[Newspoetry] eh!

[bhagy at onthejob.net]

I love this idea of the newspoetry room (anything that resembles a clown
car is cool with me!).  Actually, i think both ideas could work well
together, one is an environment, the other the decorations in the
environment.

We could even have a moment where strung-out-on-latte terrorists cause the
newspoetry newsroom to go
off-line or something, because of a late-breaking newspoem, or something.
Or something.

With a blue screen, we could even do those over-the-shoulder pictures.
i've never done work with blue screens (actually, green screens can work
too, actually any color can work so long as it's all the same shade and
nothing else has that color frequency).

brian


On Thu, 30 Sep 1999 chyn 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).
> 
> 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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