2011 was a year of Lohan/Kardashian/Weiner-type scandals that should have been a blip on our radar, but instead overwhelmed our social consciousness. "The Photographs of Your Junk (Will Be Publicized)" sifts through all the junk and offers an apt digesting of where our culture stands -- it just might make you feel sick afterwards. Written and directed by actor/comedian Ronnie Butler Jr, the spoken word-style social commentary is modeled after Gil Scott-Heron's 1971 political poem/song, "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised." Scott-Heron's message is just as fitting today, and Butler Jr. smoothly updates it, placing our obsession with "junk" in the context of social media.
"The piece serves as a reminder to everyone -- myself included -- that we have to stay awake so that the technology at our fingertips doesn't become a tool of the 'establishment' keeping us distracted from what really matters," Butler said.
Butler's...
"The piece serves as a reminder to everyone -- myself included -- that we have to stay awake so that the technology at our fingertips doesn't become a tool of the 'establishment' keeping us distracted from what really matters," Butler said.
Butler's...
- 1/9/2012
- by Gazelle Emami
- Huffington Post
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