{"id":16,"date":"2007-03-19T09:13:42","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T16:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/2007\/03\/19\/a-walking-shadow-a-poor-player\/"},"modified":"2007-03-19T09:13:42","modified_gmt":"2007-03-19T16:13:42","slug":"a-walking-shadow-a-poor-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/2007\/03\/19\/a-walking-shadow-a-poor-player\/","title":{"rendered":"a walking shadow; a poor player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the thing i most noticed about the old lady on her front porch, like I said in class, was the way the scene was set so perfectly.\u00c2\u00a0 The art of the shot was like some kind of lonely old lady version of <em>American Gothic.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/em>I really want to know if it was staged, or arranged, or found.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0If it was staged, then it is pure art, I guess.\u00c2\u00a0 It was created by an artist, an author.\u00c2\u00a0 But I don&#8217;t think it was staged, exactly.<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0If it was found, then it is pure luck.\u00c2\u00a0 It would indeed take hours and hours of footage to stumble across somthing like that.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0It was probably a combination.\u00c2\u00a0 I bet that Morris talked to everybody in the neighborhood, filmed a few of them.\u00c2\u00a0 But when he found Ms. Rassmussen, knew he&#8217;d found some art.\u00c2\u00a0 So he asked her to &#8220;please sit on the porch, no ma&#8217;am, don&#8217;t bother shutting the door, no, I insist&#8230; please just put your cane right there.\u00c2\u00a0 Now, what were you telling me about that pet cemetary?&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Rather than creating or finding art in the world, these shots were probably a heightening of the art ever-present in life, through the actions of an artist.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the thing i most noticed about the old lady on her front porch, like I said in class, was the way the scene was set so perfectly.\u00c2\u00a0 The art of the shot was like some kind of lonely old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/2007\/03\/19\/a-walking-shadow-a-poor-player\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/tyler\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}