A HAIKU FOR THE FUTURE...Both houses have changed,

Both houses have changed,
A change for when the same rain
Is caught by diff’rent drains.

I know this sounds bizarre, but I have been thinking quite a bit about Borat and what is represents artistically. Yeah I know it’s offensive, and reveals all sorts of things about American society that are quite embarrassing, and yada yada the typical things said about Borat all over. But I have been thinking about it in a different way; a more Claudia way if you will (I am sure I am not the only ones who thinks in the way either, but hey it’s my blog and I can be as pompous as I want about my opinions cause you’re reading it anyway )

As many of you know I read about physics, and one of my favorite books has been Art & Physics, by I forget who, though not Thomas Friedman who I often quote. The book argues, theorizes, (whatever) that major revolutions in the art world sorta set the stage for major shifts in change in physics. He lays out a pretty good argument with some strong evidence, too. Anyhow, last weekend the writer’s crew and I were discussing how we all sorta of feel things boiling lately in the art world, as if theres going to be a shift soon. And I hear the same thing around other tv and movie people. And I think it’s pretty interesting that Borat blurs the line between real and unreal in a way other mock-umentary have not. (I apologize if there are and I haven’t seen them) And sure, we have movies and plays that tell stories about the blurring of real and unreal, but Sacha Baron Cohen (did I mess up that spelling?) really, I mean really does it. What does this mean about physics? Who knows. We’ll see. But I know there is a woman who working to prove the existence of a twelfth dimension..whatever that means for our reality.

Other thoughts:

I have always been inspired by the Futurists, the avante-garde movement in Italian in the early 20th Century. And by inspired, I mean artistically since Mussolini(however you spell that) did consider them the precursor and youth movement to Fascism. But they were constantly trying to push the lines of what was considered art, and they used new technologies and tried to do away with old dated forms, and they were fiery youths politically inspired. One of the things they believed is that in order for an artist to fully represent life, or comment on it, or change it, he must have no personal morals. Now at first that may sound crazy, rash, bold, I mean that’s what I used to think, being a person who is always in pursuit understanding what morals mean for me individually, but it’s true. I mean, I have read articles saying how great of a person Sacha is, and I am sure he is, but in order to pull off some of that shit, you really have to put that behind you in the moment.

Speaking of the futurists…

I am sure they’d like my little idea which I had last yr in Minneapolis but never did.
I want to start a little series of five minute tapes/videos (documentary style), about girls well….i wont say all that since I don’t want my idea taken.
But I want to stick them on utube.
If anyones interested in helping me out (ie someone with a camera) let me know.
I’ll let you in on the info.