In the shower this morning I was thinking about the YouTube video above. In another "hidden camera" video, an outhouse is rigged so that the roof opens up and the floor is pushed up, exposing the man squatting in mid-poop to startled beach goers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsDbOMJOMgQ
I cannot imagine the show being produced in America. The manic sense of entitlement would unleash a tidal wave of litigation. Imagine a wall opening up in a gallery and exposing a curator grimacing in mid-log to the black-garbed and white wine sipping crowd. There would be an instant lawsuit for defamation (defecation) of character and psychic trauma. Perhaps this is why a gallery full of contemporary art is one of the safest places to be: social boundaries are never challenged.
On the train to Venice I was trapped in a car with four fat whiney Americans who were under constant challenges: The food wasn't the same as back home, the transportation confusing and subject to delay, and the prices were too high, made worse by a weak dollar and touristy locations. Perhaps this is why WalMart and McDonald's does so well: they're cheap, fast, and consistent.
I would like to bury every American with a dollar. Not like past cultures that entombed the dead with money for use in the afterlife, but symbolic of the money they saved by denying themselves an overpriced Gelatto.
August 7, 2007
Japanese Hidden Camera Video
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