Wednesday, September 29, 2004
Cinema Ephemera
Are you in for a quick experiment? Shall we?First task: Name three types of coniferous trees. You have ten seconds.
Second task: Name the capitols or Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan and the lakes that border them. Another ten seconds.
Third task: Name four brands of tennis shoes. Ten more seconds.
Fourth task: Name two low-carb diets. You have five seconds for that one.
My guess is that the majority of us has an easier time with the ephemeral trivia of the latter two questions. Though trees and the US states may be more permanent than Nike and Atkins, the effect of omnipresent commerical ephemera has a more visceral result. As urbanites, our daily lives are not filled with the bewonderment of the natural world. We but on occassion imagine what the Midwesterners must cherish in the Great Lakes.
This is exactly why Ephemeral Cinema is at the top of my list for passing time these days. Indeed, ripping, mixing and burning the artifacts of our culture could well become a passion. When thirteen hours has passed, and I've completed the download of the DVVD quality version of the film Panorama Ephemera, I'll close the door to San Diego for a night, make a bowl of something from someone's garden -- green, no doubt, and far too healthy to enumerate fully -- and sit down to watch what collected works from the past can tell me about the collective mindset of America today. I have a theory that our national psyche is deeply mired in past consumptions. We are what we eat.
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