I’ve updated the Old Friends Gallery with a few new…uh, old faces.
Why wait to reap the benefits of pension discounts? Send a pic to fun (at) pravda23 (dot) com and get old. Remember: eye contact and well-lit, straight, unobstructed shots. Help an old man grow the gallery (I’m shot number 6).
I spoke to a prostitute the other day to find out how much she charges, how often she sees clients, how she got into it and how she sees the men and women who pull over for business.
I tried something new again yesterday, with some success. I posted a comment on my Pravda23 Facebook wall saying “I’m bored. Reply to this comment and I’ll turn it into a song and post a video.”
The results were quite interesting. Obviously everyone had something song request, which I had to filter by following up with “original lyrics only, please.” Soon, the wall had loads of responses and I managed to compose, record and upload four instantaneous music videos for my fans within the space of about an hour! Each video was humorously published within 15 minutes with all the press fanfare of an established, rights-protected #1 hit record! I’m trying it out again today.
As with nearly everything I do through Pravda23 (or rather, as it does through me), the Instant Facebook Comment Music Video experiment is an attempt to keep alive my inclination to experiment with art. Thus far, I’ve experimented with:
Art is becoming more spontaneous. As the musician middle class emerges, we’re noticing a trend in audience participation, social networking and the crucial fan interactivity which keeps popular artists on their toes. The eventual goal of Pravda23 is to be able to create a spontaneous, live dance music set “on-the-fly” by combining customized software instruments, dance loops, live instrumentation and the contributions of members of the so-called “audience”.
Pravda23 was recently featured alongside other ‘underground famous’ bands The Beams and The Sleepers on Ancient Shark of Despair. Also at the party is Gav, who is fantastic, and whose guitar I still play after 5 years of permanent borrowing. We helped out with a track called Landlord (listen below). Sharks are people too. Get to know the ASoD here.
Meeting online user pravda23 in 2005 [An Unbelievably True Story] gave me a personal experience of physical, real-world interaction with a plugin. I realised that since the Dawning of the First Prototype, everyday relationships with web domains, avatars, forum handles and social networking profiles was soon to become part of the essence of urban society. Next time you’re standing in the latte queue, you may be standing behind a Mozilla add-on (although not likely, as they tend to stick to herbal tea.)
It’s not as hard as you think getting published in The Tatler, the unofficial mouthpiece of white, middle-class paranoia. Just write ‘em a letter you think they’d like to read.
Right, who’s up for the name-and-shame game we call Trash Talk? You know, the game where someone sneaks a portable recording device into a room when nobody’s looking and records conversations? A few new ones added today, including:
I did it! I cracked the code for Ben’s bike lock that’s been lying around the house because everyone forgot the code. Using a template divided into blocks of thousands and hundreds, I began going through every number in the four-digit code individually, giving it a little jiggle each time. Almost ten thousand combinations. Here’s how…
Sneak in a portable recording device when nobody’s watching. Record conversations. Name them after the first and last topic of discussion, to chart conversation flow.
