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The Real St. John Smythe » Musings

The Real St. John Smythe

Fast Exits

November 14th, 2005

IBS DiagramA number of you whom have already had the chance to see Come Fly With Me Nude wanted to know why I up and left so quickly at the end of the interview with Dom & Bella.

I hadn’t really thought that it was even slightly unusual, and I can’t help but start to see Dom & Bella’s point about the film’s negative representation of its subjects.
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Film Arts Festival

November 7th, 2005

Paton ChairOn Saturday, 5th November, I made yet another visit to San Francisco. This time it was for the a “work in progress” screening of the soon to be legendary film “Come Fly With Me Nude”. Not wanting to upstage my dear friends, I snook in after the initial announcements and left before the titles finished crawling by.

Much as I can see my friends’, Dom & Bella’s, point about being cast in less than serious light, I have to say that maybe OD TV’s editorial choices are not so far off the prescribed mark. For, though I did laugh until it hurt, I also felt moved to tears and a deep connection to the muses and their art.
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Furnishings

October 22nd, 2005

Paton ChairSo very many of you, my show’s fans, write on a daily basis to ask about my furnishing. Well my faithful readers, here is, as they say, the skinny:

Lets start with the chairs. Those beautifully eligant curves of white polymer, sculpted to the seated body’s form. If they didn’t exist, someone would have had to invent them. They were brought into the world out of the mind of Danish Designer “Verner Panton”, and can be bough for ready cash — make that bucket loads of cash, but then that’s OD TV’s concern rather than mine.

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My Home by Joe Colombo

February 28th, 1996

VISIONA 1This titan of tenacious techno trappings once said, “The possibilities presented by the extraordinary development of audiovisual processes are enormous … Distances will no longer have much importance; no longer will there be any justification for the ‘megalopolis’ … Furnishings will disappear … the habitat will be everywhere… Now, if the elements necessary to human existence could be planned with the sole requirements of maneuverability and flexibility…,then we would create an inhabitable system that could be adapted to any situation in space and time…”
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