Brad Pitt in your living room
Look what I just found…
OK, so you’ve had a crush on Brad Pitt since “Thelma and Louise,” but you thought you might be just a bit, uh, old to hang a life-size image of him on your wall … in his skivvies.
Well, not anymore. Now you can suspend a huge, moving, breathing portrait of Brad for all to see – for you’ll be bringing cutting-edge art into your home: Acclaimed experimental theater artist Robert Wilson, renowned for his avant-garde design work and spectacles such as Philip Glass’ opera “Einstein on the Beach,” is finally bringing his vision to the masses.
Wilson has collaborated with Voom HD Networks on Voom Portraits, a series of more than 30 video works, to be displayed on high-definition screens – little dramas starring famous actors such as Pitt, Isabella Rossellini (as a blond-wigged, Japanese manga character), Wynona Ryder and Robert Downey Jr., as well as other celebrities, such as Princess Caroline of Monaco.
At first, the video portraits – ranging from two to 15 minutes – look like stills, but then the subject may blink an eye, move a foot, or, in Pitt’s case, slowly raise gorgeously muscled arms to shoot a water pistol at the watcher’s face.
Voom TV, available through the DISH Network, has 15 channels, including Gallery HD, says Ali Hossaini, the Voom executive who commissioned Wilson to do the portraits and wanted to have a “twist” on that fine arts channel, “where we actually would make a television into art,” he says. For the privilege of working with Wilson, he says, the actors and other subjects worked for free.
Voom will put Portraits on Gallery HD sometime in the fall, along with a documentary showing how Wilson made them. Then, if people want to record the Portraits, they can decorate their walls with Wilson’s art. Source
Notice that it’s “stars” such as Isabella Rossellini (who?!), Wynona Ryder (the stealer), Robert Downey Jr. (Drug Addict) and Princess Caroline .(are you automatically a celebrity if you have Princess or Prince in front of your name?!) What kind of stars are these?! At least the man had taste enough to add Brad Pitt. My next question is: where’s Angie?! And what would her portrait do…give birth?!
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