[Newspoetry] eh!

[gillespie william k]

We should get a flag though, to drape over the piano or something. It's
an essential part of the newspoetry iconography. Or maybe we need a new
iconography...

Like that final scene in Gilliam's Fear and Loathing where Hunter S.
drives off into the desert, his convertible top suddenly a ragged American
flag, as "Jumping Jack Flash" plays and the credits roll..

?

On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 auntbarb at onthejob.net wrote:

> > 
> > 
> > Ideas for the Sweet Betsy show:
> > 
> > 1) We place a large flag on the ground and project a diagram of the big 4
> > media companies on the wall behind us.  A performer reads a poem for every
> > square of the flag going from blue starred box to the bottom stripe (red I
> > think).
> 	
> 	I'm not sure that we've got enough room for this, partly because
> half of the wall behind us will be a window.  However, I can easily see
> pulling off suggestion number 2; we'd just have to re-arrange the tables that
> are already there.
> 
> Eh.
> 
> -Babs
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > 2) We simulate the look of a frantic round the clock 24/7 newspoetry room
> > complete with "desks" (international, national, local, comics,
> > editorials).  People are frantic at most times except when on the air at
> > which point they become alert, clear, and slow.  Think of it as a clown
> > car.  In between the acts are all the clowns running around the car;
> > during the acts the clowns are all piled in driving.  This reverses the
> > usually dynamic of readings (pause and quiet between poems, energy during
> > poems).
> > 
> > I welcome additional thoughts on staging.
> > 
> > --danielle 
> > 
> > P.S.  I find this kind of preparatory/logistical conversation over e-mail
> > to be a very good use of the medium.  It seems much more effective than
> > scheduled meetings.  People manifest their presence when they have
> > something to say.
> > 
> > 
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