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 Where in the world am I today?: Winnipeg, MB, Canada
It was about a year ago that I went out to my friend Robin Chestnut’s place in Teulon, Manitoba and not only had a great time riding horses with he and his wife Rhonda, but also got introduced to TED TALKS. If you swing by the TED Talks Website you’re greeted with this simple concept –
Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world
Last year Robin introduced me to a few of the talks via the TED Websites and the ones that really stood out were –
The amazing intelligence of crows: Joshua Klein
And
Paul Stamets on 6 ways mushrooms can save the world
These two talks were just awesome, but all of the stuff I’ve watched on TED has been excellent and opened my eyes to a different way of looking at things.
Right after I got back from Robin’s place last year I downloaded a few of the talks and was right into it, but sort of lost steam as the regular day-to-day chaos I’ve surrounded myself with filtered back in and I didn’t continue my pursuit for knowledge via TED because of other distractions in life.
Well… I went out to Robin’s house again this year and again TED talks were a featured part of the evening. This time around the two talks that really stood out were –
Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
And
James Cameron: Before Avatar … a curious boy
Both of which I thoroughly enjoyed, but beyond my enjoyment of of the talks, the think I took away from our evening was that TED Talks have been made available on iTunes as a Video Podcast. This means that all I had to do to have TED infiltrate my life on a more regular basis was to subscribe to the feed via iTunes and let the talks come to me.
I think these talks along with the stories I was also recently introduced to via “The Moth” both sort of fall into the same general category in that they’ll provide an outlet for my brain to be exposed to new ideas and new ways of thinking in a manner that I know I need. Some people do sudoku, hopefully a steady diet of new ideas will help keep my brain young. We’ll see how it goes.
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 Where in the world am I today?: North Vancouver, BC, Canada then on to Winnipeg, MB, Canada
In 1984, Bonnie Tyler released “Holding out for a Hero” as part of the Footloose Soundtrack… The Chorus is awesome!
I need a hero
I’m holding out for a hero ’til the end of the night
He’s gotta be strong
And he’s gotta be fast
And he’s gotta be fresh from the fight
I need a hero
I’m holding out for a hero ’til the morning light
He’s gotta be sure
And it’s gotta be soon
And he’s gotta be larger than life
Somehow I was reminded of these words when I received a link from a friend of mine yesterday. This is all she sent –
Have your digital photo or webcam at the ready, then go here and do what it says!
http://en.tackfilm.se/
So I went and played along… It’s a really elegant implementation of a pretty great idea and if you’ve got a few minutes to turn yourself into a Hero then I highly recommend swinging by for the fun.
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 Where in the world am I today?: Yellowknife, NWT, Canada
While I was in Seattle last weekend for Moisture Festival, the friend I was staying with, Matt Baker, introduced me to “The Moth – Live Storytelling Performances.” Matt had several of the series on CD so I dumped a few onto my iPhone so I could listen to them in the car on my drive back to Vancouver.
Over the course of the three hours or so that it took to drive back to Vancouver I heard various stories including a couple of great ones that were performed by Thomas Dolby who described how he had met Michael Jackson and another by Joe Jackson who described the moment when it clicked and he decided to become a professional musician. These two really stood out, but all of the stories were great to listen to.
So much media these days seems to bombard you with images and sounds and chaos and confusion, that I found it really refreshing to just sit in my car and listen to various human voices telling stories about events in their lives that had had an impact. There was something quite a bit more human about the stories, the voices and the shared experience of a story that was really great!
I was reminded of a conversation I had with Glenn Singer at one point many years ago. We were discussing his show and how on many levels his show is based around a story that he just loves telling. One of those stories that gets better each time you tell it because it get refined and polished. The intonation in the voice as it’s being told, the pace, the dynamics and expression. Certainly these things are heightened in a live performance situation when you can enjoy the narrator’s physicality as well, but sometimes the telling of a good story is such and auditory experience that it’s better not to be distracted by any visual stimulus because it allows you to craft the image in your mind’s eye and that’s almost always a more vivid playground that what ever reality someone else might create.
Years ago I was on a road trip from Edmonton to Vancouver with Glenn and Amy Rose, and Amy picked up a two cassette tape (yes cassette tapes…this should be an indication of just how long ago this was) story telling package by Garrison Keillor called – The Book of Guys. Garrison Keillor is an amazing story teller and the three hours of tails that the collection contained both amused us and kept us distracted on the very long drive from Edmonton to the coast. There’s something really great about stories on road trips…
Anyway… I quickly devoured the stories that I had downloaded to my phone on the trip back to Vancouver and hopped onto iTunes to download some more from “The Moth’s” podcast. There were six more stories available when I hit iTunes up for my Story fix and I ended up finishing those off on a jaunt on public transit a few days ago… I’ve subscribed to the podcast so that as new stories are posted I’ll download them automatically and feel my hunger for the spoken word.
Sometimes I feel like the world is moving faster and faster and faster all the time, and taking a moment to slowdown and just listen is good for the soul I think. Do yourself a favour, take a moment to slow down and check out ‘The Moth.’
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 Where in the world am I today?: New Delhi, India.
My friend, Ben Robinson, from New York sent me a couple of links to some on-line video footage of the great magician Slydini. The videos were included as part of an article by Dick Cavett and the footage was originally shot for the Dick Cavett show back in 1977 and 1978. If you’ve got the time, I highly recommend swinging by –
Conjuring Slydini
and
Conjuring Slydini (Part 2)
– and give yourself enough time to enjoy the fact that this man’s artistry was captured on video tape and preserved.
The article that accompanies the video is also great and it’s clear that Dick Cavett had an enormous respect and admiration for his mentor. The article was also containes a hint of melancholy as it seemed as though in his later years Slydini more or less vanished from the public eye and was virtually unknown. Were it not for the fact that some of his artistry had been preserved on the Dick Cavett show, we might not have such a wonderful record of what this man was capable of.
At the beginning of the second video Dick Cavett introduces Slydini as primarily a retired magician who at that stage of his career was doing more teaching and coaching than performing. And I was somehow struck by the fact that it would have been even more amazing to see his work ten to twenty years prior to then these videos were shot. As an older man his grace and poise, the fluidness of his moves and the precision of his sleights are obvious, but to have seen his work when he was a young dashing man must have been amazing. Still it’s clear from the footage taken on the show that Slydini had rehearsed his moves and tricks to perfection.
I have another magician friend named Greg Moreland who teaches magic classes on cruise ships and I helped him out with one at one point. Something he said really stuck with me –
“Don’t practice until you can do it right, practice so much that you can’t do it wrong.”
From watching Slydini and from reading the article written by Dick Cavett it was clear that Slydini shared this eye for perfection and work ethic.
In a day and age when the breadth of our knowledge is vast thanks to the ability to google just about anything and know a little about a lot, it was refreshing for me to slow down to appreciate a craftsman at work. Although I don’t consider myself a huge fan of magic, I am a fan of great performance and it was a treat to be sucked in to watching Slydini as he captivated his audience.
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 Where in the world am I today?: St. Thomas, joining the Emerald Princess
A few weeks back I was traveling through Orlando on my way to join the Monarch of the Seas and had the delightful pleasure of spending some time with my friend Penny Mathis. Penny picked me up from the Airport and drove me out to Port Canaveral. I insisted on taking her to Waffle House for a brunch as part of this journey and before dropping me off at the ship she handed me a copy of Water for Elephants a book by Sara Gruen.
A quick stop by wikipedia gives you this quick synopsis of the story –
Water for Elephants is a historical novel by Sara Gruen. The novel centers on Jacob Jankowski and his experiences in a travelling circus called The Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth.
Gruen did extensive research of both circus archives as well as searching out and recording various people’s personal accounts of their lives on various circuses in the United States and this research paid off as she seems to have captured some of the gritty realities of what the life on the circus was like during the great depression.
Years ago while working at the Edmonton Street Performers Festival a casting agent from Cirque du Soleil came to scout talent at the festival. Also there that year was my friend Geoff Cobb who performs as Sword Swallower, Thom Sellectomy. Geoff seemed to have a certain distain for what Cirque du Soleil represented because to his mind, Cirque wasn’t really a Circus… They were far to clean and far to polished and over the course of the week at the festival I got to hear some of his more gritty stories about some of his experiences while working as a clown on the Clyde Beatty Cole Brothers Circus in the late 80s.
Reading ‘Water for Elephants’ reminded me of some of the stories that Geoff told that week and really gave me the impression that the story not did a great job of relating the twists and turns of an old man’s memory of how he met his wife while working on the Circus, but also captured and did justice to the gritty realities of what life on the circus must have been like during the great depression.
The best possible review I could probably give this books starts with this confession. I’m an incredibly slow reader. It takes me forever to get through a book and this one I devoured in about three days. It’s a quick read, the story is engaging and the world and characters that Gruen created kept the book in my hands. Well worth the read.
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 Where in the world am I today?: Miami, Fl, USA
While I was working on the ISLAND Princess over the past week and a bit I was super impressed with how diligently Jim McDonald worked on his act. It inspired me to sit down and start the process of organizing all of my bits into one big document, a data-base of routines where I could see all the stuff I’ve got in my checkerboard chest of wonders and create a catalogue of all of the material that I currently do on a regular or semi-regular basis. My theory being that after shows if I’ve had a particularly good ad-lib, this database will give me a place to make notes on each routine and beyond just the organic nature of ad-libs during a show I’ll also have a place to work on writing new jokes that could be incorporated into existing routines or have a place to look at completely new routines and material.
The software I picked for this job was Scrivener. How did I discover it? Well, months ago my friend, David Duchemin, told me about this very reasonably priced ($39.95) software package that he uses to organize his thoughts for the various writing projects. Now before I go any further I should state up-front that this is a Mac Only program, so if you live in the PC world you’re S.O.L. on this particular software package, but I’ve found that a majority of performers seem to gravitate towards the Mac platform, so hopefully this might be something that will be relevant to a few performers out there.
The integration between Scrivener and the Mac OS is pretty great and the ability to format text, spell check and shift between documents will be familiar to anyone who’s used Mac Programs like Mail or Keynote… It’s certainly not as robust a word processor as say Microsoft Word, but what it does, it does very well and having used it for a couple of projects now I can state that the more I use it the more I like it. It’s has been a great package for me to lay out ideas and plot a course with projects that I’ve developed from the ground up like the Hot Dog Show as well as a way to organize my thoughts and ideas as they pertain to the routines I’ve done for years as The Checkerboard Guy. Being able to look at everything in one umbrella document will, I hope, make the process of revisiting those old routines in an attempt to re-invent them and breath some fresh new life into them a much easier task that it would be in a standard word processor document.
The website does a much better job of describing the features and work flow that the software allows you to implement and the on-line tutorial videos do a great job of explaining the software’s interface and will get you up and running in less than an hour should you choose to watch them all. The Free 30-day trial version of the software is also an excellent way to try before you buy which is exactly what I did when I started to use the software in the Spring. With the work I did over the course of the last week aboard the ISLAND Princess I can easily confess to being a big fan of this software as both a venue to write down my ideas and more importantly a place to keep them organized.
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 Where in the world am I today?: At Sea aboard the ISLAND Princess
Back when I was debuting “The Hot Dog Show” at the 2009 PNE a couple people mentioned how much they had enjoyed “Born Standing Up” a book by Steve Martin that discusses his career in Stand-Up Comedy. At the time I was far too busy to track down a copy of the book, let alone find the time to read it. I’m an incredibly slow reader, so the prospect of reading books, even though I know I benefit enormously from making the time, is sometimes a bit daunting. I think my friend Jeremy (who was at the PNE and was one of the people who mentioned the book to me) must really have wanted me to absorb the content of the book in what ever format I could so he gave me a gift certificate for audible.com – It was the push I needed to tap into the wonderful world of audio books and a few weeks back I used the gift certificate to buy a copy of the Steve Martin book in audio format.
So… What did I think of this piece? Fabulous! I LOVED it! I didn’t get the chance to listen to it until I got on the plane just recently to fly down for my latest cruise ship contract aboard the ISLAND Princess, but it was a fantastic way to enjoy the time I spent on the flight between Dallas and San Jose, Costa Rica. The unabridged text is read by Steve Martin which I think made the experience even better than it would have been had I made the time to read the hard copy of the book. Having Steve provide the appropriate nuances and vocal inflections to his own words was fantastic as were the moments of genuine emotion that were clear when he reflected on his life and his career.
I find myself drawing parallels a lot this week between the way he describes his career and the life that most entertainers I know have experienced in one way or another. Yes the scope of his success far exceeds that of most of my contemporaries, but the steps he went through, his love of the craft, the great gigs, the crap gigs, and everything in between… It’s all there.
I think my fondness for the material and delivery are in great part a reflection of the fact that I’ve always been a huge Steve Martin Fan. My awareness of Steve Martin came in the late 1970s when I’d stay up late to watch him on Saturday Night Live or listen to his cult classic “King Tut” on the radio. At the time my parents were going to school at the University of Minnesota and we lived right next to the Minnesota State Fair. I have vivid memories that Steve Martin played a live concert at the Minnesota State Fair one year and I desperately wanted to go and see him live but was too young to get into the show and just enjoyed hearing about it from older friends who had either gone to see the show or had friends that had.
In the world of variety entertainment there are sometimes few great examples of how to take what you do and turn it into a career path that can make you famous (if that’s what you’re after) but Steve Martin’s story is a classic from his beginnings helping out at the Magic Shop at Disneyland to selling out arena shows with a show that really wasn’t ever built to play arenas… I highly recommend picking up a copy of this book in what ever format works best for you and enjoying a great ride.
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 Where in the world am I today?: North Vancouver, BC, Canada
August 22 a day that lives on in infamy… Well at least for me as it was the very first day of performances for my new Hot Dog Show. September 7, 17 days and 51 shows later I’m pleased to report that I’ve survived the experience. Went for dinner with the rest of the cast from the PNE Street Stars Program after finishing up today and then drove home and dragged all of the props into the basement. Thought I’d snap a quick picture of the gack that made up the last two and a half weeks before shifting gears and getting ready to head to Ketchikan to join the Golden Princess on Wednesday… No rest for the wicked…
So… How was it this new show? I’m pleased to report that things panned out more or less exactly how I anticipated before the run began. I knew that the first few days were going to beat me up pretty badly as I just struggled to get from the beginning of the show to the end of the show remembering to properly execute the mechanics involved in each routine, but bit by bit the show began to flow. I’m enormously thankful to all of the members of this year’s Street Stars Program as they all came by multiple times to give me notes and suggestions, and I owe a lot of the growth of the show to their feedback.
I was also thrilled to get video of the show at various stages of development over the course of the Fair, and if there’s anything purely technical (it is after Tuesday and Tuesdays are usually dedicated to technical issues) about this post it would be to strongly recommend that you video your show as it’s developing so you can check back to gauge your progress and self direct the show and make notes of those things that are working and those things that aren’t. I haven’t had a chance to review the footage fully yet, but I’m thrilled that I was able to collect 3 hours worth of tape of the performances over the 17 days, an hour of which, shot in the last two days of the fair, which will hopefully form the basis of a promotional video for the show.
Now that the run at the PNE is done I’m all excited about retooling a few things to see if I can make them work even better. I’ve also ordered some other props and will continue to push forward as though I’m going to be doing this show again… It was such fun to be living inside a show that’s so different from my juggling show and by the end it really did feel as though I had started to really figure out how the new beast worked… It’ll be good to take a break from it for a bit, but I do hope that I’m able to maintain my enthusiasm for this new project and can continue to enjoy watching it grow and progress…
Nice to feel this pumped about the execution of an idea that’s been floating around in my head for about the last 5 years and lived through a pretty intensive boot camp of getting through it’s initial run! Yippee!
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 Where in the world am I today?: Ketchikan, AK, USA on my way back to North Vancouver
In the last week I’ve watched the Documentary Film “Buskers – For Love or Money” a couple of times. This may in part be because I was working aboard the GOLDEN Princess and had lots of time on my hands, but I think it’s also because I’m a huge fan of trying to capture moments from the world of street theatre on either video or in still photos myself. In my case this has been accomplished by getting people to come and perform at the Pacific National Exhibition in Vancouver and recording their shows there.
Mad Chad Taylor took a different approach on gathering footage. Instead of getting people to come to him, he went to some of the most famous street performance pitches around the world and captured many of the legends of the street in action both on stage as well as behind the scenes. Chad’s piece is a window into the world of street performing and street performers. A collage of images, experiences and stories from some of the most well respected street performers from around the world – from Amsterdam to San Francisco, Key West to Halifax and as far afield as Japan and New Zealand.
I struggled a bit after my first viewing to find the thread that held the piece together. A story line that moved the footage forward because on first viewing I didn’t really find one. I think that’s why I ended up going back and watching the piece again. The film opens on Venice Beach with Tony Vera ‘The Fireman’ setting up his show and ends with a shot of Tony walking away from the pitch after a day of work… Everything in between captures the characters, the lifestyle, the challenges and the joys of what it is to be a street performer. It’s not the story of any one performer, it’s not the story of any one street performing pitch, it’s a snap of venues around the world and many of the unique performers from around the world who can take a street corner and turn it into a stage.
I love that this documentary exists because it brings together so many of the members of this often dysfunctional family into a sixty minute film. Some of the performers featured aren’t doing street shows any longer, so to have footage of their shows and see their impact on this world is a pretty great gift.
Recommended viewing for anyone who’s a fan of the art form.
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 Where in the world am I today?: In Ketchikan, Alaska joining the GOLDEN Princess
Youtube has become a replacement for TV these days and an amazing resource tool. I’m a huge fan of how one video clip leads to another and then to another… While researching hat manipulations while prepping for a teaching session with Andrew Lee Potts on Tuesday I was checking up some videos that I thought might be useful resources for him to check out –
This first one is of Kris Kremo in action with a hat, cigar and ball routine then goes into his three top hat routine and finishes with his cigar box routine… It’s a classic stuff which may look a bit dated but is still pretty magical.
Kris Krimo – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzkoZH1JKmo
I also mentioned how Johnny Depp did a sort of street performance piece in the film Benny and Joon which starts with a bit of hat manipulation… Andrew seemed interested in seeing this, so I tracked down this clip on Youtube for him…
Benny & Joon – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBafYlgSCXs
A few years ago now Chris Bliss made a big splash with this video of a juggling routine to a soundtrack provided from the Beatles Abby Road Album.
Chris Bliss – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8f8drk5Urw
This video really seemed to hit a chord with the public, though a lot of jugglers were left unimpressed by the actual technical level of juggling. Jason Garfield went as far as to create the Chris Bliss Diss Video in which he created a routine to the same music but used five balls instead of three.
Jason Garfield – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYUXaYCkv-A
One of my favorite juggling videos in recent years shows off the juggling talents of Vova Galchenko and the video mastery of Mark Bakalor. The video was featured in Time Magazine, The New York Times, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, The Ellen Degeneres Show, ESPN, Nightline and more and is amazing!
Vova Galchenko – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEb3YknGUks
One of my all time favorite beginning to end juggling routines has to be AirJazz’s club juggling routine. I got to meet Peter, Kezia and Jon in 1985 while traveling with Holly Greeley, then Championships Director of the International Jugglers Association. Their club is still one of my favorite
AirJazz – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRGk2tb3eJg
Got some favorites of your own? Please do list them in the comments section. I’d love to check them out.
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 Where in the world am I today?: North Vancouver, BC, Canada
The C.A.M.P. (Circus And Magic Partnership) program organized by the Winnipeg International Children’s Festival runs a Northern C.A.M.P. for a week and another in Winnipeg the week following. For the Northern run, instructors fly into Winnipeg and take a tour bus North bringing with them a ton of circus props that end up being left in the community so that students get to use the equipment and continue to work on the skills they’ve learned even after the program packs up and head to Winnipeg. For the instructors the trip North is a multi-hour experience which can become a bit mind numbing… Not this year though… Someone from the crew brought a copy of the First Season of an HBO TV Series called ‘The Flight of the Conchords.’ and everyone got sucked into the unique charms the New Zealand Comic Musical Duo comprised of Jermaine Clement and Bret Mckenzie, their hapless manager Murray and the small cast of supporting roles.
I wasn’t actually on the Northern trip this year though, so all I got while I was in Winnipeg was references to a show that most of the instructors had seen, but didn’t mean a thing to me… Until now… After joining the STAR Princess a week ago I finally sat down and made my way through the first season of The Flight of the Conchords HBO TV Series.
Suddenly all of the references made sense and the reasons this quirky TV show had such an appeal to the happy family of misfits that staff C.A.M.P. became apparent. The show is funny. The relationship between the characters works, the comedy songs that are liberally sprinkled through out the episodes and the goofy choreography that goes along with them is just the right mix of ridiculousness combined with an underlying respect to the genre being parodied. I found myself laughing out loud again and again.
It’s not a series for everyone… I watched episode #1 with my wife and she got to the end of it and didn’t need to watch another, but I think for anyone who’s worked as a performer the fun and irony of the situations that are portrayed in the series are well worth the time to check out.
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 Where in the world am I today?: At Sea Aboard the Grand Princess
When I saw the trailer for this documentary a few months ago I was intrigued and eventually tracked down a copy at our local library. Annie Leibovitz has had an effect on me for years because along with loving the feeling of being on stage and performing, I love the process of crafting the look and feel that goes into promoting a show and somewhere inside myself have a strong desire to capture and chronicle the journey I’m living… A ton of these sentiments were echoed in the documentary about a celebrity photographer who helped turn portraiture into pop culture.
I think for any performer looking at promoting their work through still images, having a look at a book of Annie Leibovitz’s work will give you some wonderful ideas of how to craft a shot that will tell more to a potential client than just what you look like. Through her work for Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Vogue and others, Annie has been given license to craft images that seem to leap off the page.
There’s a wonderful moment in the documentary when a photo critic makes a comment about Annie’s work and says something to the effect that although some pictures can tell a story, many of Annie’s pictures are one-liners… The critic almost sounds cynical when she delivers the comment, but for me, a quality one-liner beats a book of a thousand pages, if the one liner is remembered.
Often, when your promotional material rolls across the desk of a potential client, you’re only given about the same amount of time that you’d get to tell your one-liner. If you don’t strike a chord on some level in that first ten to fifteen seconds you may never get a second chance, so that first impression has to be a lasting one.
The documentary dose a pretty great job of capturing the life of an artist, both the triumphs as well as the disappointments. Beyond the work though there’s a sense while watching the piece that you’re seeing the challenges faced when trying to juggle career with personal relationships and the need for one’s own life and interests in the middle of it all. In her relentless pursuit for quality I was touched by the enthusiasm she has for her craft and yet an occasional sense that on some assignments she feels like a bit of an impostor. Going from shooting Rock and Roll one day to shooting Fashion the next and not necessarily feeling like she had the tools at her disposal to pull it off echoed for me the feelings I had when I went from being a performer at festivals and fairs to working on cruise ships.
Artist, celebrity, enthusiastic creator of images that have embedded themselves in our pop culture, Annie Leibovitz is all of these and I enjoyed this documentary as it gave me a window into her world.
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 Where in the world am I today?: North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Since posting my review of “Man on Wire” last week I’ve had conversations with a couple of friends and their take on the film and on things that I hadn’t originally commented on…
One friend even shared with me a digital version of a brochure that Petit created after he had accomplished the coup August 7, 1974… Which is where the image above came from… Another had this to say –
“The astounding lesson for me was how abandoned his friends and his lover felt by the end of the mission. Petit seemed to have learned (and taught) many important lessons for performers and artists but not of life.”
The act of walking between the towers of the World Trade Center took an act of reckless abandon to achieve. Who in their right mind would walk a 200 foot cable strung 450 meters above the ground.
The rift in Petit’s personal relationships after ‘Le Coup’ seems to have been a different sort of act of reckless abandon and although he created history on the wire, one could ask if the price he paid by loosing such close friends was actually worth it. Fame is a fickle mistress, but the beauty of life long friendships will give you strength long after the Fame has faded…
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