one of the best things i could look forward to in elementary school, from grades one to five was the promise of ms. collins' class at halloween.
(side note: ms.collins was also a lesbian, and the first teacher at st. james elementary school to ban SNAP BRACLETS)
every year, without fail, ms. collins would put this on the slide projector (and yes, i know this is a short film, but there was totally a filmstrip version available with a 45 record) and i would sit, year after year, completely enthralled with what i was seeing projected before me.
i look at this film as a bonafide twenty-six year old, and can see how these five minutes, once a year for five years, shaped my art.
the grim and sad, dressed up and packaged as the hilarious and beautiful.
the best lesson i learned from the time i was able to remember was that if you don't laugh at the tragic, heartbreaking and sad, you'll crumble. some might call bull shit! and others might call me a fortress-on-an-island-builder. these are gospel truths and angels that i wrestle with. this is what makes me who i am.
(side note: ms.collins was also a lesbian, and the first teacher at st. james elementary school to ban SNAP BRACLETS)
every year, without fail, ms. collins would put this on the slide projector (and yes, i know this is a short film, but there was totally a filmstrip version available with a 45 record) and i would sit, year after year, completely enthralled with what i was seeing projected before me.
i look at this film as a bonafide twenty-six year old, and can see how these five minutes, once a year for five years, shaped my art.
the grim and sad, dressed up and packaged as the hilarious and beautiful.
the best lesson i learned from the time i was able to remember was that if you don't laugh at the tragic, heartbreaking and sad, you'll crumble. some might call bull shit! and others might call me a fortress-on-an-island-builder. these are gospel truths and angels that i wrestle with. this is what makes me who i am.
oh, dramatics! comedies of errors, errors of comedies. a neverending circle.
posted by Terence at 10:37 PM
3 Comments:
it's funny to think about me posting on my own blog.. but seriously - i fucking LOVE that video terence.. i couldn't wait for my blog post to tell you so - can you be the best person ever!!! i think so..
that video is almost as creepy as the hefalumps and woozels from winnie the pooh...and that's saying somthing...
I'm working through an obsession with Day Of The Dead imagery in my artwork. Awesome.
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