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Friday, July 10, 2009

reality shows are the new Shakespearean play

"If only life were like 'The idiot' or 'The Brothers Karamazov,' and everybody went about turning out their inmost hearts at the tops of their voices!" -- Galsworthy (133) I have something of a headache after watching Kenneth Branagh's HAMLET, reading both the words at the bottom of the screen and watching the action above. Funny, but I didn't realize until now how HAMLET compares to the quote above. It is the fact that Shakespeare's characters so often speak their mind (and at that, in very heated decimals) about their feelings or thoughts at any particular moment, usually when no one is about, that makes his plays a bit difficult to translate from stage to screen. Perhaps no Shakespeare play can be correctly produced for the screen without those moments when one thinks -- "Well, this does not quite work." Soliloquies are a bit jarring. Even, I would hazard, when seen on stage. None of us stop what we are doing at work or home in the middle of the day and exclaim out loud some very long and well rhymed speech. Exposing ones heart. I was thinking this form seen so literally in Shakespeare's play was dead. Perhaps movies express through action more than words what a character is feeling, but in real life we still have that need to explain ourselves and to be heard. Certainly, the reality shows of today thrive on self-expression. Big Brother and The Real World, two of the first, in which people are forced into what become overly dramatised social situations with others and then enter a small room, with only a camera, to talk, essential to themselves, about others, and their thoughts and feelings. So there we have it. Reality shows are the new Shakespearean plays. "O horrible, O horrible, most horrible!"

3:14 AM

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Thursday, July 09, 2009

2:00 am, London, a man cuts his hair
Category: Art and Photography

A young English man is cutting his hair on camera at 2:00 am in Trafalgar Square in London, while standing on a very high plinth (marble raised stage of sorts). From July 6th until October there will be a new person every hour for 24 hours, seven days a week doing this, and you can watch the action live, anywhere, here. There are people heckling the man right now. (Can't wait to see what the atmosphere is like at this time on a Saturday night). Two bobbies have the unfortunate duty of standing around the plinth. Bright lights illumine the "stage." One is hoisted to this precipice on a machine. Several cameras hung on the plinth show the people on the stage and the people around the area. It is all live, so there is a disclaimer that the site isn't responsible for untoward happenings.

Heckler: "Dude, why are you cutting your hair?"
"Well, I had a lot, but now I want less." -- "Is that a brass band over there?"
There is a jazzy band playing near the area, that you can hear. Everything is mic'ed. At 2:00 am. On a Wednesday night. A lot of traffic in the background, as though it is 2:00 in the afternoon, not 2:00 in "the dead of night." Horns blazing every once in a while. You can't see them, but you know when busses pass. Like any major city, London is a city that never sleeps.

Heckler: "Is that candy, man?"
"Yeah, I brought this to soothe hecklers."
Heckler: "I want yellow."
"I can't tell if this is yellow or something else."
Heckler 2: "I want green!"
"Green where, I can't see because of the lights." -- "I'm going to start some riot up here." As he throws the candy over the trampeeze like wiring surrounding the plinth so no participant jumps to their death.
Man on plinth: "What colour?" -- "Yellow, yeah?"
"Can I throw one back?
Man on plinth: "Has it been on the floor?" -- "I don't know what I'm going to do with it once you chuck it."
Man on plinth: "It's gone off the other edge. A weak catch. A weak throw actually." -- "Oh, they bounce, who knew?"
One man wants more. "But I threw you three jelly beans." -- "No, I haven't got a mirror." -- "You're not feeling very confident about my new look?"

"Tell us something true," another man asks him.
"I actually quite liked my hair. Is that a good look? I actually quite liked my hair," he say's louder for those who can't hear him. -- "That is true. All right."

Someone tells him thank you. "See, see, he's open to it. He likes it."

This is considered art. Post-modern art? I would say we're even beyond that now. Is this art? I don't know. But I think it is interesting, which all art should be. It has a decidedly reality T.V. component to it. Open venue for criticism. What daring it must take to go up there if you aren't the kinda person who likes to be on "stage" (hair cutting/jelly bean throwing man admits on his profile that he is terrified to do this) especially at 2:00 am when the only people out are club and pub crawlers.

One of the "audience" just caught a jelly bean in his mouth.

2:19 AM

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Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Craig Ferguson 5/18/9A Late Late Show OOPS beginning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ua1_Sx7N_I

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Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Snowy London
Current mood:

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Category: Travel and Places

snowy london pics

For all of you who are not at your wits end with snow, check out my pics. They're pretty and some are funny.

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Saturday, January 24, 2009

Twelfth Night with Derek Jacobi
Current mood:

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Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities

Check out my review and pictures of Derek Jacobi (one of the greatest British actors of the day) in Shakespeare's TWELFTH NIGHT.

And pictures of me.

TWELFTH NIGHT