A Little More Interesting
On several occasions I’ve been trying to figure out how to embed videos on my blog pages. I can do it through other sites and in Dreamweaver, but for some reason my blog service wasn’t allowing embedded video code to work. I’m not sure what’s changed, but it’s working now, and here’s the inaugural video to start things off:
Strangely enough, anatomical correctness wouldn’t make this video any more interesting. Shot in the tradition of Hollywood sex scenes (showing everything but the actual parts), it illustrates beautifully the disconnectedness between literal sex and sexuality.
September 17th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Jason,
My own computer won’t play this video but I finally saw it this past weekend. It certainly demonstrates how our expectations are shaped by what we are exposed to.
This made me think about the connection between expectations and fantasy. Perhaps they are two ends of the same dimension, expectations being more concerned with external influences and fantasy with internal ones.
I am not a person who fantasizes much. I think that that makes it easier for me to satisfied when interacting with others. When the other person has lots of fantasies it is difficult, and sometimes impossible, to deal with them.
Watching the Barbie-Ken video reminded me of your own “Barely Legal” and I went back and watched it again for the tenth or eleventh time. I love it. I guess that if I were going to make myself have a fantasy, seeing you do it in person who be a nice expecation!
Robert
October 8th, 2007 at 8:24 am
Jason,
I saw Wendell Comperry face to face a week ago last Friday and just before that we exchanged emails. I was brought up short by the fact that the way I use the word “expectations” may be quite different from the way other people use it. Still I hope what I said above makes sense to the readers of your blog.
I think that what Wendell was saying at least included the idea that when one says that one has no expectations that that in and of itself is an expection.
Robert