#IfUHad2Pick1: A SOCIAL MEDIA GAME YOU CAN PLAY IN THE NEW YEAR...

December 31, 2017

I don’t know what impulse made me do it, but several months ago I posted a meme with the hashtag #IfUHad2Pick1. The first was Edith Piaf OR Judy Garland? Wildly thought to be two of the greatest female vocalists of the 20th century if not all-time, the idea isn’t who is better, but rather, given those two options which do you pick.

The criteria is your own, but my intention isn’t that one is more important but just the simple idea of if offered two greatest hits CDs (remember those?) which would you choose? I started with singers and bands and a few great albums or songs. You can play it on your own Facebook or Twitter. You can make it into a poll on either, but I’ve never kept track of who “won” so I usually create a meme. Usually, the “winner” is the coolest/ most beloved but a few are REALLY tough to choose. (I tended to use older more iconic artists, when you venture into newer artists don’t have the clout yet. Plus it depends on your own age and audience, mine is older, and more knowledgeable about the history of music.)

You may think it’s silly or unnessecesary to pit artists against one another but the real goal is fun and appreciation. If you just say who is your favorite, it’s a bit dull, but the either OR choice sets up a fun dynamic. (Madonna gets a lot of both love and hate so I chose to put her against Yokoand then Elton, just for fun…)

Sometimes it’s two very similar artists that are contemporaries, like Mavis Staples and Gladys Knight and other times it’s fun to cross generations like Janis Joplin and Amy Winehouse.

I’m finishing out the year with music and starting the new one with actors, directors, movies and TV shows. But it works for theater, fashion designers, authors, artists, architects and anything you can think of really.

If you play, please use the hashtag #IfYouHad2Pick1 so we all can search and see who is playing.

Thanks to all my Facebook pals for playing along every day, it’s been a lot of fun, even when those choices and comments got heated.

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SO, TAKING A QUOKKA SELFIE IS A "THING" NOW IN AUSTRALIA...

March 13, 2015

A Quokka is a small Australian macropod that no matter what, always looks like it’s smiling. Apparently, taking selfies with these cute little creatures is a “thing” in Australia right now. Who knew? Well, after looking at these pics, who wouldn’t…?

"SUP?" SEAN FADER GOES ON 100 DATES IN ONE YEAR

January 16, 2014

Photographer Sean Fader is a friend I met a few years ago while waiting in a casting call for Bravo’sWork of Art (the guy who won that first season, Abdi, was in our group) Anyway, I’ve admired his work for years and see him now and then, mostly in art–related situations – but during, 2010, the full year this project took, I didn’t see Sean much. Random guys did though. Sean signed up on 16 sites online dating and hookup websites looking for men who interested him. He looked at their profile and pre-visualized a portrait of who he thought they might be. Then he asked them out on a date that consisted of arriving at their home (never having met them in person) pouring them a glass of wine, and photographing them immediately. He directed them to enact his preconceived ideas of who he imagined them to be. After his photo shoot, he took them out on a date. This allowed him to consider how he might alter the first portrait of them. After the date, they collaborated on creating an image they both felt represented them. Sean says he would never describe his dates as “subjects.” “At worst they are sitters, but they are also collaborators,” he said. “I said to them, ‘I have a game to play. Do you want to play with me?’ And they are the ones who wanted to play with me.” Although it started out as fun, Sean said combining his personal life, his dating life, and his art into one project began to take its toll. “When it all clicked, it was the highest of highs. But when the date was awkward, when the photographs were bad, and I felt bad about myself — everything was about an exterior approval — when someone rejects you, it can be ego-bruising, and when you’re supposed to also be making work and when you fail at that, too … it deeply changed me.” I think the whole project is fascinating and brave in all areas. Sup? opens March 10 at the University of Springfield, Illinois and runs through April 10 (Photos: Sean Fader)