The protagonist, Alonso Quixano, is a country gentleman who has read so many stories of chivalry that he descends into fantasy and becomes convinced he is a knight errant. Together with his earthy squire Sancho Panza, the self-styled “Don Quixote de la Mancha” sets out in search of adventure. The “lady” for whom Quixote seeks to toil is Dulcinea del Toboso, an imaginary object crafted from a neighbouring farmgirl (her real name is Aldonza Lorenzo) by the illusion-struck “knight” to be the object of his courtly love. “Dulcinea” is totally unaware of Quixote’s feelings for her and does not actually appear in the novel.
Nelson and I shot a commercial this weekend in Vermont. This man stopped by the shoot out on the sidewalk in downtown Burlington, and Nelson filmed him for about 6 minutes. This is unedited except for color correction.
I joined the herd last week and started using Twitter. Ever since, I’ve been trying to come up with a name for the people who use it. Like a gaggle of geese, or a lamentation of swans. Because that’s just something I do.
There are a lot of people on there, spouting off about one thing or another. Sometimes it’s mundane, sometimes it’s poetic. Mostly though it’s illustrative of the phenomenon that may or may not have a scientific name yet, but has to do with the desire to tell other people about yourself and the relative ease with which this is possible thanks to El Internet. It’s why webloggers talk about their cats, and vloggers videotape their cats.
Charles Hope posted a link to a collection of aphorisms by Werner Erhard the other day, and one of them stuck out at me:
“I know that you know that I love you. What I want you to know is that I know you love me.”
We want to show people how human we are, how much we can love.
Anyway, my first thoughts about what to call Twitter users were along the lines of a “Trivial of Twitterers” or a “Trifling of Twitterers“. But digging a little deeper under the froth of Twitter activity led me to something more like a “Transport of Twitterers” or a “Thrive of Twitterers” or maybe even an “Indemnification of Twitterers“.
(note: just testing to see if I can block out that hideous Revver logo with some CSS. guess so.)
Click above to play a pointless story about a battery pack descending from a mountaintop, or download the Quicktime video.
This is an attempt to monetize a meaningless piece of crap that I made after not sleeping from Thursday - Sunday this weekend; it’s time to call in reinforcements in the form of a strong central nervous system depressant/hypnotic.
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