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Catchy title, no?

No more Gonzo notes. The idea is clear in my head.

Impersonate a journey!

It all makes sense. First it was Elvis, then we went on the Torpoint Ferry, then I dressed up as a fridge, and the next logically impersonation, is that of the journey.

It can be looked at it in several ways.

1. The ferry.
I said that the ferry isn't a boat because it is stuck on chains which restrict it. It is impersonating either a bridge or a train.

2. The camper van.
It's a van trying to impersonate a home. But it like the ferry is a form of transportation.

3. The fridge.
Part of the fridge thing was (though I didn't mention) that I had to carry the painted cardboard box with me into the university. It wasn't something I just popped online to show. I had to think very carefully about how to transport it from where I live to university. I decided the best way would be by car, then I'd have to find the nearest car park.


My plan is to impersonate the journey I make from university to my home.

It will mean I have to scale down my journey to a certain size/scale and film each of the three parts; walking to the station, the journey on the train from Plymouth to Totnes, driving from Totnes to home.

Gonzo Blogging

"My idea [for Gonzo Journalism] was to buy a fat notebook and record the whole thing, as it happened, then send in the notebook for publication—without editing. That way, I felt, the eye & mind of the journalist would be functioning as a camera. The writing would be selective & necessarily interpretive—but once the image was written, the words would be final"

Hunter S. Thompson, in his essay on Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream


Fridge - two required (one for cutting open, second for interior shots - must be working).

Use as prop. for movie. Movie must be voxpops, otherwise, doesn't make sense.

Or, cut fridge open, performance Mk. II. Inside the fridge is the body, contents of the fridge is inside the body.

EXCEPT!

Gases and/or liquids contained walls of fridge for usual use prevent cutting open, due to possible death(s) arising from it.

For movie, use a mock up. Put it all together in Premier/After Effects/MS Paint/glue but this problem also.

How to transport a fridge to location??!?

Forget all the above ideas.

Come up with new sparkly ideas. Based on Space.

I really wish Spore was out.

What about refuse/bin bags? Too unsightly/vulgar/smelling of plastic/tacky/obvious.

Think Batman, think.

A4 = 45p A3 = 85p

Money and wealth.

No. Doesn't work with impersonation/mimic/anything.

What abut the modem?

How could that work?

Wi-fi. Bad experiences. Modems a pain, from experience.

Some guy on his phone in the Open Access area.

Some woman the otherside of the fire doors on her mobile phone.

Divided by firedoors, phone use permitted, and restricted. Reflections in the glass.


Possible creation ridiculously restrictive signs

"Do not look left"

"Do not skip"

"Do not count pigeons"

Place in busy areas in Plymouth.

Would have to look official, so correct printing materials required. Possibly expensive for short runs. Steven Farmer possibly unhappy due to Banksy reference.



Film reaction. Film voxpops, of reaction. Mimic and mock restriction.

Seems copycat idea.

MUST TRY HARDER!

What if other people impersonate me, I put together a film of what people think are my characteristics? How does it relate? Edwin Jefferson > Fridge > Me

It makes sense. Not fridge impersonating me. People impersonating me. But hardly anyone knows me. Exactly! It is their idea of the space that I exist and create. What they expect of me. How they expect me to react. Brilliant!

Is it? Stupid self-doubt.

Must film my brother, pretending to be me. Get my mother and father to impersonate me.

It could work. If carefully edited, to create a convincing impersonation of me.

I think. Don't know what they think of me.

Could embarrass me. << Good reason to do it.