Stuck in the South End Art Hop

Here is Eva Sollberger’s excellent capsule summary of this year’s Art Hop. If you don’t live in the area and have wondered what all this “Art Hop” stuff is that I go on about every September, watch the video. Eva does a lovely job of capturing the gist, the feel… the gestalt, if you will, of Art Hop. Plus, this video features me saying things like…

The Art Hop is like Paris in the 20s
People who live in the north end suck
The Art Hop is more about socializing than art-viewing

In my own defense, these comments were taken somewhat out of context (except for north-enders sucking, because they totally do!) and I’d been drinking a bit at the time of the interview, but I stand by my statements all the same.

Yay, Art Hop!

Of course, there are other opinions too.

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On September 10, 2008, Amber LeMay said:

Bill, I couldn’t agree with you more about the gestaltiness of Eva’s piece. What she captured in a mere few hours looks like it occured over days, nights, weeks.

The only thing that would’ve made it better would’ve been a few more drag queens.

Hugs,
Amber LeMay
President,
League of Drag Queen Voters
“Don’t blow it… VOTE!”
On September 10, 2008, Nathan Beaman said:

I am southend convert to north end —

we is gonna rumble
On September 11, 2008, Rob said:

I’ve never heard of Art Hop not being from Burlington and the video did leave me thinking it was at least several days long.
On September 12, 2008, Eva Sollberger said:

Bill! Thanks for posting this and for letting me interview you and twist your words around in the editing room! Snip, snip!

This video was shot from 5pm-2am Friday night at as many Art Hop locations as I could get to.

I edited 2 hours of footage down to 5 minutes (which is my normal average/video) and sadly, a ton of people got cut.

I had a whole section on each artist and why they do what they do (paint junk, make stained glass trees, let the fabric tell them what clothes to design) but I had to cut it out for time. ARGH!

And Bill! I loved your fuller statements which made a lot more sense! They were there in the first cut but by my 15th pass they had been whittled down to what you see here, but a ghost of the original.

I blame short attention spans.

I wish people would watch longer videos on the web but I know I am already pushing it at 5 minutes.

Ah well, ’til next year, ART HOP!
On September 12, 2008, billsimmon said:

I know the need to cut, cut, cut well, Eva. Nice work.