Johnnie Moore uses this video to make a rather wonderful point about the need to notice what’s round us, without constriction. Certainly, it taught me a thing or two about how unobservant I can be:
JM quotes Castaneda to support his point; I couldn’t help thinking of a William Blake line, ‘the eye sees more than the heart knows’, which concisely summarises our frequent, shared inability to find anything more in the outside world than what we already contain within ourselves.
Damn, that’s good. I watched with quiet glee that I’d noticed the butler’s rolling pin change to a candlestick, then the thing comes up asking about 21 changes!?!? Hasn’t quite got the ridiculous shock level of the moonwalking bear http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahg6qcgoay4 but the point is once again cleverly made.
Yup, it is rather fantastic – and a lovely variant on the dancing bear one, a great way of making the same point, just as strongly, with a very different set up. I love watching the choreography of the changeover, too – must have taken a lot of rehearsal to run that smoothly!