Need favor from someone who gets MuchMusicUSA (re: Blue Man Group video on 9/11)
09-07-02, 10:06 PM
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Need favor from someone who gets MuchMusicUSA (re: Blue Man Group video on 9/11)
MuchMusicUSA is showing a Blue Man Group's first video, entitled "Article 13," every hour on the hour on 9/11, starting at 8:50 AM EST. Could someone who gets MuchMusicUSA tape the video for me and send it to me? I'd be happy to pay for shipping and handling, the cost of the tape, and even a small "finder's fee" if you think that's appropriate. I've found Quicktime versions of the video, but they're pretty low res, and I think a VHS copy would be higher-res.
Please drop me an e-mail if you are kind enough to do this for me... thanks!
More info on the video here.
Please drop me an e-mail if you are kind enough to do this for me... thanks!
More info on the video here.
09-08-02, 01:10 AM
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Static, you might be interested in this, I got the following email from The Blue Man Group Underground. The video is there in shockwave format:
We would like you to experience "Exhibit 13" which was created as a way of
expressing personal feelings about the impact of September 11. Members of
Blue Man Group collaborated to design and produce all the elements of this
piece. The film can be found at www.exhibit13.com.
The New York Times on September 6 featured an article about television
programming around the September 11 anniversary. The article appears on the
cover of the Entertainment section. It begins:
"In tribute to the victims of the 9/11 attacks, Blue Man Group has created
an eloquent video. The usually explosive performance artists do not appear
in it; there are no blue-painted heads in sight. Instead, pieces of white
paper drift down in front of a pure black background as percussive music
plays. All these papers were found in Brooklyn, where they floated across
the river from the World Trade Center, and as they gently tumble from the
top to the bottom of the screen some become legible: a sheet with scorched
edges, filled with Japanese calligraphy; a letter that begins "Dear
Recruiter," a cover sheet that says "Exhibit 13."
"At other times a cascade of falling papers suggests birds or snowflakes or
bodies. The video is everything the gargantuan television coverage coming in
the next days is not: it is poetic, imagistic and simple; it draws viewers
in, inviting us to reflect rather than telling us what to think; it is three
and a half minutes long."
We would like you to experience "Exhibit 13" which was created as a way of
expressing personal feelings about the impact of September 11. Members of
Blue Man Group collaborated to design and produce all the elements of this
piece. The film can be found at www.exhibit13.com.
The New York Times on September 6 featured an article about television
programming around the September 11 anniversary. The article appears on the
cover of the Entertainment section. It begins:
"In tribute to the victims of the 9/11 attacks, Blue Man Group has created
an eloquent video. The usually explosive performance artists do not appear
in it; there are no blue-painted heads in sight. Instead, pieces of white
paper drift down in front of a pure black background as percussive music
plays. All these papers were found in Brooklyn, where they floated across
the river from the World Trade Center, and as they gently tumble from the
top to the bottom of the screen some become legible: a sheet with scorched
edges, filled with Japanese calligraphy; a letter that begins "Dear
Recruiter," a cover sheet that says "Exhibit 13."
"At other times a cascade of falling papers suggests birds or snowflakes or
bodies. The video is everything the gargantuan television coverage coming in
the next days is not: it is poetic, imagistic and simple; it draws viewers
in, inviting us to reflect rather than telling us what to think; it is three
and a half minutes long."
09-08-02, 01:19 AM
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Yep, I saw the website... it's nice and simple. It allows you to look at some of the papers in more detail. Still interested in getting a tape of this, but thanks! 
(And I'm part of the Underground, too, but I never got an e-mail. Harrumph.
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(And I'm part of the Underground, too, but I never got an e-mail. Harrumph.
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Originally posted by Pac-Rat
I'm taping it, but it won't be anything more than regular VHS. If nobody else offers or whatever let me know.
I'm taping it, but it won't be anything more than regular VHS. If nobody else offers or whatever let me know.
