It's not that I was aiming to be blasphemous, I just like Dinosaurs and Jesus cutouts. I was inspired by a stand-up bit by Eddie Izzard where he talks about Jesus visiting the Dinosaurs and them biting his head off. The reason I chose to do the style I did was that I thought it would be amusing to use recycled products and have a sort of D.I.Y. air to the project. Scavenging materials from the rubbish bin ended up giving an interesting visual style, I thought. However, it would have been good to take it a few steps further, use yarn and natural items such as branches or dried weeds. I was also inspired by the music video by Cat Solen for the Bright Eyes song A Bowl of Oranges, which can be seen here. Video. The intention of the video was to be humorous and intentionally "low-fi". A tabletop video is the place for experimentation, absolutely, but it is also an extremely limiting venue for a performance. You have to get creative, and I thought that the strength of my piece was perhaps no in the performance, but in the props that were used.
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