[I jotted down these thoughts in September 2014, returned several times, and relooked at it July 2016 — procrastination. Still just mulling over thoughts.]
I always have a list of projects that are in various states of completion and I hold these ready just in case I don’t want to do something “important” at present. I’m a Procrastinating Perfectionist; “If it isn’t perfect its not done — its not done so it can be put off”, “I’ll get around to making it perfect but not now”, or more importantly “If it’s not finished it can’t be judged and I don’t want it judged until it is perfect.” Whatever, I’d join Procrastinators Autonomous but …
It could be that one of the personalities that cooperate to create the whole me needs a bit more time to figure out how to make something perfect and another personality has something to do that’s just as important — “Let my subconscious work on it for a while.”
I had set a deadline for a flushed out project outline and didn’t want to work on it (meaning it wasn’t the way I really wanted it, not thought out well enough to present). Pulled out the mental list of unfinished projects and moved full steam ahead on one fanciful, or rather several variations of a fanciful one: “At the end of a multiplying bottle routine, how do you prove more than one bottle holds liquid? Pour liquid out of many bottles.” I now have four approaches to the traditional “Think A Drink”, three of which don’t follow a multiplying bottle routine. Coming up with new approaches is valuable.
The concept is quite simple: you have many bottle shells which were nested before you produced them and one of them has a compartment that holds a glass full of liquid (actually at least three of them could hold liquid); the question is how do you load more liquid into a bottle shell?
All you need to do is find several ways to load a container of liquid into an upright shell. Cups and Balls loading from servante would work, pushing up from trap in table, switching bottles, etc. are all possible methods. (If you are interested I can outline the methods in another article.) But that’s not the germ in this article. I know that if we can dream “it” we can do it, but should we do “it”. Or more importantly, should we do “it” in performance and why.
- plot , theme, and impact of multiplying bottles
- dilute theme and impact
- John Pomeroy’s memorial: 6′ square silk barehanded production followed by two feather flowers — nobody remembers because those were followed by multiplying bottles, upstaged by what followed.
- other examples
- change story or message by adding something. should we do that, when is improving actually hiding important messages. adding impact for only impact’s sake instead of reinforcing message. Create a new message.
- Multiplying bottles, followed by Multimum in parta, followed by ever filled bottles — message?