jessica rose - bree

+ A Google image search for “Jessica Rose” produces thumbnails of Jessica, aka “Bree,” from the Clyne modelling agency of New Zealand. (The full images to which the thumbnails point, however, have been removed).
www.clyne.co.nz

Screens - Applause for lonelygirl15 - Virginia Heffernan - New York Times Blog
cmmts... 145 comments so far
-You know what? I’m surprised to say that I care more about the meaning of the band-aid in the last video than about Bree’s real identity. I guess I figured out it was fake a while back, and have just been enjoying it for what it is. -Sally
-We just like watching things that happen somewhere we’re not. -Vanessa
-The most interesting thing you revealed is that there apparently will be no more youtube vids– that they will be made available on some other site [run by them] instead. And I think that is stupid, frankly, unless youtube actually told them they didn’t want to host them anymore. All of her fans are at youtube– why force them to go to some other site?
-I was never interested in miss lonelygirl15… but I was fascinated by her fans.
-I had no interest in anything on You Tube until I heard that this was a “hoax…” Real day to day life is not especially interesting. Give me something with a screenwriter anytime.

-In its early manifestations, the novel relied on the popular convention of make-believe truthfulness — “found” Arabic manuscripts in Don Quixote indeed indeed, “discovered” correspondences between dead lovers in any number of epistolary novels, and so on. Back then, fiction was lies, and lies were immoral — but everyone new these books weren’t really the real truth. It was originally perhaps a symbolic, but obligatory, nod to the atmosphere of religious censorship, plus there is that extra shivery bit of pleasure from imagining that a story MIGHT be true. See also more contemporary examples — Nabokov’s “Lolita,” for one.
tone here rather ~didactic but what said surprisingly intelligent (surprising bcs high falutin informativing cmmts like this usu betray a small mind?)
..What did James Frey, J.T. LeRoy, and now the creators of LonelyGirl truly stand to gain by presenting their stories as real? There’s the any-press-is-good-press scandal element (after all, they got us talking!), and the constructed-identity-as-artistic-statement element — but in all three cases, the creators were outed against their will.
..would they have preferred it if everyone continued to believe the truth of their accounts, forever (thereby nullifying both the scandal and, to some extent, the artistic-statement possibilities)? If the latter, again: Why?
Well. Quote:
“Unless Osama Bin Laden releases a video directly to YouTube instead of Al Jazeera, I think the NYTimes should drop that area of coverage.”
Do we really not care anymore about anything but the material facts of our world–particularly those facts that put us in bodily danger? Is imagination a waste of time? Is fiction immoral? usu this kind qstn unint to me; but here given relevance as response to the quoted argument (made in several of cmmts I skimmed) that VirginiaH shld not be talking abt this
Global terrorism, by god! We have no time to waste on childish make-believe!
Do the narrative arts continue to become more polarized — either popular, soothing, and meaningless, or powerful, brilliant, and obscure? nicely described; but I don't follow - which of these corresponds to fake reality? I guess that's the popular narratives -? pretending to be true 'to get our attn'. but. that dsnt preclude brilliance ~?
Do more and more theater, film, and fiction artists turn to fake reality? Or do we as audiences give the imagination the space it deserves, to interpret and represent aspects of experience that can’t be fought with wars and bombs?
huh. good.
though. I don't think 'fake reality' is dangerous & demeaning. which, therefore, I didn't cut & paste.. anyway maybe it is actually, might be kind of morality I dont have good feel for. -logically- dsnt seem that pretending-to-be-real (always) demeans. a masquerade can do various things right? it's not always the one thing.