The Getty challenge
One of the few good things to have happened during this pandemic is the creativity demonstrated out there among people at large. I love to watch comic videos about the shutdown on YouTube, for example, most of them made by non-professionals who are funnier than most pros.
I’ve already posted a couple of those, and here’s another:
And here’s something I recently discovered: people recreating famous artwork with the objects, humans, and animals at hand. Some are them are pretty funny, too (go to the link and scroll down).
It’s the Getty Museum in LA that has mounted the art challenge (scroll down again). I think my absolute favorite one is this. It’s simplicity itself – except maybe for getting the dog to cooperate.
Manet’s best friend?
A lot of these are very clever. Nice to see people having fun! I agree, this dog is good.
A very special message about Covid-19
https://youtu.be/eK5oAmESJlA
That woman’s video was great. Yep, that’s me, eating, a lot of alcohol consumption, and I haven’t quite starting talking to a melon, but I have a feeling that my wife and I will begin that soon. Maybe even fix it a nice dinner!
These are wonderful. There was a time I’d make the trek to Toronto to engage in culture at least once or twice a year. Not sure when that stopped; possibly when the kids grew tired of going. Sigh. Went a few years back to see the King Tut exhibition. Was it really that long ago…..2009? Wow. Double sigh.
These were delightful.
Thank you Neo.
I’m not a fan of videos in general (don’t have the patience), and I’ll dissent by saying this one was nothing special IMO. A picture makes the point faster, like this one.
The “From Bad to Worse” video was good.
I’ve been watching a couple films recommended by filmmaker Alexander Payne.
“Summertime,” David Lean, Katherine Hepburn and Rossano Brazzi (1955) is excellent and easy to enjoy. It is something of a travelogue of Venice (in color), as well as a culture clash romance.
“Il Sorpasso” by Dino Risi (1962) is a very odd-ball comedy or tragi-comedy, and very in keeping with Alexander Payne’s films; which is to say that it is not all that easy to like the characters. The major characters are tremendously flawed and more or less irredeemable. And it is also a travelogue of Italy, though it is in B&W.
Slightly off-topic, but the the annual Pagent of the Masters in Laguna Beach CA takes the recreation of works of art to the extreme:
https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-omr-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=omr&p=pagent+of+the+masters+video#id=35&vid=ff9981dbc05cec302136955eceb24b8e&action=view
A much better video of Pagent of the Masters (sorry for the double posting)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cfBwnP81rY
I get several e-mails a day from old Navy buddies. They’re all humorous. Cartoons, videos, and essays with a comedic take on our present situation. I love ’em. Doing a lot of LOL, which I’m told is good for you. Reminds me of the days at Yankee Station where the fear and tension were alleviated by a lot of gallows humor along with testosterone fueled hijinks.
Humor lets us relax for a few moments and creativity gives us the feeling of dong something, even if it’s slight, to control our destiny. This too will pass. Why not have some fun along the way?
Loved the Pageant of the Arts. Here’s another good look behind the scenes at how the costumes and headpieces are made to look painted — they are!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6fg95StXm0
In the early 1980s, American Fork Utah did a small-scale pageant of the tableau vivant genre, which we were able to see on one occasion.
It is great fun to attend such a show, if we ever get to leave our houses and travel again.
Here’s a variant on the style, which has to be seen to appreciate the skill of the actors — still tableau, but much more vivant. And great music!
https://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/tableaux-vivants-caravaggio-paintings
I’ve been to the Laguna Pageant of the Arts twice, quite a long time ago. It’s an amazing and impressive undertaking and very well-executed, but also very strange.