Instant Video #28 — Reflector by Tammy Lin Foreman (4 min. 2009) Directed, shot, and edited by Lester Alfonso for the collaborative weekly video project that ran from 2008 to 2010.
Check out also: The Instant Video Showcase and Before Instant Videos featuring videos prior to the Instant Video project and broadcast on CBC’s ZeD TV. Audio tracks are available for purchase on Tammy Lin Foreman’s Bandcamp page.
Mirror, Mirror
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
I’m up early. I send Sunny off to school and find myself alone with a double espresso WiFi surfing at the café. I’m looking for an article I read a long time ago. I’m wondering if I can find it somewhere on the internet.
Tammy’s new song reminds me of something I read by Deepak Chopra. I type in: “The Mirror of Relationships” and get the page I want right away on a website called Knol – it’s Google’s answer to Wikipedia with articles licensed under Creative Commons so it allows me to copy, distribute and transmit the work.
Deepak Chopra believes we can use “the mirror of relationships to transform our consciousness.” He says “Each of us inhabits a private world although our private world is enmeshed with each other to create a consensual reality.”
“As applied to relationships, the mirror of relationship becomes an important tool for personal transformation and ultimately social change as well. There is one simple principle to follow: those that we love and are emotionally attracted to, and those that we are distressed or repelled by emotionally, are both mirrors of our own self. We are attracted to those people in whom we find traits that we have and we want more of and we are repelled by those in whom we find traits that we deny in ourselves.”
Deepak Chopra “The Mirror of Relationships”
Reflector is a totally new song without a previous incarnation as anything else. The seed for the song came out of a spontaneous jam Tammy did when she discovered that she actually had two loopers working simultaneously. Tammy built up a song and put it together for this video-only world premiere just like previous videos Is it Alright? and Stars!
I don’t know if Tammy was inspired by the Chopra idea but I think it’s worthwhile to share these thoughts. I’m glad the internet makes it easier to share these little “units of knowledge.” Anything that could possibly promote positive social change is worth spreading.
Reflector by Tammy Lin Foreman oh wah la la la la la lo la talka talka talka talka talka all day talka talka talka talka the things you say talka reflect me and your words are a looking glass to my present, future, and my past and it's all becoming clear your heart and your soul they make me feel whole the more that you are near you're my mirror you're my mirror reflector reflector reflector you're my mirror so talka talka to me i love to see what is real what is true what is coming through the mirror that is you oh wah la la la la la lo la reflector reflector reflector you're my mirror
posted by Lester Alfonso at 4:02 PM 3 comments
Beautiful. The image complements the song so well.
Michael “El Chingón” May 19, 2009 at 2:10 PM
Haunting and hypnotic. Beautiful.
Robin May 20, 2009 at 6:59 AM
Thanks for the comments! I forgot to mention in the blog that we rehearsed this and found that we only had about a half-hour window in which the sun hit the disco ball in a perfect way so we had to shoot the video within that time-frame… I just put up an old “emergency blanket” and stuck something to the camera that Georgia found at the thrift shop for free! One of those: just came together by itself and was a bonus that it “reflected” the song too. 🙂
Lester Alfonso May 20, 2009 at 7:59 PM