The Smartest Man And The Highest Priest

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I had a real problem getting these pics up. Blogger wouldn't let me do it, and I'll be honest I cheated I have to admit it. The photo shop is done by a friend who really knows it, BUT the ideas are mine.

1. What is the purpose of the remix? I guess to see comedians in a new light,as real, intelligent critics of the times we live in.

The remix will circulate virally at first I think, youtube and other sites. the hopes would be that it make it into the mainstream via postcard, magazine, t shirt.

I believe I did repurpose the media text, and added value possibly culturally

Is it transformative? yes because through remix the meaning has changed. i wonder what the outcome would be if I denegrated the iconic figures, but I didn't I kept their value and made what could be read as equal or greater than the source figure images. That is a question I have is it fair use if I were to denegrate the idea of the source material? Does that matter?

The intended meaning is I consider George Carlin, or some comics as smart and as important as Einstein or the pope. There is a quiet fringe of people who might believe that, but with the remix I'd like to bring it to the forefront.

Technique and choices- i used Iconic figures against Carlin, to consider him just as Iconic, and I used a play on words, and of course the art of photo shop.

I believe the source image is fair use, that being Einstein and the pope