the pedagogical foundations of “Book Backdrops” inside the classroom while proposing their ability to transcend the confines of formal academia. Rick Riordan’s The Red Pyramid invites readers to connect with this text/narrative, while “Book Backdrops” compels them to disconnect from and reconnect to the main text, and to conduct their own research on the corresponding artifacts, locations and myths.
