The17 - Music as we know it is dead; long live music.

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Yup.

And for the same reasons, poetry and dance are similarly dead.

A direct result of the digital age, these phoenix-like demises.



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Behind the Scenes :: Four-Minute Ballet for Faux Press Corps, Celebrities & Disposable Cameras

.:. Faux Press .:.

As titled.

It's a dinner party.

It's a parade.

An adventure.

It's the debut of the Faux Press.

It's a celebration of success.

It's a meditation on journalism, commerce, and celebrity.

It's honoring our gifts.

It's ritual.

It's dance.

It's a 'love action' - see Blow! Blow! Blow! for the definition of a 'love action'.

It's news.

Metaphrasty.

What in tarnation does this have to do with surviving depression?

Everything.

Music by Danny Payne.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v), Flash Video (.flv)

Tags: depression, surviving, healing, strategy, four-minute, ballet, behind, the, scenes, jan, mclaughlin, kevin, mccutcheon, plaza, hotel, richard, kostelanetz, judith, ross, sharon, oconnell, andrzej, steve, bennett, adam, merton, cooper, eran, lauren, moore, rie, yamaguci,

Publishing the World's Longest Open Love Letter :: Part I

.:. Faux Press .:.

"World's Longest Open Love Letter" publishing endeavors take unexpected turns.

More adventures in advertising. 

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v)

Tags: wloll, worlds longest open love letter, jan mclaughlin, art therapy, performance, publishing, alternatives, posters, advertising

Hotlinking Croma :: Revlog :: Tag

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Croma strikes.

Have watched this half a dozen times. Never fails to take me somewhere unexpected.

You're it.


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Media Ripple :: Pi Dance Theatre

Writing about old friends/collegues, come to find they have written about me.

Toni Taylor of Pi Dance Theatre writes a wee bit about our work together.

:)

From Toni's site:

The mission of Pi Dance Theatre is to build a creative community of individuals composed of the public, its¹ Board members, dancers, designers, visual artists, funders, and presenters using the works of Toni Taylor and the company¹s constituents as a catalyst to deepen our collective humanity via dance and other mediums to further expand the human conversation.

[Pi Dance Theatre :: History]



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Faux Press Vlog :: Yawn as Dance

.:. Faux Press .:.

Made you do it. Made you 'dance'. Insert silly grin.

"Olympic Fanfare" by the Canadian Scottish Regiment.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv), MPEG-4 Video (.m4v)

Tags: faux_press, yawn, dance, poem, metaphrasty

Something Beautiful :: My Favorite Film

Why a favorite?

• For introducing me to singer Little Jimmy Scott.
  
• For poetry.
  
• For Corrigan.
  
• For introducing me to D'Onofrio.
  
• For showing me parts of New York I did not heretofore know.
• For dance.
  
• Because Robert Sean Leonard was in "Dead Poets Society" and lived at 19 West 73rd Street, where I and my then-husband moved when Leonard moved out, because we were poets.
• Because the first words Vincent spoke to me - personally - were those of William Butler Yeats.

Robert asks us in a still photograph to "Say something beautiful..."

Today, I am in search of beauty. On a beauty mission. A nice lens to wear for the day.

Thanks again, Robert. Your presence here makes it all worth while.






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Ode to Spring :: The Waltz

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A short video poem.

Formats available: Quicktime (.mov)

Tags: videobloggingweek2007, waltz, spring, ode, poem, video, video poem, dance

Dances From the World's Longest Open Love Letter

Contemplating the structure of "The World's Longest Open Love Letter" as documentary.

Download the Quicktime version HERE.

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Documentary Film Making Tool :: Click TV :: Digital Workflow :: Interview Strategy

Did I mention Click.tv?

Yeah. I've mentioned 'em before.

Lanza's the guy.

The workflow has inspired me to collect the filmworks from "The World's Longest Open Love Letter", run 'em through Blip.tv and Click.tv and here @ the Blogger site. This will hopefully help to find the voiceovers in the text and timing of it. Notes.

Perhaps this is a way in which ad-hoc directors among you might be able to field questions for the interview footage that needs to be recorded to stitch the aggregated performance pieces into a cohesive filmwork. A documentary. An art documentary. The next major project that fills the days.

Wonder how this Click.tv flash interface will translate over at Mefeedia. Hmmm. If it translates, I can collect the films over there. In a Mefeedia Collection.

From the pespective of the documentary-as-healing and giving-backness.

Who wants to play?

Find I cannot ask myself the right questions.

Will you help me find the right questions?

Pretty please.

Don't make me beg.

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POST NOTE: Contacted Mike Lanza about the fact that there's a problem with something or other over at Click. He says they're on it.

12/15 - 7:17 p.m. EST: Lanza sent me some new code a couple times. We're working on it.

Tags: Faux Press Documentary Tools Movlog

Faux Press :: Rerun :: The World's Longest "Open" Love Letter

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How the project came to be known as "The World's Longest Open Love Letter" rather than just a plain "Love Letter".

So yeah. I'm doing it too: reruns.

There's a method to my madness.

Forgive me, do?

Original post, HERE.

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Grip Strip Ballet :: Paul Rogers Dances

Grip Strip Ballet :: Paul Rogers Dances

Watch the video

This job and this crew are soooo amazing.

What we won't do for one another to get through the day.

A meditation on trust.

Turning 'ballet' on its ear.

Volleyball Jazz Ballet :: VlogEurope 2005

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I make this with the idea of creating a jazz dance.

Cultural Note: This volleyball court is in a small square in the heart of urban Amsterdam. The music is from an open-air concert nearby, recorded with an iPod and Griffin iTalk microphone/speaker.


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VlogEurope! 5002 - Amsterdam Strip Tease

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Joel & I do a wee dance together.

Also qualifies as VlogMe05 entry for Clark ov Saturn.

Word of the Day: Freedom.

Quicktime version HERE.

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Faux Press / Fairytale Division :: The World's Longest Love Letter

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Before Valentine's Day 2000, this project was titled "The World's Longest Love Letter".

In the course of "publishing" the Love Letter, many works of art were installed in the streets. Documenting their subsequent decline, I learned the advantage of embracing how nature (including human nature) changes things, and furthermore, to embrace how others' needs and desires change my own.

In a kind of fairytale moment, this excerpt from "The Faux Parade" reveals how the project came to be known as "The World's Longest Open Love Letter".

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Faux Press Vlog :: Yawn as Dance :: Vlog Banal

Made you do it. Made you dance. Insert silly grin.

"Olympic Fanfare" by the Canadian Scottish Regiment.

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Faux Press Vlog :: Music Video :: Four-Minute Ballet

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"Four-Minute Ballet for Faux Press, Celebrities and Disposable Cameras" is the official title of this 2000 piece that features the music of Ahmed El-Motassem's Legal Fiction. The tune's called "I Want to Be You".

Found the song after we did the film but it fit so perfectly that I couldn't not make a music video of the work. We played with the ideas of celebrity and media.

The only scripted dialog is Lauren's: "No photos! No photos please!"

STARRING members of the faux press corps:

Steve Bennett, poet/engineer
Andrzej Bialuski, designer/photographer/entrepreneur
Adam Merton Cooper, cartographer/poet
Paul Forsman, former Marlboro Man/fashion photographer
Melanie Junceau, publicist
Richard Kostelanetz, philosopher/poet
Elizabeth, incognito
Kevin McCutcheon, conductor
Jan McLaughlin, as princess-at-large
Lauren Moore, star
Sharon O'Connell, ballerina
Eran Palatnik, cinematographer/entrepreneur
Cosmic Ray, shaman
Judith Ross, as J.K. Onassis
Rie Yamaguchi, artist
Ahmed El-Motassem's Legal Fiction, music
The Plaza Hotel, as itself
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Thanks to Eric Rice for the urge to repost. Wishing him the best of luck with his own version of MTV. Had I more time, I should certainly make a new one. On the other hand, all those videos I make with music are considered around here to be music videos.

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music video week

Faux Press Podcast: Dance Sketches

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Made this soundscape for choreographer Toni Taylor and her Pi Dance Theatre.

Faux Press Vlog: Why Vlog?

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Why Vlog? Because, that's why.

Heard through the vlogvine that the question has been posed.

This is my answer.

And that's Laura Veirs singing "Rapture" - listen here. Veirs' "Carbon Glacier" album is one of my all-time favorites.

Faux Press Vlog: At the Bath

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"At the Bath"

Click the image to view the movie.

Have been inspired all week by the vloggers out there doin' it for Videoblogging Week. Decided to go with it and make today's earlier podcast into a vlogcast.

Watched vlogs all week. No TV.

With this kind of content, I don't even mind the (superior) commercials at the end of Rocketboom news.

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