Hooray hooray, I'm so glad someone else has watched We Live In Public! I haven't seen Dig! all the way through and I didn't realise the films had the same Director til afterwards, though some of the Dandy Warhols do turn up in the underground house I think. Have you seen Join Us? That's Timoner too, and the film seems to be about some of her family, which makes me sort of goggle at her life - coming from where she has, and then joining in and living in the underground big brother project and stuff. What surprised me about We Live In Public was that it contained so much stuff (in fact everything) that I hadn't heard about before; I'd have thought that Harris would've gotten more of a mention in all the stories of internet people that've been written and mythologised over the years, or mentioned in articles about Big Brother and/or Microserfs/Gen X etc etc, but no. Or not that I'd seen anyway. All that time he spent trying to make himself famous, trying to make himself public, and yet somehow it made him more invisible than others who didn't even shoot for fame. It really did feel as if his own efforts had made him somehow more ficional than other people, less likely to be noticed. He seemed very much like a bit-part character in a hybrid Bret Easton Ellis/Douglas Rushkoff novel or something, the uncool guy that buys the drugs off the main character, that tries that little bit too hard.
(also, I'm watching Big Brother this year. Not obsessively, but if it's on I'll watch it. I think it's right that it's ending now, but I reckon it's been an important and interesting part of culture for the last 10 years. In general I find watching real people (for whatever value of real, though actually that's part of the enjoyment of it, the head-mess of knowing something's supposed to be true or real but knowing it can't be, because it's on telly) more enjoyable than watching fiction, which is why I'm been having such a phase for documentaries lately.....though in the past when I've been stressed/lost/glum/etc someone's prescribed me 'a good big dose of imaginary worlds', so I'll be going back and watching Doctor Who on the iplayer at some point too)
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Date: 2010-06-28 10:37 am (UTC)(also, I'm watching Big Brother this year. Not obsessively, but if it's on I'll watch it. I think it's right that it's ending now, but I reckon it's been an important and interesting part of culture for the last 10 years. In general I find watching real people (for whatever value of real, though actually that's part of the enjoyment of it, the head-mess of knowing something's supposed to be true or real but knowing it can't be, because it's on telly) more enjoyable than watching fiction, which is why I'm been having such a phase for documentaries lately.....though in the past when I've been stressed/lost/glum/etc someone's prescribed me 'a good big dose of imaginary worlds', so I'll be going back and watching Doctor Who on the iplayer at some point too)