Johnny Cash Project

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The Johnny Cash project is created by over hundred thousands of contributors and their fascinating drawings. It is a form of immediacy as it turn Johnny Cash who was a real person into drawing and frames that are virtual and visual, by using various drawing techniques, texture, lighting and depth. The moving frames push the project to a next level as a form of hyper immediacy. The shift and movement of the figure combine to trick the viewer’s eyes to believe that the man is moving. On a larger scale, it has all kinds of remediation, as it turn the lyric and song into another form of musical performance, music video. Also, it is a remediation of Jonny Cash’s life, which includes all the good and bad things happened with his thoughts, believes

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