I interviewed a great-aunt for a women's studies essay during my undergrad years! fun times.
actually ... it's nice to think I've still got those tapes with her voice on them.
who will be lucky enough to grace your chair? and why?
p.s. as a kid I had a kid-sized lawn chair exactly like the one in the picture (design-wise; the pattern was different, but it was similarly flowered and 1970s-ish).
See, that's what I was thinking about. I've been day-dreaming all day about taking the opportunity of going back home for the holidays to interview some of my older relatives. Taking portraits too, and then making a book or something out of it all.
Lucky kid! I like that chair a lot. Ah, garbage days...
Wow. What was the project? What was the interview like? I want to interview some relatives of mine, although I'm not exactly sure about what yet. It would be nice to tie it all together with something specific. Did you prepare your questions, or just let conversation take you?
it's a project i'm currently doing on representations of female sexuality and gender in the portrait, and i wanted to do a sculpture of this 90-year old philosopher my uncle was very good friends with. i sat down and had a little notepad of a few prepared questions, but soon enough we were speaking comfortably without the guidelines (she was incredibly lucid). basically it was a wonderful conversation about the body and human interactions over some tea, so i think if you go in with the expectations of just having a conversation and letting the tangents fly where they will you will get the gemstones. although, i do think it's good to go in with some sort of idea of what you really want to discuss, but it's not essential. good luck with your interviews! i'm anxious to see what kind of product will come out of this.
how do you follow up the interview with material. whats the thinking process. like when it comes time for writing up a paper. any advice? for when you began, what was the motivation.
For interviewing myself or the likes of Brooks and Dunn?
All of this is real, true Gonzo Journalism at the finest end of it. And the interviewing yourself bit is the easist self-portrait you'll ever attempt. Advance questions that you'd think a good interviewer would ask you. [Pretend you're on Charlie Rose or something. And he is prying for your best secrets with a scalpel and an adverb.] You can then work this list of both tough and frivolous questions out and feel proud and email them to yourself and leave it marked unread for a andful of days. Weeks. Until you forget.
Like ordering books from the library and getting a call saying they are ready. I invariably forget what my brain was in lust with that certain day and it is like winning a contest every time.
[www.futureme.org would be nice for this, no? I am inspired to do it again now.]
Oh, right, of course! That was silly of me... Do you have one question you keep tucked away, for emergency situations where you can't think of anything? I mean, I imagine it would be hard to interview someone if they just answered in yes and no. A secret weapon question, like, soooooo... on the scale of one to ten, how much has lou reed influenced you? But maybe less cheesy?
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actually ... it's nice to think I've still got those tapes with her voice on them.
who will be lucky enough to grace your chair? and why?
p.s. as a kid I had a kid-sized lawn chair exactly like the one in the picture (design-wise; the pattern was different, but it was similarly flowered and 1970s-ish).
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Lucky kid! I like that chair a lot. Ah, garbage days...
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I want to interview some relatives of mine, although I'm not exactly sure about what yet. It would be nice to tie it all together with something specific.
Did you prepare your questions, or just let conversation take you?
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Vincent Gallo is one of my favorites.
Vincent Gallo especially likes to interview himself.
I like interviewing myself too. How 'bout you?
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All of this is real, true Gonzo Journalism at the finest end of it. And the interviewing yourself bit is the easist self-portrait you'll ever attempt. Advance questions that you'd think a good interviewer would ask you. [Pretend you're on Charlie Rose or something. And he is prying for your best secrets with a scalpel and an adverb.] You can then work this list of both tough and frivolous questions out and feel proud and email them to yourself and leave it marked unread for a andful of days. Weeks. Until you forget.
Like ordering books from the library and getting a call saying they are ready. I invariably forget what my brain was in lust with that certain day and it is like winning a contest every time.
[www.futureme.org would be nice for this, no? I am inspired to do it again now.]
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Do you have one question you keep tucked away, for emergency situations where you can't think of anything? I mean, I imagine it would be hard to interview someone if they just answered in yes and no. A secret weapon question, like, soooooo... on the scale of one to ten, how much has lou reed influenced you? But maybe less cheesy?
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