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=Matt Stone =

Mathew Richard Stone was born in Houston, Texas on May 26th, 1971 and moved to Colorado at a young age. He attended //University of Colorado at Boulder// and double majored in mathematics and film. He is most recognizable for the famous cartoon TV show //South Park//, created by him self and his college friend Trey Parker. The cartoon //South Park// was not his first animated short film he had created. //He had several others including: Jesus vs. Frosty//, //Jesus vs. Santa//, and //Cannibal! The Musical// but, //Cannibal! The Musical// was not an animation, it was a movie. This was his most successful creation before //South Park,// He produced and acted in this movie//.// His most recent movie was //Team America: World Police// made in 2004. With his artistic style and the animation he does, he therefore was apart of pushing and changing the limits in what a cartoon TV show can and cannot show on public television. He helped re-define the cartoon genre by creating //South Park// because //South Park// pushes the limits every single episode, they literally make fun of all current topics. Most cartoon animations do not try to push the limits like //South Park// and a few other shows do. Matt Stone currently lives in Venice, California continuing with season 12 of //South Park.//





This is a screen shot of the episode number 508: Towlie. The original airdate was Aug. 8, 2001. In this episode towlie is actually a company made towel that the military wants. Towlie and the boys first meet, while the boys were getting their game sphere at the game store. Then the episode takes off from there. This screen shot was almost at the beginning when they first open their new system and are playing it for the first time. Towlie is a towel that likes to “get high” and is always saying “you wanna get high?” I believe that towlie, in a way, resembles the 20th century and the fight between the people and the government. Since he is made by a company, which the government is trying to control. In this episode, at the end, the boys and towlie sneak, for different reasons, back and forth from a government facility to the company that made towlie to try and get back there game sphere.

This screen shot is both, I believe, objective and subjective. First off it is a cartoon, so not everything is going to be objectively drawn but there is some kind of objectiveness to it. It is flat art work so there is no plastic space or anything that makes it more realistic. The room where they are looks like it has an objective feel to it. All the things in the room are real and do not have an abstract quality to them. All the little things add to it, from the donuts on the ground to the game system on the floor where they are sitting. When looking at this photo I can really believe that there are actually kids playing games like this. That’s another point of south park: hidden messages. The hidden messages are almost unmistakable for most of the episodes. Like here, they are saying that kids play video games a lot and kids are almost addicted to them.

Looking at this photo subjectively I can see that it’s not to “out there”. For example it’s not abstract at all or even trying to be abstract. But I do see that they have a towel, named towlie, which talks and tries to give the boys advise. This is where I believe South Park has a subjective feel to it when they do unrealistic things (which is all the time). This brings more dynamics to South Park being that they have no limit to what they can put into an episode. This shows that subjectively this show is off the charts with mind art and mind thought meanings throughout the episode. Almost every episode has a subjective feel to it because it is a cartoon so it’s not the most real art out there but it sure is the most creative and well thought out T.V. show/cartoon that I have ever watched in my life.

Matt Stone has contributed to the art world for more than one reason but mainly he has obviously started a new line of cartoons. There are lots of different types of cartoons from anime to claymation. South Park started off as pieces of paper collage to make the show. Now it is all done on the computer but now it is better. This line of cartoons is hard to come by and South Park is at the top of the list. So Matt Stone has made a significant contribution to the art world.

South Park has and will make people laugh, cry and think about life forever.

My interpretation of Matt Stone

Title: Basket Ball Love media: Chalk pastel and colored pencils dimensions: 18 X 24.5 Name: Noah Glasoe Date: May 4th, 2010

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