Machinima and photoshop fun times

In the chaper "Quentin Tarantino's Star Wars" of Convergence Culture Jenkins discusses the new form of fan made movies known as Machinima which is fan made video produced using video games. According to Jenkins book the genre fist appeared with the release of Doom in 1993. Machinima has become extremely popular among fans of the video game Halo. Many Halo machinima Halo videos can be found on YouTube and other video sites, a popular series being red vs blue. One of my favorite Halo Machinima series is "Master Chief Sucks at Halo"

The series uses scenes from the actual game, and Halo action figures. The basic premise of the series is about a Halo action figure who likes to play Halo but sucks at it, hence the name. The series typifies the combination of various materials described in Jenkins book, in reference to Star Wars fan fiction "The amateur filmmakers often make use of commercially available costumes and props, sample music from the soundtrack album and sounds of Star Wars videos or computer games" -(146)
In "Master Chief sucks at Halo", the main protagonist of the story is a Master Chief action figure, who is voiced by Microsoft Sam, who you may also know as "Your computers default vooice" and the scenes are largely recorded from the Halo video game with music mainly from the Halo series though sometimes sampled from other assorted sources.

For the second part of my post, i typed in political photoshop into google and chose the most amusing result

Obviously a major intent of this photoshop i humor. On a more serious level, if it is possible to have to on a picture like this, the image represents the incompatibility of Obama and Hillary Clinton and could be seen as a argument against Obama choosing her as vice president. This photoshoppery falls into the category of blunt images which Jenkins lists examples of on page 221 such as a picture of Bush's face morphed into Hitler or Kerry morphed into Herman Munster. While the image itself doesnt get people to think much deeper than "i would hate to have to see that thing on TV all the time", the hideous visual combination of Obama and Hillary might get people thinking about how a actual combination of the two on the Democratic party platform would not work as the candidates have such conflicting personalities and views on some issues.