Comments on: The Experience Exchange http://cultureby.com/2006/04/the_experience_.html This Blog Sits At the Intersection of Anthropology and Economics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:43:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Grant http://cultureby.com/2006/04/the_experience_.html/comment-page-1#comment-4860 Grant Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:09:40 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=735#comment-4860 Amos, Maybe. Some people have argued that one of the things Shakespeare accomplished was the transplantation of the theatre of the streets of London into the theatres thereof, and I think what I am proposing is a modest contribution to the opposite flow. Moving theatrics out of the theatre back into the street, the better to aid people in their transformation objectives. Thanks, Grant (p.s., and I would have thought that a guy who sometimes acts like a Victorian South Asian this would be unmysterious.) Amos, Maybe. Some people have argued that one of the things Shakespeare accomplished was the transplantation of the theatre of the streets of London into the theatres thereof, and I think what I am proposing is a modest contribution to the opposite flow. Moving theatrics out of the theatre back into the street, the better to aid people in their transformation objectives. Thanks, Grant
(p.s., and I would have thought that a guy who sometimes acts like a Victorian South Asian this would be unmysterious.)

]]> By: Amos Bray http://cultureby.com/2006/04/the_experience_.html/comment-page-1#comment-4859 Amos Bray Thu, 06 Apr 2006 18:52:35 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=735#comment-4859 G- what you want is to be an actor~! Yes I can personally commend the stage (if you want the imaginative part) and/or the screen (if you want the visceral part) to step into another's shoes and come close to breaking them in without wearing them out. If you'll bear with me: it's kinda like your idea of hiring other people to live these additional aspects/dimensions of your life/lives... it's just that the person/people you're hiring is/are... you! (Jeez, forgive the rampant virgulization of this post.) Brando, I think it was in his Playboy interview back around 1979, talked about the ordinariness, the everydayness of acting in quotidian life. His comment, and I've approximated it badly, is rich and I won't do it justice here. But acting as a skilled practice has relevance for these matters. Also: the "playing" aspect of it all, the connection to the unfettered, then the letting go, moving on to another part (emotional danger; physical security). -ab G- what you want is to be an actor~! Yes I can personally commend the stage (if you want the imaginative part) and/or the screen (if you want the visceral part) to step into another’s shoes and come close to breaking them in without wearing them out. If you’ll bear with me: it’s kinda like your idea of hiring other people to live these additional aspects/dimensions of your life/lives… it’s just that the person/people you’re hiring is/are… you! (Jeez, forgive the rampant virgulization of this post.) Brando, I think it was in his Playboy interview back around 1979, talked about the ordinariness, the everydayness of acting in quotidian life. His comment, and I’ve approximated it badly, is rich and I won’t do it justice here. But acting as a skilled practice has relevance for these matters. Also: the “playing” aspect of it all, the connection to the unfettered, then the letting go, moving on to another part (emotional danger; physical security). -ab

]]> By: Grant http://cultureby.com/2006/04/the_experience_.html/comment-page-1#comment-4858 Grant Thu, 06 Apr 2006 12:12:43 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=735#comment-4858 Dan T., thanks for your comment, I don't think National Geographical actually served the cause of vicarious consumption. Indeed, the charge against it was that it worked to emphasize cultural distance not collapse it. This plus the salacious motives of many readers do not make it, for my money, a vicarious consumption opportunity. And certainly, as Peter points out, there is nothing customized about this experience. NG feels more like an exercise in the old mass media. Thanks, Grant Peter, thank you, well said, Best, Grant Brian, very interesting, thanks for the link. Best, Grant On a last note, thanks to PSFK, I discovered this website, and it really seems to open up the touristic experience in some extraordinary ways. http://yellowarrow.net/index2.php. Check out the Secret New York project. Very interesting. Dan T., thanks for your comment, I don’t think National Geographical actually served the cause of vicarious consumption. Indeed, the charge against it was that it worked to emphasize cultural distance not collapse it. This plus the salacious motives of many readers do not make it, for my money, a vicarious consumption opportunity. And certainly, as Peter points out, there is nothing customized about this experience. NG feels more like an exercise in the old mass media. Thanks, Grant

Peter, thank you, well said, Best, Grant

Brian, very interesting, thanks for the link. Best, Grant

On a last note, thanks to PSFK, I discovered this website, and it really seems to open up the touristic experience in some extraordinary ways. http://yellowarrow.net/index2.php.
Check out the Secret New York project. Very interesting.

]]> By: Brian Kenny http://cultureby.com/2006/04/the_experience_.html/comment-page-1#comment-4857 Brian Kenny Thu, 06 Apr 2006 11:30:29 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=735#comment-4857 Take a look at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Colorado. Vicarious tourism is already generating revenue. www.crowcanyon.org Take a look at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Colorado. Vicarious tourism is already generating revenue. http://www.crowcanyon.org

]]> By: Peter http://cultureby.com/2006/04/the_experience_.html/comment-page-1#comment-4856 Peter Tue, 04 Apr 2006 13:04:20 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=735#comment-4856 DanT -- National Geographic is not personalized, so I see Grant's neat idea as being more than just new media spin on NG. An article on the world's museums of musical instruments is not going to give me the experience of playing the clavichord in each one. But I could request William, my foreign life-style avatar, do this for me, and ask him to send me back videos from his cell-phone and blog-posts as he does, while at the same time he is sending another of his clients clips and reports of his attempts to play the ophicleides. DanT –

National Geographic is not personalized, so I see Grant’s neat idea as being more than just new media spin on NG. An article on the world’s museums of musical instruments is not going to give me the experience of playing the clavichord in each one. But I could request William, my foreign life-style avatar, do this for me, and ask him to send me back videos from his cell-phone and blog-posts as he does, while at the same time he is sending another of his clients clips and reports of his attempts to play the ophicleides.

]]> By: DanT http://cultureby.com/2006/04/the_experience_.html/comment-page-1#comment-4855 DanT Tue, 04 Apr 2006 11:51:35 +0000 http://localhost/wp_culture/?p=735#comment-4855 National Geographic thought up this concept over 100 years ago. Become a member and explore the world vicariously through the magazine. What you describe is a new media spin on the NG magazine. You can get some of that at the NG web site (more images and articles, computer wallpaper, sounds and videos). National Geographic thought up this concept over 100 years ago. Become a member and explore the world vicariously through the magazine.

What you describe is a new media spin on the NG magazine. You can get some of that at the NG web site (more images and articles, computer wallpaper, sounds and videos).

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