Pretentious bollocksPossibly the worst event I ever went to was an evening of turntablists in London. The lights went down, the first guy put a cymbal onto a turntable, dropped the needle on it and left it making screeching noises for ten minutes.
When the lights came up, half the audience had snuck out.
What's the most pretentious rubbish you've ever been to see in the name of art?
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chthonic, Wed 28 Sep 2005, 14:19)
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Protest Training CourseI worked at an entertainment magazine in Canada, and the editor sent me on assignment to photograph some sort of protest training session shortly before a G8 demonstration in Montreal.
The day was spent mostly with training sessions about what to do in case of police attack and all sorts of safety tips, including home remedies for pepper spray. I saved my camera for the final thing, which sounded like it would be more photogenic. Some kind of demonstration.
So the demonstration comes, and they put on hippie music, and everyone starts moving around the room, dancing, walking, skipping, whatever their weird little hippie hearts wanted. It's apparently an exercise where you're supposed to explore your boundaries with other people. I backed out of the room and took off running.
My editor was very displeased with me.
(, Thu 29 Sep 2005, 5:38, Reply)
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