{"id":2043,"date":"2018-11-21T20:26:14","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T20:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/cc18\/?p=2043"},"modified":"2019-03-05T18:39:45","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T18:39:45","slug":"super-mario-clouds-research-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/cc18\/2018\/11\/21\/super-mario-clouds-research-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Mario Clouds Research Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Super Mario Clouds is an old Mario Brothers cartridge which the artist modified to erase everything but the clouds. The video quotes words from Michel Foucault: \u201cA day will come when, by means of similitude relayed indefinitely along the length of a series, the image itself, along with the name it bears, will lose its identity.\u201d This challenges the definition of authenticity in terms of art. The artist of Super Mario Clouds mentions that he did not touch the graphics from the original cartridge. So there is no generation loss and no \u201ccopying\u201d, because he \u201cdid not even have to make a copy\u201d. The color and shape of clouds are not exactly the same. This is interesting because it reminds people of Mario Brothers and yet is claimed to preserve its own originality. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">This video documents the history of Super Mario Clouds and demonstrates the results of the video creator\u2019s own attempt to \u201cerase everything but the clouds,\u201d a ROM hacking exercise that produces a different game altogether.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The video reminds me to be always aware of my final project\u2019s originality, while learning from similar projects as well. And I should always document my work truthfully so that people can gain an accurate understanding of my work.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Mario Clouds is an old Mario Brothers cartridge which the artist modified to erase everything but the clouds. The video quotes words from Michel Foucault: \u201cA day will come when, by means of similitude relayed indefinitely along the length of a series, the image itself, along with the name it bears, will lose its<a class=\"more-link button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/cc18\/2018\/11\/21\/super-mario-clouds-research-post\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-researchpost8"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paeb9f-wX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/cc18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/cc18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/cc18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/cc18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/cc18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/cc18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2044,"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/cc18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2043\/revisions\/2044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/cc18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/cc18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.courses.tegabrain.com\/cc18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}