Obviously coming off the back of the recent Tupac reincarnation, now this craze seems set to revive the likes of Freddie Mercury and Kurt Cobain. This is a matter I feel strongly about, and against, while it seems most are happy for the fad to continue.
First of all, a lot of people have been saying how's it no different to watching a recorded live video, listening to a CD, or a waxwork model. Well, it is in a totally different league. Hologramming (sic) itself isn't really the issue, it is just an extension of a drawing or a model but the problem comes with what you do with this hologram.
My issue is one about probably my favourite art form- the art of live performance. To me, it's one of the most raw, emotional, and real things you can experience- an artist or musician expressing themselves, living in that moment with the audience. A hologram is just a completely different thing, it's lifeless- everything about live performance does not exist within it.
So at this point it still seems very much the same as a past video or something. But trying to make out like this person is real, is just completely disrespectful to the legacy that artist left behind and to the entire art form itself. That person is dead, surely you don't need to be especially spiritual or superstitious to see that trying to bring this person back to life, through no will of their own, and get them to 'perform' as they did when they were alive, is wrong. As a friend put it- you may as well dig up their body and use them as a ventriloquist dummy.
On another note, dead artists had their time. We should be looking to spend our money on new things instead of supporting this disrespect, and at any rate, what is a purely a money-grabbing exercise.
Live performance is a sacred thing, let's keep it alive.
Monday, 14 May 2012
People beeping their horns at their friends
As well as being against the highway code, it's also fucking annoying. It's happened to all of us- you're driving in your car or often walking on the pavement, when some twat beeps his horn (usually the 'cheeky' two pips) at his mate he's just spotted on the pavement. So as a pedestrian, you shit yourself that they're beeping at you, and as a driver you think they genuinely might be beeping to alert danger.
So now, said twat has commanded the attention of pedestrians and motor-users alike as he tries to wave to his mate. At this point let me remind everyone that the receiver of this friendly beep horn never knows what the fuck is going on. They don't know if they were the one being beeped it, and they certainly have no fucking clue who's in the car anyway.
The worst is where a driver drops someone off, and as they leave, they beep their horn. Like seriously, what are you playing at.
So now, said twat has commanded the attention of pedestrians and motor-users alike as he tries to wave to his mate. At this point let me remind everyone that the receiver of this friendly beep horn never knows what the fuck is going on. They don't know if they were the one being beeped it, and they certainly have no fucking clue who's in the car anyway.
The worst is where a driver drops someone off, and as they leave, they beep their horn. Like seriously, what are you playing at.
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