Classics are made new again. The Lexington Avenue Gap Store in Manhattan has window displays featuring Audrey Hepburn, coinciding with the new tv ads showing Ms. Hepburn dancing a la style of the i-Pod ads. Is this real? Is this graphically manipulated? Is this old made new via digital technology? It is cool, according to the 18 year-old, who click-clicked to find the YouTube video of the ad. The tv ad is "disturbing," according to an Upper East Side doctor and parent of a two year-old girl. New is old, old is new... it is all recursive, reinterpreted, remade... Postmodernism!
Current studies: Aristotle and rhetoric at the moment and considering studying Plato as the original media theorist, avant Marshall McLuhan. In studying political communications, Pew Research Political Typology has a simple online survey that can tell you politcally where you fit -- red state, blue state, etc. Some students want to study new media and the theatre of political rhetoric with a focus on Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Tickets are booked for a year in advance, supposedly, for the Comedy Central shows.
If your kids are going to college, Harvard is dropping early admissions because it is a disadvantage to the disavantaged and NYU has a theatre production to prepare students for college life: date rape, drinking, anorexia, drugs, depression and suicide.
Miss Cellania had a good post on pregnancy yesterday. How she can compile all the information on the topics each day is amazing to me! Linky-love: sharing the network blogosphere buzz power!
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue? The blue is from ancient Rome -- the symbol of love.
Remember what your mother always told you: An Apple A Day Keeps the Doctor Away. It is true.
Photo: Paramount Pictures publicity still.
How I do it: I'm unmarried, unemployed, insomniac, and I have a system. What I don't have is a life.
Posted by: Miss Cellania | September 13, 2006 at 07:58 PM
Love the political typology quiz. Not surprisingly, it says I'm a Liberal. I don't agree with everything that Liberals are expected to agree with, but it does explain how I vote. Can't wait to find out what it says the relatives I forwarded it to are. Smart money says they're not all Liberals...
Posted by: Kathy | September 13, 2006 at 10:08 PM
I love the new Gap ads with Audrey dancing in her inimitable classy way to the beat of AC/DC. Awesome stuff, in my humble opinion.
Posted by: Jennifer | September 14, 2006 at 02:07 PM
About apples, we have the same rhyming saying in French
Une pomme chaque jour éloigne le docteur pour toujours.
Posted by: Claude | September 15, 2006 at 12:30 PM