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EVERY DANCE IS TOO LONG
A candid conversation with Michael Weber.
A long time ago in a galaxy far far away I met magician Michael Weber. I was a elementary school kid in the 1970’s looking for the latest in magic knowledge. And Michael worked at the Los Alamitos Magic shop. To say Michael Weber had a impact on my young self is a gross understatement. You just don’t meet a guy like this everyday. Weber always made me laugh, amazed me, and was always kind to me. So how do you reconnect from a galaxy far far away, well Twitter I guess. And if you are lucky enough to know Weber its probably no surprise to you that Michael Weber is that same force of imagination, creativity and kindness, that he always was!
Lastly and as a side note if Michael Weber were to hear this podcast he would gently remind me ” every dance is too long” or “if it can be cut it must be cut”, of course he’d be correct. Alas my style of conversation (podcast) goes against many of the wonderful and wise concepts Michael offered up in our chat. Hopefully Michael’s wisdom and good sense will still prevail over my uncut unedited style of conversation. Well lets cut through this SEO-bullshit-intro, I hope you enjoy this conversation with Michael Weber as much as I did having it.
PODCAST TOPICS
- My 1970’s Michael Weber memories
- The Los Alamitos Magic Shop
- creativity
Twitter hiatus
- “see you in a year”
- I think those kinds of ridiculous arbitrary intentional um I don’t know projects practices, i think that stuff is useful to say your going to do a thing and then do it
- “wouldn’t it be great to look back and have made a thing every day for a year”
- “time travel” “telling your mind the story that this is doable” “we can really send ourselves there intellectually right we can synaptically construct that inside our head and sometimes that’s useful”
- Spontaneity
- “my brain’s a boomerang”
- Duck Duck Go
- data harvesting
- manic regression syndrome”
PERFORMANCE / EDITING
- “every dance is too long”
- “if it can be cut it must be cut”
- “the artist emerges when they are pushed into a corner”
- everything has a frame
- “deciding what to include in that frame”
MOTIVATION
- Carl Reiner
- Mel Brooks
- Artist come alive when cornered
- cooking
- Joseph Campbell.
- what one can offer in a world where we have access to everything,
- Ted Talks,
- “telling a story only they could tell”,
- “internal process of the artist is locked away inside that image”,
- “art is just another form of communication”,
- “the art within functional objects”,
- “all dances are too long”,
- “seek authenticity not approval”,
- “magic is a powerful enough art to support a weak performer”,
- the internets affect on humans,
- the caves of glascow art,
- bumping around,
- a bent paperclip,
- podcast,
- Michael York.
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