Okay, so anyone that knows me well, knows that I have a thing about Lionel Richie…especially this gem of a video for his song “Hello”.
I love the melodramatic acting intro for the song….Ritchie plays a drama teacher who has it bad for a blind student in the school…and he repeatedly asks, “Is it me you’re looking for?”
You must watch it to its amazing conclusion to get the full effect. I just find it so amusing.
I admittedly don’t watch many music videos these days, but why can’t the days of the theatrical music video come back? Not only a song, but an amazing back story to match.
I’m getting ready to move. I seem to have amassed quite a lot of stuff.
For the past few weeks, I’ve been trying to sort through all my little bits to create some semblance of order. I really want to be organized when school starts, so I’ve been making a great effort to get all related items together in 1 box. I’ve also spent a fair amount of time packing old work (as if for shipment), some of which will go with me to NY and some of which will be placed in tubs for storage.
It is really shear chaos:
I’m getting there though.
I have to move 2x total, with the first move happening within the next few days. AH! I’ll be packing hardcore all day tomorrow, that’s for sure.
It was interesting for me that while I was trying to sort and pack, I kept coming across old samples, projects, and writings that made me start to reminisce. I started to think, you know, I really did some good work when I did my M.A. at Purdue.
Cameos are miniature sculptural art; windows into the cultural past. They are intended as statements, as commemorative adornment, and are often metaphors for human emotions and experiences. Typically worn by women, cameos are objects in dialogue with the body and the psychological self.
The word “cameo†conjures images of beauty. The tooth as portrait is both beautiful and grotesque, yet recalls the pale colored profiles of women; it plays with expectation and provides a recognizable starting point for narrative. This juxtaposition of the living body with the lifeless body elicits both attraction and repulsion with the material and the meaning.
